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It's been a fairly frustrating and unproductive week, and I've been looking forward to the weekend for so long and with such passion I can't even begin to explain. There's so many little non-work things I need to catch up on, many of them small-scale even by the fairly unambitious standards of non-work things. And I'm being slowly engulfed by the drying, crackling flames of burnout, which is particularly worrying. This holiday - even though it's going to be a lot less fun that I thought - could not have come at a better time.
Of course, one nice thing about a last-minute travel plan upset is I get to fiddle. How cool would it be to travel back to Almora? Or Nainital? Or even just Agra? This bears thinking - no, dreaming! - about.
Back in the uprightangled world, I need to somehow manage to work parts of my body right off, while avoiding burning out so I can redeliver myself to work in a seminormal state on Monday, while somehow also keeping up the vague shadow of a social life I've somehow managed to maintain over the last few weeks. Tricky, yes. Possible, well - there's really only one way to find out, isn't there.
Yeah. I'd bet against me, too.
Labels: burnout, frustration, weekend
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It's late, I'm sleepy, and I'm hoping to have a relatively early day tomorrow, so humour a lack of content in this post, please. In fact, I only write to note three things:
Alright, chaps, hitting the hay now. This is going to be a good weekend, since I'm going to get to go and check out that huge, green space I found last time, and hopefully take some photos to replace the ones I deleted (it's the same link as before, sorry!). I'm also going to go to Page One at VivoCity, so I get to buy my GRE Biology prep book (from Princeton Review, natch). Unless they don't have it, in which case I'll probably be running around town all day.
Alright, before Safari crashes again - good night, folks!
Labels: money, snake anthony, walking, weekend
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It's been a nice week. Lots (far too much) of rushing around, but good food (Subways; hey, it's better than prata!), good company, and very nice computer games. Also: room is nice, neighborhood is nicer, books - oh! books, I finally gave Ursula K. Le Guin a try, and can only regret I didn't try them earlier. Good stuff, that; science fiction in an old-school, Star Trek sense I really find interesting.
I, err, I think that might actually be all for now. Tomorrow: who knows? Hopefully, something exciting and productive, something which will generate me pictures to be putting online etc. In other words, oh God no computer games please oh please oh please please.
Silly Gaurav. Computer games are for weekends! So what are weekends for then, I wonder?
Labels: nice day, week, weekend
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I'll make this fast, because I've got to be to bed, there's work to be done and so on. 'Twas a nice weekend, watched 300 (the movie) with a whole bunch of friends, and their friends, and their friend's friends, and so on. For my money, it was one heck of a movie, beautiful visuals telling what is - at the end of the day - one heck of a story. Before the which, we had a fairly satisfactory, possibly final webadmin course, which was followed by a long and extremely pointless conversation, the type I seem to have fewer and fewer of each day (or perhaps I have so many pointless conversations at home that having some outside of here is a big thing).
I've (finally) started thinking about what to do, post June 2007. I have to schedule some time to just try different things this time, I just have to. I'm sorry. Computer programming and system administration-type stuff and all is nice enough, but there's gotta be something better than this. The nice thing is, even if the whole grad school thing gets underway, there's still a convenient gap between end-June (when my contract ends) and next year sometime, when I'll either get in or not.
What'll I do? I don't know, anything; anything, really, will do. Something I can wake up late for, that's for sure.
Labels: 300, crapping, movies, sleepy, weekend
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Is there anybody else who gets put off by the blatant collectivist attitudes in the new Jumping for Joy ad? (It's playing in all the buses and so on, but you can also see it online (it's called "Jumping for Joy"). One of the things I liked about the old Total Defense ads was their focus on "each person doing their part", and ... sigh. Never mind. I suppose one must keep in mind that there are downsides to living on this island, too.
Saw Half Nelson in the theatre, then EuroTrip. Finished my wine. Shiraz is fine, if little strong, but the taste is amazing.
I'm woke up at 3:30pm or so, which is a bit of a bummer. Means I'll have to do a lot of physical stuff to be able to get back to sleep on anything approaching normal time. Which probably means working on the family website is out of the question today, non?
Ah, well. Pehle snaan, baaki sab uske bad.
Labels: advertising, movies, today, weekend
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"A beach house," he said, "doesn't even have to be on the beach. Though the best ones are. We all like to congregate," he went on, "at boundary conditions". "Really?" said Arthur. "Where land meets water. Where earth meets air. Where body meets mind. Where space meets time. We like to be on one side, and look at the other."