mundane stuff in my life right now
its about 12 in the night, been trying to sleep for more than a hour. haven't been able to sleep well for the past 2 nights because of this cough i've had. so today while i sip this hot honey water i just made for myself, think for a change i will blog about the mundane things going on in my life.
hmmm... firstly i've had this mild fever, pain in my throat, dry cough (without any phlegm) and slight body-ache since sunday morning. its strange - i never had this before. i usually get a throat infection with lots of phlegm, the throat is my weak point. this time the cough is not bad, its very sporadic so i've been able to still go to lab and do my experiments. today in my math class at 2, just some 10 mintues into the class i suddenly had this coughing fit, i just couldn't stop coughing and my throat felt really bad. i distinctly felt like something in the room was irritating my throat. or maybe it was the class itself. so i decided to just walk out of the class. initially i thought i'll come back but then decided against that - it was anyway a very boring class. so i went and got these halls lemon-honey candies. i then had the brain-wave to go to the library and get some dvds for this weekend. so i went and got "indochine" and "moonstruck" - couldn't find any better ones, and also a novel "the moon is a harsh mistress" by robert heinlein. i haven't been in the novel reading mode for sometime now, but thought let me see if i can go back to reading, since i've got nothing better to do at home nowadays.
so anyway my mom called me some time ago and enquired about my health. and she told me to have hot milk with pepper before going to sleep and that will help me sleep. and also after that my good friend satt (read - the only really close one) called me up and told me the recipes for some "n" ayurvedic home remedies and it turned out that i didn't have all the ingredients for any of them at home. after his call i went to make some milk with pepper and found that we were out of milk. so i had to settle for hot water with honey.
also while writing this i am listening to songs from illayaraja's new tamil movie "twinkle twinkle little star". i think that maestro illayaraja is the greatest composer to ever set foot on earth. this album of his reminds of his 90s hit anjali.
tonight i made palak paneer for dinner. it came out pretty good. my roomie initially helped me out by cutting the onions and stuff, but then he went to see the latest smallville episode where lana becomes a vampire. my only crib was that i had to eat the curry with tortillas, which are not a personal favorite of mine. i could have made some rice, but felt lazy to do that for some reason.
hmmm.... what else - on the research front, i got to use the vacuum chamber this week after a gap of about 2 weeks - my lab-mate was using it then. i will done with my current set of experiments tomorrow and on the weekend can arrange all the data i've obtained till now. and think i can then start analyzing the data and try to write a paper. am kind of pleased since it will be my first publication. and it is coming after about 4 months into my research (with only about 3 weeks of actual experiments).
i've noticed that when i'm not doing any of my actual experiments, my work in the lab is pretty unproductive. its like i don't seem to accomplish anything at all. like in the 2 weeks when i couldn't do my experiments i don't know how i passed that time without actually doing anything of value. heh, but i'm no particular hurry to complete my phd, i tend to allow things to take their own sweet time.
oh ya i just learnt today in the evening that i cleared the 2 written tests (a policy test and a log test) for wrpi. wrpi is this local university radio station. now all i've to do is clear the practical exam and then i'll be cleared to host a show on my own. that reminds me that i skipped both the karate classes this week, because of this cold. maybe i'll try to make it for tomorrow's class and try to catch up on the stuff i missed.
hmm... the remaining honey water is cold by now. so guess thats an indication that i should stop writing.
hmmm... firstly i've had this mild fever, pain in my throat, dry cough (without any phlegm) and slight body-ache since sunday morning. its strange - i never had this before. i usually get a throat infection with lots of phlegm, the throat is my weak point. this time the cough is not bad, its very sporadic so i've been able to still go to lab and do my experiments. today in my math class at 2, just some 10 mintues into the class i suddenly had this coughing fit, i just couldn't stop coughing and my throat felt really bad. i distinctly felt like something in the room was irritating my throat. or maybe it was the class itself. so i decided to just walk out of the class. initially i thought i'll come back but then decided against that - it was anyway a very boring class. so i went and got these halls lemon-honey candies. i then had the brain-wave to go to the library and get some dvds for this weekend. so i went and got "indochine" and "moonstruck" - couldn't find any better ones, and also a novel "the moon is a harsh mistress" by robert heinlein. i haven't been in the novel reading mode for sometime now, but thought let me see if i can go back to reading, since i've got nothing better to do at home nowadays.
so anyway my mom called me some time ago and enquired about my health. and she told me to have hot milk with pepper before going to sleep and that will help me sleep. and also after that my good friend satt (read - the only really close one) called me up and told me the recipes for some "n" ayurvedic home remedies and it turned out that i didn't have all the ingredients for any of them at home. after his call i went to make some milk with pepper and found that we were out of milk. so i had to settle for hot water with honey.
also while writing this i am listening to songs from illayaraja's new tamil movie "twinkle twinkle little star". i think that maestro illayaraja is the greatest composer to ever set foot on earth. this album of his reminds of his 90s hit anjali.
tonight i made palak paneer for dinner. it came out pretty good. my roomie initially helped me out by cutting the onions and stuff, but then he went to see the latest smallville episode where lana becomes a vampire. my only crib was that i had to eat the curry with tortillas, which are not a personal favorite of mine. i could have made some rice, but felt lazy to do that for some reason.
hmmm.... what else - on the research front, i got to use the vacuum chamber this week after a gap of about 2 weeks - my lab-mate was using it then. i will done with my current set of experiments tomorrow and on the weekend can arrange all the data i've obtained till now. and think i can then start analyzing the data and try to write a paper. am kind of pleased since it will be my first publication. and it is coming after about 4 months into my research (with only about 3 weeks of actual experiments).
i've noticed that when i'm not doing any of my actual experiments, my work in the lab is pretty unproductive. its like i don't seem to accomplish anything at all. like in the 2 weeks when i couldn't do my experiments i don't know how i passed that time without actually doing anything of value. heh, but i'm no particular hurry to complete my phd, i tend to allow things to take their own sweet time.
oh ya i just learnt today in the evening that i cleared the 2 written tests (a policy test and a log test) for wrpi. wrpi is this local university radio station. now all i've to do is clear the practical exam and then i'll be cleared to host a show on my own. that reminds me that i skipped both the karate classes this week, because of this cold. maybe i'll try to make it for tomorrow's class and try to catch up on the stuff i missed.
hmm... the remaining honey water is cold by now. so guess thats an indication that i should stop writing.
posted by teks at 12:38 AM
3 Comments:
you could also have honey in warm milk - people do that, but i don't like how it tastes... you could try tho..
i love palak paneer!!! :) yeah, wuould have been nicer with rice. the tortilla chips were probably not the best idea for an already irritated throat.
yay on passing the tests!! :)
ya guess milk would have worked too, but no milk at home. so today i can't have my daily morning cereals. :(
they weren't tortilla chips but flour tortillas used in wraps and stuff.
oops. heh. for some reason i thought you had milk but no pepper. no idea how i got that impression.
oh good then no harm done if it was flour tortillas and not tortilla chips.. :)
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