Of cucumber face packs and afternoon siestas

I have been cured of my monday blues . I guess you don't have any when you work your butt off all seven days of the week !! Yeah my massive claims of never working on a sunday , coz that was my well deserved (ahem !) R&R day has gone kaput :-(.

Once upon a time (ok 3 weeks back !! )an ideal R&R for me was sleeping in ,an 11 am chai , then a 'vatika' tel maalish (and freak out about all the hair i was losing), a cool cucumber face pack. This would then be accompanied by my mandatory india call. I would hang up in exactly twenty minutes ...coz thats exactly how long the face pack took to dry up and shut me up !.
And accompanying the two dudes while they croon "Dhaani", I would then whisk up a quick dal (or sambar), rice and sabzi ...maybe throw in a raita if the curd looked fit for human consumption.
Amidst all this there would be the usual sunday morning phone calls from friends planning out the evening. With hajaar phone calls to and fro we would be debating over a movie or the mall or dinner. And this discussion never ends ...if its the movies , then there is the whole other talk about movie ratings . Do the critics really mean it when they rate a movie C- ??? Some movies qualify as a $7.50 worth , others are the matinee show worth: $5. C'mon I am not going to shell out 1.50 extra for a C- movie ! Some disagree , and so it goes on .
Yeah and all this while I am concocting that meal I was talking about . Thank god for inventions like the cordless and glue sticks . Glue Sticks ...nothing to do with cooking but they are so cool. I used to hate those big blue bottles of camel glue dripping from all sides . It was such a yucky mess ! Ok here I go off on a tangent again . Btw, have i told you about my infinitesimally small attention span ??? Ahem ...maybe i don't need to anymore :-D.
Yeah so after a really long long bath (sometimes even a bubble bath ;-), and a nice hot meal it was time to hit the sack again for an afternoon siesta. Evenings were usually very morose. Not because we ended up watching that movie and figured why it was rated a C- after all, but thats when the monday blues used to hit me !. Hmmm I guess those were the happy days . Now there is no face pack , no tel maalish (and my hair is still falling :-O , no dal-chawal. The road to PhD is a long and winding one alright not to mention one ugly stinking mess I will end up being.