The Benign Beginning

I’ve started a new blog, it’s
www.procrastinators.wordpress.com
It won’t be about Uni/Glasgow any more, but it’ll be about some other places, naturally.
See you there!
Missing Glasgow.

The Last One

Alright, so I’m sitting here on the floor between something and something else, with a large bowl of pasta which overnight has become even tastier, even though lost its attractive looks, and remains of mulled wine. Yesterday we had a small party: Rishab’s parents and aunt, Jazy, Ather and Kat, and the day before yesterday we [...]

Implicit Simplicity

I miss being a child, and miss home. They say if you miss something, you deplete your personal power, and show lack of respect and gratitude for the present moment, for where you are and who you are. Is it so? I don’t know. It would be wrong to say I don’t appreciate being on [...]

blog Eng.

We got our results finally. What a relief. I’m quite happy with mine, actually, not too bad after all.
 So now we can apply for Fresh Talent. I’ll do it as soon as I get letters from my parents  concerning the financial support of their poor (or shall I say lazy and impudent?) daughter.
On the job [...]

Marine: Layer after Layer

What I dismissively referred to as ‘marine layer’ the other morning turned out to be a proper heavy machinery for producing a bit of rain, then more rain, and ultimately more and more and more rain.
I’m sitting alone at home and listening to Linda. Now, how shall I describe Linda to you… Let’s say, Linda is my [...]

Glasgow (and Oxford) in Dundee

Yesterday, we went to Dundee for some sort of an education fair. This involved a two-hour drive (Scott picked me up outside St. George Cross at 7.30 a.m.), a whole day of handing out undergraduate prospectuses and answering questions, and a two-hour drive back. I don’t know about Scott, but I enjoyed it a lot; [...]

Like a Tree

I have just submitted my dissertation. I think I was the second one to submit; at least in the pile there only was one more. Outside the office there were about four or five  nervous people, clutching their works. The submission deadline is tomorrow.
I have a strange and sudden sensation (I love the English language! [...]

I See Why the Beast

I like this one:
 ‘Quasi-maximum Likelihood Estimation and Inference in Dynamic Models with Time-Varying Covariances’. I think I should start a collection, something like a Hundred Article Titles Which I Find Fascinating. This one sounds like a poem almost, especially the ‘time-varying covariances’ bit.
I have to say, I truly envy the new students of the University [...]

Why the Beast?

‘The rain continued. It was a hard rain, a perpetual rain, a sweating and steaming rain; it was a mizzle, a downpour, a fountain, a whipping at the eyes; it was a rain to drown all rains and the memory of rains’. Something like that. (Ray Bradbury, Long Rain). Actually, I am dramatising, and also [...]

Daft Draft and Dwelling

Haha, I’ve actually started procrastinators’ blog, but guess what, IT’S EMPTY so far… Every time I want to start writing I, guess what, POSTPONE.
 On Wednesday I am submitting the first draft of the dissertation. This means three days of very hard work, because today and yesterday no work at all was done: we went to [...]