Sunday guilt

One phenomenon that most ISBians here experienced every sunday, especially around 3-4 in the afternoon is called sunday guilt. Its that feeling that you had decided to do so many things over the weekend and now the weekend is over and you havent done much! It happens with me every sunday... I tend to accumulate stuff to read up and catch up on over the weekdays. Its not easy at all to do al the pre readings before classes. Many times, some articles and cases end up being interesting and some very time consuming... meaning you dont find time for some other readings... rajesh, one of my section C mates, has managed to tide over this problem by using his group and sharing readings but not everyone of every group has managed it until now... so when saturday is here, there are these conflicting feelings in the mind... one says, take rest, relax this is the time for another week of classes and exams beckon... another says, make up for the lost time, make up for what you have not done over the past week... and invariably, the first one wins, to a varying degree, every week... so when sunday afternoon arrives and i take stock, i realise i have tons to do... :) i have been fighting back with better time management and the situation is certainly better than before... today, around 4, when i took stock, i have completed almost everything except that i wanted to read up stuff about the org behavior research paper but ended up missing that target... now that gets postponed for tomorrow...

had my first spanish class today... everything from hola! que tal to yo soy guapo y listo y inteligente y simpatico y divertido. This is my first foreign language... from 10 to 11 in the morning, it was total fun going thru all this with esther in a small class... i loved it... now, i look forward to practicing this stuff... saurabh is in the class as well... so spanish rules in my apartment from now onwards... poor atul...

saturday evening was one heartbreaker... saurabh and I were listening to the india holland hockey match commentary on all india radio on saurabh's walkman and were jumping around for every goal until the last 10 minutes... we were literally drilling through our ears as we cudnt believe what we were hearing... truly heart breaking... i wish India bounces back and wins the champions trophy...

i reframed my todo list today... its growth per day is faster than the chinese GDP growth per year... now, i have been reading economics for the past 5 hours and so you have to excuse me for this poor analogy... maybe its time to sleep...