good times

it's been an excellent day.. had a great night's sleep.. woke up at 9.. thought about the research paper that i had to submit today.. decided what had to be written.. then promptly rolled over and went back to sleep!! got up at 12.. had some leftovers from last night for breakfast.. sat down to write.. good thing i had already got my reference papers.. so read a bit, wrote a bit.. read a bit more.. wrote some more, and soon enough i had a research paper on 'PHB/PHV Copolymer Applications in Ophthalmology'!! :-)) as vip once said, the day after smoking up is always a very inspired one for writing!

was feeling particularly lively today, so i smoked up a small joint before the Polymeric Biomaterials class ;-)) it definitely helped too, cos' class was a bit morbid today.. dr. baier was talking about how the corporations and doctors have killed hundreds of people by using implants and stuff without adequately testing them. he showed us some slides that were gruesome, and was virtualling imploring us to go out into industry and try to make a change. he got pretty emotional when he talked about his failed efforts to change the 'get rich quick' system.. he was actually president of the World Biomaterials Conference! maybe i don't appreciate it enough, but this man who is my thesis advisor is also one of the top five biomaterials researchers in the world too!!

now here's one thing i would like to tell all, and i urge to tell everyone you know about this too.. if you have a temporomandibular joint (TMJ) problem, and a jaw-joint implant is suggested, DO NOT, i repeat, DO NOT get it done without seeking a second , unrelated opinion. way too many orthopedic and maxillofacial surgeons are suggesting these without adequate implant testing, and no health insurance package covers it either. there is no legislation for it since it slips into the cracks between the oral and orthopedic fields. go to the site for more information.

got back home (safely i might add ;-)), and we got some lamb today.. so i marinated it, and made jeera rice with lamb curry. i must say, it came out absolutely awesome.. it smelled just heavenly, and tasted even better.. food was so scrumptious that between sank, nats, vip, arul and i, we demolished some 3 lbs. of lamb!! yeeha!! gaurav dropped by in the evening too.. and we opened vipul's graduation gift too.. a bottle of Johnny Walker scotch! we then watched our favourite western "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" and M*A*S*H and rounded off a perfectly excellent day! :-))

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