Okay, not a very original title there but I had to put something even if it doesn’t reflect my true sentiments, which are more like, “Oh my God, it’s Friday already ?!” 
Yesterday I went swimming with Vidya, in Wash U’s swimming pool, after what seemed like a really long time and boy, did I enjoy it ! Swimming is truly the one sport that I have been into ever since I was a kid – for me, nothing beats the thrill of some good swimming. Only last evening, in a fit of madness, I forgot to stretch/warm-up before I got into the pool and in my over-enthusiasm, I ended up pulling a muscle in my left hand And later in the evening, I hurt my right hand on the edge of the pool and while cutting vegetables, I cut my finger ! It seemed like the day of accidents to me
I have been working on my ‘Interceptor’ lab assignment. Didn’t know C++ was a language with so many catches, man ! C# and Java are so much neater
Today I shall be going ice-skating with Nonda and Amitabh – hooray ! It is fast becoming a ritual it seems – Friday evenings are reserved for Nonda
On silk-list, I came across this report of a rather shocking incident. It scares me to see how paranoid the US state is becoming. I ask you – why should there be such a violent/stupid reaction to 9/11 ? Can’t it be about being more competent ?
Canadian in passport fiasco
Humiliated by immigration staff
JIM RANKIN
STAFF REPORTER
A Toronto woman coming home from India says she was pulled aside at
Chicago’s O’Hare Airport, accused of using a fake Canadian passport, denied
consular assistance and threatened with jail.
In tears and desperate, Berna Cruz says she told U.S. Immigration and
Naturalization Services (INS) officers she didn’t want to go to jail. She
told them she had to get home to her two children and was expected to be at
work the next day at a branch of a major Toronto bank where she works as a
loan officer. Instead of jailing her on Jan. 27, an INS officer cut the
front page of Cruz’s passport and filled each page with “expedited removal”
stamps, rendering it useless.
And finally, today’s Calvin and Hobbes is simply terrific. There’s something about the truth in them which makes it perhaps the most endearing comic strip on the planet :
Oh, I had a fair bit of interviewing too, at the US Border. For the first time, I had *two* successive interviews. After I got my I-94, I went onto customs, and spent *another* 20 or so minutes being interrogated by an official. In all, about 45 minutes. Funnily enough, the rest of the greyhound bus were americans/canadians and had finished their immigration/customs about 15+ minutes before I did, with the result that the driver just hung out the window and kept staring at me pitifully, and I simply turned around, shrugged to him helplessly, and continued getting interrogated. Heh!
’twas weird. And well, I finally got in though.
Am not on any mailing lists now, so I didn’t notice that silk post, but thats shameful really — that she didn’t get a chance to talk to the Canadian Consulate. Oh well.