It’s 2004 and the last hurdle has been cleared! This afternoon I obtained my EAD card and am currently in the process of winding up unfinished tasks before I get onto tomorrow’s Lufthansa flight to Chennai. I return on the 29th of Jan to St. Louis for a brief 2 days before driving to New York to join my new job with Morgan Stanley.
So I guess this is it. It’s goodbye to Washington University and all my friends in it. I have had the most wonderful time in St. Louis and Wash U these last 2 years and I hope to keep coming back to visit old friends 
Unlike my last trip to India, this time I hope to keep posting to my blog more often and with tons of pictures thrown in too so keep watching this space.
India, here I come!
[Btw, happy new year everybody!]
