Minus my friends

I need to refrain from updating my blog during my study time therefore I'm making this entry first thing in the morning. Last night I booked my return for home yet again, I know I still need to seek my supervisor's permission but I have deadlines in place and hopefully there wont be any problem whatsoever. You must be wondering why so soon already? There are quite a few reasons actually. Now the real challenge remains to be seen whether I am able to spend time constructively. Yesterday I wrote two pages, two freaking pages! This is going to be a difficult task. Because of the same I just couldn't sleep last night and when I finally did, I woke up within a span of three hours. The constant thought in my head tells me to get dressed and settle down in the library as soon as possible.

I happened to meet a long lost friend on campus yesterday. She is younger to me by four years but we get along fine. A gold medallist at the Masters level, she seems to have everything going for her until she took a zero semester due to illness, after which she completed her third semester with me and then again decided to drop the course. I feel its perfectly fine for her to do so. Why rush through degrees cluelessly? Her parents dont seem too happy though and she tells me the trigger was something personal. I didn't get into the details but I could tell that things have been bothering her lately, so much so that she even managed to give herself an impulsive haircut. It is all over the place now and she makes a desperate effort of hiding the same with the help of a hair band and tic tacs. I wish she would share her problem with me. I want to tell her it is absolutely alright to go through such a phase. A late night phone call with a friend confirmed that. Enough with the itinerary and schedules, sometimes we all need to take a break. My guess is that in a year or two she'll be attending some internationally renowned University. It is just a matter of time. Another friend in my course took a sabbatical after the first semester itself when she found out she was pregnant. I am yet to establish contact with her but seems like the second baby is keeping her busy for now. My two other Sikkimese batchmates have been home since September and are writing their thesis there itself.

The campus is almost empty with students returning home for the month long winter break. I like walking through desolate streets, eating in the dry canteen or being invited by an echoing corridor. We have an "All India Sociological Conference" next week and, as much as I'd ike to be a part of it, I am shying away. There is much that needs to be completed in a short span.