short week

yeah this is how mondays should be! woke up straight at noon.. thereby negating all possibilities of there being any work done in the lab. "why" i hear you ask? "well" my dear friends, "hundreds be the reasons!" but in a nutshell.. i have the lab keys now, and will get my building passkey tomorrow too, so i can actually go work at 3 am if i want :-)) not that there is much chance of that ever happening! besides, it was a monday! i don't do mondays. simple. i don't do wednesdays and fridays either, but don't let my advisor overhear that!! also, its Thanksgiving Week.. we're all giving thanks for what we have.. in my case, i'm giving thanks for what i don't have (red ferrari, completed MS thesis, blonde supermodel girlfriend, high-flying NYC research job, etc etc.. in no particular order either!)

i have discovered a great way to stay awake in class.. it involves a pinch of a herb called mary-jane and some tobacco, and any one of the following: a paper around 2.5" by 2" in size, a roll of card and a lighter.. OR an avocado, a matchbox and a snorkel.. OR a lump of coal, tin-foil and a gatorade bottle.. but on a more serious note, i've definitely been having much more fun when i'm in class stoned! not only does my advisor think i'm smart, now he knows i'm smart! talking of which, i think dr. baier was a bit of a fratboy-wildkid himself.. he keeps making references to things in class that you would not expect regular old-fogey profs to refer to.. just yesterday he was talking about how to distill the methanol out of grain alcohol and woodpolish to make drinkable alcohol!! then another time he mentioned how the surface of a titanium implant was so smooth and shiny that you could snort crack off it!! and yet another time he was telling us how medical grade silicon rubber is so pliable and soft that you could take a small piece and a roll a joint in it!! amazing!!

had my shift at the library at night till close, then mal and i went to Third Base for a drink, and dinner later at Lake Effect. passed by 87M after dropping her off.. and found that madan is back from india, and brought some 20 kilos of sweets back!! all kinds, shapes and sizes too!! so we watched the fourth day of the india - south africa test match.. smoked up, and absolutely pigged out on the sweets!! yum yum!! got back home and hung out, slept at around 5.30.. and now here i am in the library on opening shift again, as usual.. yaaawn!