Writing Papers, Nabz-style

A couple of things on the agenda tonight:

1) Annoyance with myself. As I said earlier tonight - sometimes I wish I studied something happier, like the psychological impact of teddy bears on babies. But noooo, I go and decide I want to study crazy, zealous, evil Hindu Nationalists and Partition; and riot production and Muslim sup/re/op/pression in Gujarat. Way to go EnPi.

2) Alcohol deprived, thanks to a no-whiskey-until-Jan-First-diet, which was supposed to be a no-hard-liquor-until-said-date diet, but that was broken one glorious night with a friend from home at the bar around the corner. It has wonderful dirty martinis (Grey Goose, 3 olives - usually stuffed with gorgonzola but sadly plain that night). The bar-tender called me a 'celebrity' for texting away on my phone and wearing my plaid purple peaked hat that I love oh-so-much, and then asked my friend and me to do a tequila shot with him. How could I have refused? The tequila was certainly amazing though - the dude knows his alcohol. So smooth you barely needed the lime.

Anyway. Tonight. Researching Gujarat and drinking vodka/red bull. Yummy! And a definite step up (it's all about the upward mobilization folks) from the ice wine of last night (although, that was quite delicious in itself - yay Niagara!)

3) Focalizing. Who the hell uses the word 'focalizing.' A case of bad English - what some would call 'Indian English,' but what, like my thesis supervisor, I abhor.

ps: that's such a beautiful word - abhor.

I like words.

[Edit: 12:43am. Same author - 'lumpenising'. WTF!]

[Edit: 1:29am. Another author - and Apparently Gandhi was assassinated on 31 January! Seriously? Seriously? 30 January folks. I should know. EPW, you should be ashamed of yourself for letting that one slip. Just goes to show how 'revered' the ol'e Mahatma is in India-land.]

[Edit: 2:44am. The Red Bull certainly did its job. It's almost 3am and I'm wide awake. That being said, I've probably now also consumed about 5 shots worth of vodka. You'd think the Gujjus would make more sense when you're a tad tipsy - apparently not. Mazel Tov folks. It's bed time. See you in the morning/a couple of hours.]