Though my eggjams got over earlier on Thursday, I have been multitasking to get my Telecom term paper done and meet Lady J who was in town for a convention.
Later, on Friday, after the paper was done, I had to work towards Startegy paper. Saturday - I expected to have a marathon and we had only 10 am to 3 pm timing in which fair amount of work was put on paper. Earlier, we didn't note whatever we got - just discussed - some effort in putting it on paper at that time itself may have reduced the aogny and delay now. Anyways, it is a good lesson to have.
Sunday - I travelled with Lady J from Pittsburgh to Wilkes Barre. Lady J's father took us out for dinner and the Chinese food was delicious! So nice of him.
Monday morning, Lady J's grandma made fresh bread - I have never consumed anything like that. It was awesome. Then we travelled from Wilkes Barre to Hanover, New Hampshire. On our journey, I found some of the places exotic - Woodstock, (some red Indian name I dun remember), and a gorge. I saw Dartmouth campus that evening. At Lady J's place we saw DDLJ - she bought the DVD due to her Bollywood affinity.
Tuesday morning, I went from Hanover to NYC via Boston. I met my high school buddy Om after a very long time. Om and Preeti are such a cute couple. They are good hosts too!
Wednesday, I met some acquaintances in NYC till evening. Finally, I wound up in a Tavern with a trader friend from an investment bank.Late in the evening on Wednesday, I met Darshan and Mukul - my friends from undergrad college and now working for Goldman Sachs and engaged now.
They gave me a treat for their engagement - Kathi rolls - they were similar to Frankies and I took the Masala Aloo roll.
We hung around in Times Square a bit and then I took off. Meanwhile, in Brooklyn there was a fire in the subway and I was stuck on the other side. I shall blog one more post for details of NYC that I got to know this time.
Meanwhile, the Strategy term paper which was due on Aug 16th was allowed to be postponed to Aug 17th. I have working my ass off for the same since I used to have long days and then in the night I worked around the paper. 2 nights I have worked till 8:30 in the morning - O.M.G. - had we not postponed it - the agony would have been lesser.
On Friday evening, I shall leave for Boston to reach Adwait's place around midnight, if traffic doesn't delay the journey.
2 comments:
The red Indian place is/are the Adirondacks. You went through Lake George in the Adirondacks and the Quechee Gorge in Vermont before landing at the last college in "the colonies" to be incorporated under the hand of the British king. Phew. :-}
One more thing....
Lake George was named for Britain's King George II. It was George II's son, George III, who gave Dartmouth its royal charter as the ninth, and unbeknownst to him at the time, the last royal charter to be given to a college in the colonies.
Back to George II. In George II's Parliament was a man (the Prime Minister, in fact) named William Pitt. It is for this man that Pittsburgh was named in 1754 - 15 years before Dartmouth's charter and 21 years before the Battle of Lexington and Concord.
Neat, huh? :-)
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