Coming back to life

It’s been almost three quarters of a year since my last post, and there’s really no excuse for not writing, at least for the last three months that have been the beginning of what looks like the most lazy and agenda-less year I’ve ever had. It’s been three months into fifth year and I won’t be able to answer what exactly I have been doing. There is no real agenda to any day except making the daily trip to the department at the godforsaken hour of 9:30 (Imagine waking up at 9:30 on a Sunday, and then remind yourself that in fifth year, every day is a Sunday), except when one realises that one hasn’t met the dear guide in a month and shouldn’t stretch it much longer. But somehow this ‘doing nothing’ begets more ‘doing nothing’. Once you’ve spent three hours crawled on your bed, munching chips, engrossed in watching ‘House of cards’ it’s almost impossible to do anything even remotely useful.

That’s just the last three months though and a lot has happened since December. There were 5 frenzied weeks of putting up TEDxIITRoorkee, a semester that was dominated by EDC – painful and memorable at the same time, the never ending stream of Farewells, a vacation in China, paid in full by the government of India, and coming back to an empty hostel and an empty campus. All of these deserve separate posts of their own, and the impending vella-ness might drive me to writing them. But that’s all talk and this is it for now. So long!