Random Thoughts

This year was pretty random for me. It was stressful in parts and most enjoyable in others. I thought I'd make a list of some of the random things that happened  to me over the course of the year. 1. Started running regularly and ran a 5K with my lab-mates. But, also fell down a few times in broad daylight which was embarrassing. I'm blaming my old worn out shoes and the slippery roads. 2. Got stung by a bee and realized scratching the area simultaneously both relieves and worsens the itching. Ouch! 3. Played volleyball in the summer and got better at it. But, I still can't set. 4. Went for two conferences and realized that the bigger the conference, the lesser you learn and the fewer people you meet and actually have a meaningful conversation with. 5. Still don't like the taste of alcohol, but my palate's tolerance ranking goes something like this cider > wine >> beer and all hard liquor. 6. Didn't read as many novels as I would have liked...

Once in a while, you feel like writing all the nonsense thats going on in your head. That once in a while happens to be now, and this post is definitely going to live up to its title. The mind is so fickle. Some days you feel everything to be such a drab. You hate the weather no matter what. If its sunny, you think its too sunny and if its raining, you think its too gloomy. You hate the fact that you have to come to the same department, same lab every day. You hate the routine. You don't feel like waking up in the morning and wish it was saturday, so you could sleep for the entire day. You miss home terribly, but when you pick up your phone to make a call, you realize you don't really have anything to say unless you want to whine about everything in general, which is in fact stupid, and so you end up not calling. These are the days when you look at the half empty side of every single thing, and that too, for no apparent reason. On such days you scold yourself and get on with l...