monday bleurgh

what a hopeless day monday is! especially at this time of the year, when fall is definitely over, and winter hasn't really kicked in as yet. got up around 11.. sank was ill so he didn't go in to work either. soon enough vip woke up and arul was back from school, so it was the boys at home on monday morning.. we made fried chicken for lunch, and then played cricket all afternoon.. then had that biomaterials class at 4.30.

i got probably what must be the least deserved 'A' in project abstract writing history!! then again, going by how i wrote it , no one should really be surprised either! the class itself was pretty interesting. we were discussing how there is legislation in place for registration of automobiles, but nothing similar for internal implants.. just by sheer volume you would think it would be so much easier! but then there you go, governments and insurance companies step in and make the waters even murkier. but you can imagine how much easier it would be for medical services if, say, an american man with a pacemaker goes to australia, and has a coronary; all the medics will have to do is pull out his driver's license, where he'd have his pacemaker number. they'd run it on the central database, pull out his complete implant history and other relevant complications etc, and go ahead and treat him. it does appear all this is some 10 years away still though.

was working from 6-8, then nats had called us over for a pasta dinner, which was as good as usual. had some 3 shots of rum and was great after that. you all remember the sea shanty from Robert Lewis Stevenson's 'Treasure Island' i hope:
"Fifteen men on a dead man’s chest
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum
Drink and the devil be done for the rest
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.."

dropped by 87M cos the new stock was in.. and it was good stock too! went to T's place too. now T is this good, cute, 'butter won't melt in his mouth' looking kid.. but he's a good and proper pothead too.. and has some very quirky habits about smoking up.. but we don't give him too much grief. it's so much easier to take KT's case! even snoop jumps in then! and shashi i wont even start with. he doesn't smoke, he doesn't drink, but he seems to have been charged with the divine duty of wrecking KT's thought processes and trips. he's really gonna get hit one day when he oversteps!!

came back home, and did some more of the medicinal shots.. i gotta say, the initial response we've been getting for our 'flu shot' has been awesome. there may really be a market for this! after that we woke arul.. and made shrimp masala, with sri lankan tea.. and i really wanna show you guys those pics here, but i'm posting this from work in the library, and i dont have the photos uploaded yet. as for work, don't even ask! it's 8 something right now.. and i'm on till 4.. and i slept at 4.. and my co-worker's not in either.. *sigh* it's gonna be a long haul..