Was coming back from my department this morning. Vidya (my roomie) had told me that she will be sitting outside the faculty gates campaigning (as usual for more women’s hostels in the university). It is admission time so these guys did the additional work of helping new student who wish to apply for admissions … all sorts of things, how to fill forms, what courses are available, which college is where, how do sports people apply … I was supposed to meet the teacher again after he took the class so didn’t go back to the hostel and stood with Vidya and was soon talking to people who came asking questions. Amazing how people just came to our little desk, knew what we were there for and asked. How accommodating they were as we struggled with some questions…six years back I was filling these forms…man! 6 years!!

Met these two kids, they didn’t know anything…from Agra. Sat with them and am happy they met me…they applied J

My teacher came and we discussed what I have in mind…may be we can have something original in our rusty dept. … my teacher complained about the how difficult it is to actually arrive at conclusion, how difficult to put say anything concrete (I thought that when talking to the everyman you can say larger truths and make life easy for them, nothing is all perfect, all correct …lets put forward whatever we know and also stating what we do not know…u know).
There is this conference in Mysore Rs 500 crore sanctioned for work in our field. Not even 60 Indians who would have done/researched on anything worth it in the field…again he started off with how the big fishes are going to divide/fight over the money which is about to be sanctioned…he thought the sum was too big and instead they could give it to some NGO…until I mentioned the amount of money countries like China are spending on language expertise…
May be I will be able to pursue my dream, my idea…department though not a cradle for achievers yet, seems accommodating )

Have to go edit that book I left behind before going to Himachal…it is so cool to be back in the hostel, you can go about wearing your silly nothings, I go take a bath under the tap in any one of the bathrooms in whichever block I happen to be in and just go back to my room and change …it is sooo hot here, u never get enough of w a t e r. made banana shake for myself (had skipped lunch), got ice from the ice maker and then served it in small cups to 5 people …it just happened that I thought of people who would the cool drink more than I would…gave it chai wala guy who is there in the hostel (they also make great parathas), deepak at supplies store, gatekeeper, roomie and my senior J) ..these cooks at the canteen as they cooked parathas for me were amused by the fact that I made the shake for them ))…cute man at the canteen didn’t drink it straight away, kept it for a long while, finished all the work and then sat in a corner away from others to enjoy the drink…ice must have melted in it by the time he had it…

Lv

lab closes down, dinner time...they have cutlet and macroni for dinner today, soup and custard too hopefully