Holi

It looks like finally spring has come in Minneapolis. It took end of April for the momentous occasion. And we celebrated it with colours, playing Holi at the bank of Mississippi.
But as is infamous with Minnesota weather another snowstorm cannot be ruled out. In fact next week is not too exciting with sub zero forcasts.
Our weekly group meeting are moved to Monday. Very start of the week is to wind up everything. I think I liked the Friday ones better. You work all week, summarize it on Friday and get done with it. Now I get lazy in the week to do it and weekend takes the toll of my laziness.

NB - This is my 500th post on Blogger!!!

Blizzard

The semester is almost over and as usual Im already falling behind my personal goals.
Why is it that we are always behind our work targets? For once can it happen we are ahead on work schedule? I hope it does.

I think I need to organize myself more. Today morning I had to be in the class I am teaching and, can you believe it, I forgot. It was the same time as group meeting and I did not inform others about it. I don't know why I did it. It was pretty embarrassing situation. It was only after series of successive apologies that I was feeling less guilty.

Not to mention that I do maintain a calender. So let today be the day since when I started doing things on a daily schedule. And let tomorrow be the day since when I stopped giving up on it.

And tell you what. It is April 18. Eight'o clock in the evening. It is still some sunlight. And it is still snowing cats and dogs. We had a severe blizzard last one day. Too bad.

30 great opening lines in literature

Adapted from Telegraph article. Im listing down only the interesting ones. You can read full article at telegraph page.

--“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice (1813)

--'All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina (1878)

--‘It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.’

George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)

--"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth."

J.D Salinger: The Catcher In The Rye (1951)

--"In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. Whenever you feel like criticising any one, he told me, just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby (1925)

--“As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.”

Franz Kafka: Metamorphosis (1915)

--“The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.”

Samuel Beckett: Murphy (1938)

--"I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking."

Christopher Isherwood: Goodbye To Berlin (1939)

--"All this happened, more or less."

Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse Five (1969)