A beautiful weekend crammed with hectic fun making is a notoriously difficult thing to recover from. It takes a lot of will power to show up at the lab on Monday morning. And even when you do, there are the inevitable hours of Facebooking, Orkutting, Gtalking and Emailing. One way to avoid this dilemma is to work through the weekend. It may sound drastic, but it isn't so bad if you somehow manage it so that you will never know what you missed. Or else, you should have a set of rituals which make it easier to slide back into the routine, like 3 cups of coffee and a early morning 8 AM class. Or, use the metaphor of entering a swimming pool. You can start off by hesitantly dipping your big toe, jump back and screw your face into a magnificent frown of distaste, then dip your right foot, jump about in agony, and finally totally immerse yourself. It is painful. Or else, you can come running and dive headlong into the cold clammy water, a brief moment of agony, which transforms into obliviousness, is all you need to endure. The choice is ours to make! ( I will make mine after I call up a few friends, clean up my desk, organize my music collection and say hi to colleagues in the neighboring lab :) )
ps. This is the 200th Post on this Blog!
