Time o Time, where art thou?

Alright, seriously really I want to write. Like every evening I tell myself that I am going to post something on the blog. But, well the time's they are a changing for sure and I do not seem to have a lot of time in hand. I hate it, I hate it, I-Hate_It. But, alas! Okay, going out now. Hopefully will write some during the break!!! 

Plans and no plans

I have planned write-ups but I have not planned my schedule well it seems. Hence, the delay in a new post. I will be back and soon and with a lot of vengeance. Bear with me. It has been pretty crazy and it seems things are only going to get crazier. Papers and presentations, quizzes and readings. It is all getting piled high and deep. This business of graduate study is pretty fucking mind-numbing. And I shall leave on that note and will be back soon. 

And here I am...

Blogging is a fucking serious commitment. I mean writing in general is. And boy I am a serious commitment phobe! So, well I took a break. I admit it was a rather long one (well, what am I saying, before I started two articles earlier I had taken a fucking two year break). Alright, I am making no sense whatsoever. So, what I did since I reported our crazy Atlanta trip from two weeks ago. I wrote a bunch of abstracts, saw my bank balance dip to scary lows, cooked some food, attended some classes and presented a paper at a conference. 
I also just finished proposing a full panel to a national conference. Boy, that was a fucking awesome power trip. Graduate students and professors responding to my email were actually sending me their abstracts and I had complete authority to retain or knock them off the boat. I felt like fucking Noah man! Going through and selecting the species of academics that I was most interested in. Anyway, like Noah, I found a place for everyone on my boat. I am essentially a good person, you see (gawd, this is a narcissist on steroids!). 

So, the conference I went to. It was a tiny thing. A day after Fall Break. So, there were more presenters than attendees. I had wanted my pack to be there. But one was out of town, two forgot and three was just lazy (well he claims to have been productive, but the fucker did not come to listen to my paper). I presented on Colbert and Stewart, threw in a little Hazare there as well, but the Americans obviously ignored it. 
The audience got talking and I felt I had kinda done my job. The evening ended with a rather wonderful Hilsa festival, some alcohol and a trip downtown to watch Halloween madness. We missed the real crazy but the troop came back home with me and that was fun. 

It is going to be crazy through the next few weeks. I can already foresee that. Papers to be written, applications to be filled out, brain to be wrapped around things that are best left unwrapped. I have promised myself a good semester and now I need to make sure that it all ends well because as they say (heck, we all say it) All's well that Ends Well. Endings have bothered me always. And I want that to change. For once, I really do. I am getting along well with this new apartment. It has worked wonders for my work ethic, my productivity etc. It is nice and close enough to the building that I can walk to most places that I need to. I still use the occasional ride, but as far as classes and other university commitments (i.e which requires being on campus) go, I am fairly independent. And that is awesome. The walk twice a day is also doing me a world of good. I fit better into some of my clothes and not so well into others. Losing weight, like everything else, has both good and bad sides to it. I also like my new flatmate a lot. I adored my former flatmates as well. But, they were poles apart from me in outlook and also in their academic disciplines and endeavors. Although that never created any serious confrontations, now that I think about it, it frustrated me. Not being able to discuss the vast quantity of shit that you are trying to process in your pea sized brain can be a tad frustrating, I guess. Also being disconnected and in the middle of the woods was well kinda nice but kinda isolating. Someone always needed to fetch and drop me. I was a bother for friends with cars and now that situation is largely avoided. A pleasant consequence, I would say. 
Well, I guess so much for now. I need to run a few errands before I start wrapping my brain around myriad things again. I do plan to start on all the endings that are due at the end of the semester and that most certainly far easily said than done. But, before I go. I would like to share some crazy work that I came up with while in a class, I was naturally a little bored and not involved with the direction. The original being in Bengali a translation will be offered. 



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A quick look into my insanity, enjoy while you are allowed! Chao!!!