सबसे पहले: नंदिनी मैम को उनके जन्मदिन की बहुत बहुत शुभकामनाएँ! आशा है कि उनका अबू ज़बी में मन लग रहा होगा।
ये अमरीकी और कुछ ना करें पर आपके लिए दरवाज़ा ज़रूर खोल के रखेंगे। कभी कभार तो ऐसा होता है कि बन्दा आपसे अच्छे खासे बीस कदम आगे चल रहा है और दरवाज़े तक पहुँचने के बाद उसे खोले आपकी प्रतीक्षा कर रहा है। यह भी नहीं कि आप उससे थोड़े ही पीछे आ रहे हैं और वह सही ढंग से आपके लिए दरवाज़ा पकड़े खड़ा हुआ है। यहां तो ऐसी बात है कि अगर बन्दे ने आपको एक बार बस देख लिया - चाहे आप एक मील दूर भी क्यों ना हो - तो वह गधे की तरह आपका इंतेज़ार करता रहेगा। अंत में आप ही बेचारे पर तरस खा कर अपनी चाल की गति बढ़ाएंगे। अच्छे खासे आचरण को दुराचरण में बदलना तो कोई इनसे सीखे।
In other news, this week has been incredible. Incredibly evil is what I mean. On Sunday night, I had a paper due. Monday was still OK, but on Tuesday, I had to pull a "9 to 9er". 12 hours of continuous work on Computer Science is not as much fun as I thought it would be. OK, so I didn't think it would be really all that much fun, but it seems really incredible that you did it once you do it. That's what happens when you have two problem sets due on the same day. On Wednesday night, it was the Maths problem set that was due the next morning, and this Multivariable Integration, along with Vector Fields and Line Integrals is really getting out of hand. I understand almost none of it, and it was equivalent to being asked to compose an elaborate article in Greek within 5 hours and being handed a "Greek for Dummies" book. Translation: bad times. Of course, the Maths problem set wasn't the only thing to worry about, because I had a Computer Science exam the next day as well, and if it weren't in the evening, I would have been dead. And not dead like "dead", but dead like Mozart. Fellow composed all his life, now he's sitting and decomposing.
Meanwhile, in a flawed "hoo haa" moment, I realized that Mozilla for Mac (including Firefox and even <gasp> Camino) does not have support for Devanagri text and it just shows up as ?????. That was a blow, I must say. I have to unfortunately go back to Safari just because I use Hindi so much. Bad times.
But, let the cheer not be drowned, for 'tis a three-day weekend now (thanks to Monday being "President's Day") and it's going to be good times once again. I love how a lot of the American holidays work. Instead of setting them as particular dates, they're like "Second Friday of May", so that you always get a three-day weekend and the ruinous and sad possibility of the holiday falling on a Sunday is eliminated. Of course, major stuff like Independence Day and Halloween are date-based.
I think I'll go and get myself a nice, warm burrito right about अभी.
Cheerio.
ये अमरीकी और कुछ ना करें पर आपके लिए दरवाज़ा ज़रूर खोल के रखेंगे। कभी कभार तो ऐसा होता है कि बन्दा आपसे अच्छे खासे बीस कदम आगे चल रहा है और दरवाज़े तक पहुँचने के बाद उसे खोले आपकी प्रतीक्षा कर रहा है। यह भी नहीं कि आप उससे थोड़े ही पीछे आ रहे हैं और वह सही ढंग से आपके लिए दरवाज़ा पकड़े खड़ा हुआ है। यहां तो ऐसी बात है कि अगर बन्दे ने आपको एक बार बस देख लिया - चाहे आप एक मील दूर भी क्यों ना हो - तो वह गधे की तरह आपका इंतेज़ार करता रहेगा। अंत में आप ही बेचारे पर तरस खा कर अपनी चाल की गति बढ़ाएंगे। अच्छे खासे आचरण को दुराचरण में बदलना तो कोई इनसे सीखे।
In other news, this week has been incredible. Incredibly evil is what I mean. On Sunday night, I had a paper due. Monday was still OK, but on Tuesday, I had to pull a "9 to 9er". 12 hours of continuous work on Computer Science is not as much fun as I thought it would be. OK, so I didn't think it would be really all that much fun, but it seems really incredible that you did it once you do it. That's what happens when you have two problem sets due on the same day. On Wednesday night, it was the Maths problem set that was due the next morning, and this Multivariable Integration, along with Vector Fields and Line Integrals is really getting out of hand. I understand almost none of it, and it was equivalent to being asked to compose an elaborate article in Greek within 5 hours and being handed a "Greek for Dummies" book. Translation: bad times. Of course, the Maths problem set wasn't the only thing to worry about, because I had a Computer Science exam the next day as well, and if it weren't in the evening, I would have been dead. And not dead like "dead", but dead like Mozart. Fellow composed all his life, now he's sitting and decomposing.
Meanwhile, in a flawed "hoo haa" moment, I realized that Mozilla for Mac (including Firefox and even <gasp> Camino) does not have support for Devanagri text and it just shows up as ?????. That was a blow, I must say. I have to unfortunately go back to Safari just because I use Hindi so much. Bad times.
But, let the cheer not be drowned, for 'tis a three-day weekend now (thanks to Monday being "President's Day") and it's going to be good times once again. I love how a lot of the American holidays work. Instead of setting them as particular dates, they're like "Second Friday of May", so that you always get a three-day weekend and the ruinous and sad possibility of the holiday falling on a Sunday is eliminated. Of course, major stuff like Independence Day and Halloween are date-based.
I think I'll go and get myself a nice, warm burrito right about अभी.
Cheerio.
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