baubles

Just like there isn't any One problem to haunt all of our days.

There also isn't One solution to convert our troubles into wisps of ether.

You know what I miss?

I miss knowing with certainty that 

things are as they appear, 

people do what they say they will and

that some feelings are never outgrown.

I want so much more than soup and a good book now. Now, that is scary.

The call of maya, but in a different way.

All my love.

Me likey MEeeee-Taaimeeee

Read a bit of Joseph Andrews.

Heard a wee bit of music.

Watched some TV.

Zipped through 2 movies (yes, different from TV)

Played a lot of Farmville.

Spoke on the phone.

Texted.

L.A.Z.E.D

Lay on my back and just 'was'.

Today was good, as days go.

:)

PSST- Started neeeeew blog, The Seeker

Feel free to check it out in a few days.

mucho love 

"xxxx"

(apparently this is okay-ed by the human censor for appropriate social interaction.)

My eyes ache

Back hurts

and I'm waiting for a miracle.

What intense moment am i supposed to 'grow up' by the way?

Because I've been here a while and all i see are my toe nails... growing.

*sigh*

A Tale of (Mis)Conception(s)

A feminist isn't someone who refuses to wear bras.
A feminist isn't a man hater.
A feminist does not believe waxing is a sin.
A feminist does not attack domestic life.
A feminist isn't aggressive/violent or a risk taker.
A feminist will not drive alone at 2 am to prove a point of 'independence'.
A feminist does not believe 'If a man can do it, I can do it better'.
A feminist does not compete with men.
A feminist doesn't have to be a female.

A feminist is a person who believes that each sex is born equal and what is owed to each sex, is the courtesy of equal respect.

I am a feminist and I'm not ashamed to be one.

Saying Grace

If you let it, Google can be your therapist/doctor/tutor and more.

What I'm personally intrigued by is the sheer NUMBER of people who have the same Issue.

What's more fascinating?

Its the emotional aspect that resounds in a million people all over the globe. Personal dilemmas strung into uncannily similar sentences.

I wonder how they each overcome it (do they?)

Do they lie? (in anonymous question-answer forums?)

I wonder if they laugh about it 'later' (is there a 'later'?)

What makes one connect so completely to one thin slice of a random strangers life?

A hand picked version of reality up for display.

A biased taste.

A representation swung wildly about by moods.

Is it out of this, that art is born?

Rising from the muck like the quintessential cinderella-lotus?

The unfortunate giving birth to the beautiful?

An ache soothing the pain of others?

Nearly four years into 'academics' and the questions gets prettier..

while the answers simmer just out of sight.

May God Bless Us All Everyone.

ice-cream. you-scream.

The thing is, in life... relationships get complicated.

They can never be shaped smoothly to fit a plastic cup.

No little white spoon exists to mould that particular blob of chocolate ice-cream into a less bumpy surface.

Each life creates its own web.

Some webs we're born into. Some prejudices in the midst of which we grow up. And others, others we own... invent... welcome into our own life.

Each relation, never just one single emotion.

Its our opinion, expectation and experience tightly tangled together.

So messy, we can't begin to take it apart.

So what is the 'cure' for all these overlapping melodies?

The bhajan with beethoven with just a hint of ginger.

At what string do we tug?

To unravel it fastest?

With the least possible harm?

and when life is a bunch of strings pulled apart.

what do we do next?

knit another garment?

Only, now.. knowingly? Are we prepared even?

Can someone ask for an answer if the question is ill formed?

Live Wires.

Live bouncing unpredictable wires.

Held in place, just long enough to believe the illusion.

Academically, today was a good day

-Got something i wanted, so now 6 months of recognized research. YAY!

-Bunked the last 3 classes to celebrate aforementioned

-Had a sweet lime soda+one paneer shawarma+some chilly potatoes+2 onion rings

(wasn't a good day for the diet...)

-Attended a surprisingly good poetry reading seminar

-Submitted my work for the wall magazine *grin*

So all-in-all, a decent day.

Now, tomorrow is a test on Webster and I...

I am going to dig into the october issue of Cosmo.

Every girl has her weak moments.

:)

ps- got to start my 'serious' writing soon.

that and 'serious' reading.

plus, Masters oriented 'serious' writing.

but for now, back to the glossy :P