Formalities completed on my end

Well, today, the day began as usual for me at noon. Got information about Stamp Papers and Notaries. Got ready, had a quick breakfast, and I was on the fly. Had already prepared the Agreement to be executed between RRCAT and myself on the previous night so just got things in place and I was done in about 1 1/2 hours. Returned back around 3 pm and then completed some other supplemental formalities for the RRCAT security and administration. Needless to mention, I do not like to do all this, it is an inexpensive wastage of time. Nevertheless, I may also mention what one of the trainees at RRCAT told me, it will take you five days to get these formalities done, and here I was "done" is less than two-hours, :) Finally, I will be visiting them coming Mon for finalization of everything!

Not a part of this Blog: Then, I still felt very tired as if I hadn't slept at all. Tried to work on one of my "mammoth" assignments. Typesetting sure was beautiful, :) though my head certainly did not feel great about it, :)

Project on Laser Plasma Interactions has been "Approved!!" at RRCAT, India

After a long wait, I finally got my "Confirmation Letter" today! Am I happy? Yeah, I am on "Cloud # 10!", :-)

Well, the last many months have been more exciting than ever before. As for the last few weeks, I wouldn't say, very good in the "sleep" sense but sure I loved them. Just the only bit of trouble being that I could not even peacefully take a short nap or sleep long enough to feel fresh again. Every time I tried to lie down and close my eyes, I was back in LBL, Berkeley or RRCAT, Indore and started thinking about lasers and plasma wakefield accelerators. Insane you may call it, I wouldn't beg to differ, :-) My roommate sure would have comments to offer, lol! And the worst, I had exams during this time and a lot of work. And this "sleep-mess" wasn't all that nice a thing considering the importance of all the other stuff I was upto. Anyway, I still don't have a clue how to get over this, any ideas?

Finally, I was away for shopping late in the evening. While returning back, I got "some" bananas for myself but then I felt why not take some for the inmates (lol!) in my hostel who have known me and been nice to me over the last 1 1/2 year. So, I took another two-dozen, went to a Hanuman Temple and offered the same to God for blessings. You may be wondering its a rather weird choice for "prasad" but I felt that both the deity and myself shared a common liking for bananas and sure they are healthy, so why not! :-) After being blessed, the young priest returned them to me, there was a friend of his there, I offered him one, the priest another (why not after all!), and a dog which I wouldn't know if he/she would eat but I tried to offer nevertheless after the priest said it would eat it. But you know what, he/she walked right next to me as if asking for the blessed-banana. When I gave it to him/her, he/she would still follow me since I had the bags that contained the prasad in my hands: I felt confused what he/she wanted(!), only to understand that I don't quite understand dogs, lol! Then, while I wore my shoes, I felt maybe it didn't consume the banana as it was wrapped in the yellow casing, :-) So, I washed my hands and peeled the banana like a monkey, :-) Offered the same to the little one as is he/she were a kid, lol! Someone should have captured me doing that (was kinda cute!). Finally, offered the blessing to many of my favourite inmates! Some of them as usual were curious as to from which God's Temple is the prasad from. Well, I didn't like the question in the first instance but then I thought, why does it really matter. I told them, God is everywhere and also that it doesn't really matter from which Temple I got the prasad from but that if "God was present there while the priest was trying hard to get the bananas blessed". Thanks! :-)

Behind the scenes: I did not know if I could offer bananas to Hanuman ji! Clarified the same from his friend who didn't know either, :-) The priest said a yes though! Then, after a while he (the priest) "finally" asked me if I were new in the hostel. No, I have been there for a year and a half! You should have see the look on his face, :-) I told him, its my first time visiting the Temple. I may avoid mentioning I pass it every day a couple of times at least and it is around a 120 m from my hostel! Do you still have any questions about my happiness? :-)