More than a month without a blog post and here I am with my confessions. I haven't been focusing on work lately since returning from India trip. Always the hangover of visit back home. I got to see a lot of friends in Bangalore. And also an 'arranged date' (as I like to call it) which was unfruitful for most part.
I think I need to pickup research more seriously sooner than later. After the oral prelims exam I am closer to finish line of PhD. It would be fair to say I'm more than half way through. Although I can't say I can see the line but there is a realization that, like the Earth, the Sun and the Universe, it exists.
Minnesotan summer has arrived and green is the color of outside now. This is the beginning of short window when you can go outside without an outerwear jacket or stuff. This is also the season I am most physically active. I already made a lot of summer travel plans and, admittedly, have been over-occupied with them. There are more trivia that I have been wasting time on. This needs to stop! It's time to
On another note I read a particularly shallow and sexist article on The Hindu which, I think, was not worthy of The Hindu and bringing its standards down. These are the stuff more suited for additional page 3 in Times of India or other tabloid-under-cover.
http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/society/tch-tch-tch-these-indian-men/article7137930.ece
I think I need to pickup research more seriously sooner than later. After the oral prelims exam I am closer to finish line of PhD. It would be fair to say I'm more than half way through. Although I can't say I can see the line but there is a realization that, like the Earth, the Sun and the Universe, it exists.
Minnesotan summer has arrived and green is the color of outside now. This is the beginning of short window when you can go outside without an outerwear jacket or stuff. This is also the season I am most physically active. I already made a lot of summer travel plans and, admittedly, have been over-occupied with them. There are more trivia that I have been wasting time on. This needs to stop! It's time to
On another note I read a particularly shallow and sexist article on The Hindu which, I think, was not worthy of The Hindu and bringing its standards down. These are the stuff more suited for additional page 3 in Times of India or other tabloid-under-cover.
http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/society/tch-tch-tch-these-indian-men/article7137930.ece