holy melancholy

the year has started off very weirdly.. The Life Apathetic With Saurabh is mind-numbingly excruciatingly dull right about now.. maybe now i need to get Bill Murray to improve it! i think i'm slowly realising what life is gonna be like once i leave college, and let me tell you i'm gonna stretch that graduation date as far as possible!!

the last few days have been a grind.. open the library at 8 in the morning.. dull library work all day.. take two half-hour breaks in between to rush to the lab and prepare some experimental setups.. close library at 5, then after work back to the lab. by the time i get back home all i can think of is dying, until the next morning! food and drink can wait until the weekend!

it's interesting how my dream job has been changing over time.. when i was in high school all i ever wanted to do was fix cars. i just wanted to be in and around cars. one year working at a service workshop before i joined college and i knew that being a simple mechanic and service manager would be a very dead-end job.

but in college all the courses regarding automotive engineering were theoretical.. so my focus changed to automotive design engineering. day and night i pored over training manuals, service journals and other technical handbooks.. and took notes, on where and how i would be able to apply all that i learned.

well, with no scope of doing that in either kenya or india.. i landed in buffalo.. and immediately got into materials science, at which point i still hoped to be able to turn back to automotive engineering.. but that led to nanotechnology.. then i changed labs and came to biomaterials, and that was that for cars.

and now here i am working on biofilm formation in hydraulic situations, and my dream job now is in a lab somewhere, running experiments and getting data. pen-pushing has never been an option, and that hasn't changed yet.. but if tomorrow that's gonna pay for food, drink and clothing then that's what i'll do!! ;-))

'Fifty-two degrees at kickoff in Buffalo Jan. 2: Weird.' -
    Peter King, Monday Morning Quarterback, Sports Illustrated