A self-confessed desi

Blogging has become my favorite procrastinating activity.

Stop me someone - before I indulge myself in yet another piece of revelation, occurring ever so often in my life!

Ah! here it comes - someone said hi to me on gtalk! Don't you just love it when you're desperately bored and have so much work pending that thinking about it makes your head hurt - and then someone reaches out to you! And you would never be happier to see this person online - you may generally hide yourself at the slightest intuition of his/her name appearing in the online list - but now, when you can't feel your head or anything inside it, this person is a god-sent!

So I got my very own locker today. Yes well most people here have had lockers in high-school - they realize it's usefulness - but also don't think of it as a very big deal. And I, on the other hand, jumped when I saw the offer lying dormant in my inbox this morning. As I read the words, "Grad students need to contact XYZ for their LOCKERS...", I knew it then. I got a strong feeling pushing me to XYZ's office. It was the kind of strong feeling I get at crucial moments in my life, the feeling that I call God. Yes, yes - dramatic I am - thanks to my mother :) But its true - I got that special feeling and I went - and guess what - I got the one last locker that was left for Grad students! I felt so lucky and proud for listening to my strong feeling!

The point is - I have a locker! Of course it is dirty, it is on the bottom row and opening the damn thing is next only to rocket science - yet, I own it - at least for the next 10 months! And it is free! FREE OF COST! What a wonderful thing! Just like the donut I had in my Spanish class today! Yes! La profesora got us boxes full of donuts! So sweet - both la profesora y donuts! But the donuts are really cheap - and the profesora is giving us a test tomorrow - which is one of the causes of my horrible headache and reasons for my procrastinating post - so profesora is mean (not really) - but I love her non-funny jokes about her own life! She reminds me of me minus the humour!

Here's a lemoade toast to today - oh I also got two free books! Can you imagine! Two books and a locker - all free - all in one single day! One is my friend's own book and he gave me an autographed copy - this after my obvious email asking him how I can "get" a copy - and his reply with the amazon link to the book!! :( !! So his book is based on his personal experiences of schizophrenia and bi-polar disorder - definitely not on my holiday reading list! The other book is a cool practical guide with film equipment renting, film processing and location advertisements from all over US.

Okay so I'm feeling better now - after a badly made lemonade, some gossip and giggles with my friend V (our nightly ritual - as we wait for our free bus ride home) and the recurrence of the word "free" today. What is it with desis and free stuff! :-/