Back again

Its been ages since i wrote something, anything and decided I would break my stubborn vow to stay away from sharing my thoughts embarassing moments and blah blah with anyone who would care to read. So here I go again....

Finally I decided to attend that talk on nano something, partly out of urge to please my advisor and partly out of getting to do something really constructive to my knowledge gaining process. So I headed out that cold afternoon to the McMillan Hall where the talk was supposedly being organised ( I had double checked with the office secretary the very same day). Being the winter break, only those previledged few could enter the building who really worked or so to say procastinated there. So there I stood waiting for someone to come and invite me in or if I can say push me in. The only thought in my mind at that very instant was that I had to get my coffee and it was almost time for the talk to start. so I made this little promise to myself that if no one would come to let me in , in another 5 minutes I would happily head to starbucks and say bye bye to the talk.

But nothing happens in this cruel world to make you happy, so this little chineese students group come and call their friend to open up the door, seemed they too didnt have access and they were heading to the same talk. So I grudgingly stepped inside the welcoming warmth of the building and reluctantly trotted behind these people to the hall. I was seated and the speaker was introduced and she started bragging about some nano scaffolds using biological cells or was it some nano circuits with biological scaffolding , whatever! I was like what the hell has this talk got to do with me as it was not making sense to me, of course it involved nano but nothing of the sort I work on , nothing at all remotely related to my work, she was a Dr Blum and I vaguely remember mentioning a Prof Blum or was it Prof Bloome, Oh Gosh and it was the male of the species whereas i was here listenning to a very smart female. Some mistake ! I thought it would be rude to walk out within 5 minutes of her talk so there i was listening to every word of hers though it pretty much figured like greek (ok for a change french) to me! I was wanting the talk to end soon and all the crazy questions from students and professors alike to end too.

At the end of the talk I was wiser , pay attention to where you are heading and check four times before you hear anything nano, because it seems like nano is involved in everyones talk as if it adds flavour to the whole talk and attracts double the number of bees. For an afterthought , i wonder how many more students in the hall like me where sidetracked by nano if at all?