Salsa, Pictionary and Bonds

...is what this post will have to be because I decided I will write a new entry now and then. So here goes... First and foremost, I have to mention that this last week has been the best I ever spent at IITG. And there's plenty of reasons for that.

Considering that the week began on Saturday (I guess I have the liberty to choose that), it was Lohri/Makar Sakranti/Pongal that day and our college was all geared up with plenty of events. So we had kite-flying in the morning and though I didn't fly a single kite because I woke up really late(blame the chilly winter morning for that), it was fun to watch. We followed that up with cricket (and I was the best fielder...yaaaay! (before you take that seriously, please consider sarcasm is among my favorite hobbies)) So anyways, morning and afternoon well-spent, I attended the day's movie screening- Hyderabad Blues; not a great movie but nevertheless, anything to spend your time on the weekend. After this was a bonfire and some serious dancing. And for probably the first time in my life, I was actually dancing like nobody was watching. All my school friends know what a jerk I am at dancing so just take my word for it- I was having a blast! Not that it prevented me from feeling like my body was composed of various body parts stitched together for the next couple of days. I mean, I was actually climbing the stairs like an eighty year old man! So well, as you can guess, the day was a lot of fun but please don't think it stops here. After all this... we decided that another movie was in order so some seven of us made a beeline for a friend's room and watched a two hour long video (no stretch of imagination would allow me to call it a movie) called Jackass 2.

Come Sunday and the day started off as usual with extreme bouts of laziness. I don't know why, but it is absolutely impossible to get out of the blankets on a winter day unless a class is about to begin in the next fifteen minutes. So anyways, somehow or the other day the day was whiled away and then in the evening, I went for my first ever Salsa class. That's right, the salsa bug has bit me too, after so many of my friends in Delhi! It was great fun, except that a certain ratio was a bit skewed. (Man I'm good at euphemism!). But yeah, I picked up a couple of steps.

The rest of the week was spent doing other, random, stuff which included pictionary in class. Yeah, it is possible to play pictionary without the standard set of board and playing pegs. All you need is four people and you can start off in the way of dumb-charades. And when words include rectum, pimp, gynaecologist, among more decent (but nerve wracking) ones like Ivy League, transit, clueless, whitewash etc., then I don't need to explain what a perfect pastime this is.

Classes had started off as usual, but for a change this didn't seem to matter so much because my body has started accepting the senate hall chairs as an extension of bed. This also makes waking up in the morning a wee bit easier. But some classes are so interesting that I don't like to sleep in them. Sample this (BT101):

"The neighbouring nucleosides in RNA are joined together by (?)...together baaay (?)........JOINED TOGETHER BY???"

That was the prof speaking, by the way, and everyone was flummoxed because they expected something big... phosphodiester linkage at the very least. Which would explain the absence of any answer from the class (apart from the fact that half was busy dreaming). Anyway, here's the epilogue:

"Come on students...they are joined together by bonds."

Thanks a lot ma'am...we so didn't know that.