Of cupcakes and cancelled classes

Exciting night - at least for my loser-self!

I tread out Sunday evening to attend a not-so-important evening with a bag full of goodies. I carry everything I could possibly need to study between 7pm and 11pm. It's only nine when I realize I didn't eat anything and will not be able to do anything productive without food (not that I had done anything productive till then - apart from contributing in the meeting with my brilliant idea of buying a fancy dress and returning it the next day after the shoot so that the director could stay within budget).

Then I go food hunting with my friend Aki. He's quite strange sometimes. But he has reason to be. He just found out that his sis-in-law back in India passed away. And he has a month old baby back home who he has never met. Anyways, so he's hungry and I'm hungry and both of us are not thinking right (for our own reasons - mine being HUNGER). So we check out two eating places on campus on opposite sides - and both are closed! So I decide to go to the mall with the free bus and then go home from the mall - and Aki decides to go home and eat.

Stupid me realizes after getting on to the bus that there is no bus from the mall to home at this hour on Sundays. I am panic-stricken with the thought of taking a taxi home. The bus I am on stops at another eating place far away on campus. I see its open and has food - and I jump off! I get in and buy some nice chocolate cookies - and on the phone with roomie R try to figure out how to get to the other side of the campus to take the last bus home. He gives me the bus timings but it's still far away and don't feel like walking all the way. I look around and spot a couple of Public Safety cars doing the rounds. I reluctantly walk up to one and ask the lady police officer if she could give me a ride to the bus stop. And she says yes! So I sit in the back of this police car - wondering who else sat here before me - and when we reach the stop and I try to get off, the door doesn't open - Duh! The police officer comes out to open the door for me. I feel good about taking her help instead of risking the walk. I felt safe and taken care of - sweet :)


That reminds me - this film I'm DPing (director of photography-ing) needs me to shoot cupcakes and so I have do some research about lighting food. I came across many photographs that made me drool - but this one reminded me of my blog :)

Another cool thing that happened was that finally I got an email from a professor cancelling a class! I haven't had a single class cancelled till now despite adverse conditions. But this one happens to be my favorite class - Spanish! And the reason is my professor's husband has a surgery - which isn't very nice too. So I guess it's better to not have any classes cancelled :(