Category: General

First post from here. 8)

I finally made it here yesterday after more than a day of travel. It was boringly long. Not in a very expressive frame of mind right now, but have fought all jet lag and done a lot of stuff at the campus today. I am now a registered student at the U of M (with a cool ID card and everything). My apartment seems decent (from outside) and the people everywhere seem insanely friendly. They are also very active. It is cool. People are nice. It is cool (oh, am I repeating myself?).

I have been wasting my life not living in a university town. More when my fingers are ready for it.

I’m leaving home tomorrow. This will probably be the last article/post/anything I type from this computer. It’s weird. I’m flooded with mixed emotions, ranging from excited to scared. Actually, I’m more leaning towards ‘scared’.

A week back or something, it was almost nothing. I didn’t feel anything at all. Then it slowly set in, the reality of things. New country, culture, education, responsibities.. and I’ve never really done anything on my own. What are parents for? :D

But, like they say, that’s got to change some time.

And my packing’s actually started :P. Now it does seem like I’m going to finish on time. Not much really, a few clothes, and books, and more books and some more and more and more..

I never realised I liked some of my books so much. Starting from obscure all tattered physics books from school. Will I use them all? Probably not. Will I feel better having them with me? Yes, I do. Atleast I know them, they’re familiar. Nothing better than a good physics book to curl up to when the ‘real world’ seems too much to handle. Calling me a geek? I can’t hear you, I’m curled up somewhere reading.

I would also have to classify today as ‘Phone Day’ (Unless tomorrow turns out to be even more ringey of course). I’ve never got so many phone calls from people in my life. And some from people I barely know. hmm..

Not keeping in touch with other people regarding this whole education scenario does have a few pluses. Primarily I’m less tense (you know, the whole ‘ignorance is bliss’ scene). I’ve still managed to be a tad free thinkery and my finance related stuff have seemingly sorted themselves out in a decent manner. On the downside, I don’t know who else is travelling tomorrow on the same flight(s) as mine.

But.. Do I care? I think not.

There are too many ‘what ifs’. I don’t consider myself to be a very positive person and sadly, the answers to some of those questions plain scare me. So, rather than stay up this late and scare myself, I’d rather sleep. Tomorrow’s the big day.

11th August 2002 :: The day pundit leaves home.

(Using my name and referring to myself in the third person for effect.)

I’ve maintained sites and journals piecewise continuously since the end of high school. Which in real life time units would be somewhere around 1997-98 or so. Most of the earlier stuff has not been backed up. The reasons for this vary from:

technical things – in the dark ages, when pages were static HTML and had to be updated the hard way, things were generally messy, and not saved often enough

to just as important,

social things – I believe it is better I spare you the cheesy flashbacks (you know, when people tAlkeD l1KE tHI5 and used :) :( :P :D indiscriminately?).

I am sure you can have all the fun you want going through what is up. Plus, I am quite sure wading through 7+ years of archives will be more than a bit of a bother. If you’re still insanely curious about events not archived here, contact me. I just might not scream, but I am pretty sure I’d have forgotten.