the lull before the storm?

so i turn in a fairly decent draft of my thesis to JSL a whole 73 pages including figures and what not. that was friday afternoon. holding those freshly printed pages felt somewhat like a new parent holds his/ her first born. gues the effort showed somewhere finaly. oh well, lets not cross the bridge before we even get to it. but what the heck, i said, i should treat myself to some long-term (u know the 8 hour kinds) sleep. never quite did that until friday night anyways. had a brief political discussions sesion with Rich in the afternoon, this time it was about the seven sins that humans can ( or do) commit. lust sloth greed gluttony pride anger envy (not necesarily in any order). SUV (or rather SUV driver) bashing is never far especially since both of us have sarcasm to dole out for free , ALWAYS!
he's the Green party peace activist, need i say more? a revolutionary of sorts, i admire his courage to speak out against whatever he thinks to be unfair. ok, back to the topic. so friday night ( and evening - a brief 3 -hr nap from 6 to 9pm) led to saturday's sloth. lunch time just rolls by on such days . hung around with pals at an 'all u can eat' chinese place. didnt quite do justice as i normally do, maybe it was the food ( or the lack of it in the containers) that put me off. each hour i kept pinching myself, dude, u havent defended ure thing succesfully yet, so why this 'ahh! i need a break' attitude? just looked around to find that each one on that lunch table had not any deadline as pressing as mine ( thursday at 10 !) and yet i seemed the most at place with no hurry whatsover. maybe it is the lull b4 the storm, hope it just doesnt blow me away....hee hee

so got back and eventually got to emrl 201..wunder how many more days i can work there? did some extempo fotography of the flower beds close to the library on my way up to the labs.

anyways, now i feel rested enough, if ever that was my reason for slacking away for the past 36 hours now. now i got to read eatough et al's take on PM pollution along the wasatch front, they of course were well endowed to carry out numerous experiments unlike us.

during my brief honemoon, i also managed to read the usual big names in indian media TOI, I-express. some good stuff wrt our new PM.

i particularly liked when SWAMINATHAN S ANKLESARIA AIYAR (A secular triumph after all )asked if it was possible for an american arab to get to a top position in the US govt..he was maybe trying to comapre the case of how sikhs were just 20 yrs ago the target of some vicious and horrible backlash in some parts of the country after Mrs G's assasination. and the then Congress wasnt all that uninvoled in that sad episode.

also chindanand mentioned here (From feel good to feel better ): a quote from a US daily : "While more than 100,000 American and other troops were splashing around Iraq ostensibly to create a democracy...a Hindu-Muslim nation of more than one billion people was actually committing democracy."
just renews some faith, not that i had lost it , mind u!

just more pleased to be an indian when people come up and ask about the elections and its nevr expected results.