One thing I need to figure out in MovableType is to be able to set the date of a blog entry – for instance, I want to talk about yesterday right now but this is going to show up as Sept 28 [Saturday morning] – hmm.
Anyhow, did you know that my Thinkpad is called Raj ? Which is short, btw, for Rajeswari – one of my dearest friends, now studying at Columbia in NY. Yes, that means that my Thinkpad is female which means that I am a lot more loving to it then I would otherwise be were its name male 
So what happened in my world yesterday ? For one, I made an astounding amount of progress in my research – FACET is coming along nicely in its new form which involves abstracting the CORBA away as a feature. I have to admit, even if I say so myself, it is rather slick with amazing neatness in the code 
Among other things, I also happen to be standing for the post of ‘General Secretary’ of the Indian Graduate Student Association (IGSA) aka “Umang” – let’s see how that goes [considering my history in these matters ]
Last evening was spent with nOnda and her roommate Katusha [whom we call Kat]. She studies at Wash U and is of Italian American origin – great fun to talk to and very pleasant company. Anyway, so the three of us trooped down to Niks’ wine bar after dinner and had a lovely time drinking some white wine and discussing a whole lot of things from cross-cultural differences to the fight nOnda and I had during the day [which lasted exactly for 7 minutes ] and about the underclothes [or the lack thereof] of a woman who walked past our table
So it is Saturday morning now and I just finished catching up with Vidye and her adventures for last evening. Time to have a bath and head to school to work on my never-ending batch of assignments.
Oh and here’s the snap which has become really famous in recent times. You can figure out why
I have been practising my driving quite consistently with Vidye for a few days now and it looks like I am quite ready to take the test. The evening again was another long practise session and everything seems to be in good order – the parallel parking, the ovecautious driving etc. And I just love driving – having driven my Zen and 800 back in India for about 6 years now
Anyway, we went grocery shopping in Schnucks as usual and later, went out for dinner to Central West End. Oh and we bumped into RC, Rajneesh and this chap Raghu as we walked past the Grind. A nice evening
