Branches…

During one of my walks today (I get around everywhere walking around here), I had an idea that I’d like to experiment with on this blog. Rather than a mundane recollection of the day’s events and activities, I will take a random photograph on that very day, and attempt to make a metaphor from it in order to relate my day to you all. Not sure if it’s sustainable, or even makes for an interesting approach, but let’s give it a shot – comments are welcome (lol – that’s assuming I have a readership!).

Today was all about branches… more specifically, the social branches in my life. The social creatures that we are, our social contacts and networks are extensions of our lives. It wasn’t a highly productive or highly unproductive day, but I tended to some of my branches. Met up with a friend of mine who came down from Moncton, Sarah Singh. Had lunch together and caught up since we last met (over a month ago)… good lunch, great conversation! After that, it was off to Kumaran’s lab for an interview we had for SmartSkin (will explain that in another post someday). Met up with the rest of the team, shared some laughs, talked about ideas and the next steps we’re all working on. And last but not least, walked downtown for a coffee with Praveen – good friend of mine also doing his Master’s in Electrical Engineering here. A good long 2 hours of random chit chat, and made some plans for the rest of the summer as well.

Overall, a wonderfully enriching day – important to tend to these branches, or else they start withering away. Speaking of which, saw two of my friends while walking back after coffee – two people who I used to hang out with all the time during my early undergrad years, but now have lost touch for so long that it’s just “Hi – how are you? I’m fine, thanks. See you later".” now. Sad, but it happens I guess.

That’s all for today :). Hope the metaphor worked. What’s tomorrow going to be? Hopefully packed tight with hyper-productivity – need to really get in the flow of research work and get this thing going!

TODAY’S DIET: Fajitas (quite healthy actually), iced tea (sugar!!), black coffee, chicken salad sandwich (6” sub) and clam chowder soup. Bit expensive today, since it was all outside food… will have to make up for it on another day.