Kanu ki Shaadi Part 2

This is actually Day 4 and I am thoroughly jetlagged and tired and annoyed with both Delta and Air India!! Let me start by telling you where Day 2 and 3 went by - at the airport and in travel!

Day 2 started early in Atlanta and went smooth till we reached JFK and encountered the incompetent ground staff of Air India in the airport. It started with an empty counter at 9:30am in the morning which should have been a 24/7 counter. Finally the workforce arrived at 11:30am, consisting mostly of what appeared to be hormone high incompetent adolescents, who couldn't figure out their own computer system, could not get our itinerary correct and took thrice as long to understand what to do. I had a feeling in the pit of my stomach that something was going to go wrong, but oh well I chalked it down to lack of sleep. Well what do you know...?

Day 3 : After a relatively comfortable flight, great service and food (I have to give that much to Air India) we reached India, after a tiring 14 hour nonstop flight, only to find that our bags had not arrived and infact had been misplaced! All four of them! How does an airline do that? Was it the Delta flight from Atlanta that misplaced them or the Air India flight from JFK? No one seems to know. So here we are, Greg and I, with just one spare set of clothing if any (we had filled our carry on bags with the electronics we were carrying so that no one steals them from the checked bags). We filed a complain and drove five hours home. Greg called the Delta and Air India offices all evening to try and figure out what happened to the bags...no one knows. So here we are, at our own wedding without even a stitch of clothing. I do not have my clothes, makeup, toiletries, shoes, and neither does Greg!

Day 4: After countless hours of calling Air India (no answer and busy tones the whole time), Delta (same results), JFK and Atlanta Delta offices this is what we know:
Operator 1 says, "Ma'am your bags should have reached Delhi today..." and then she hangs up without any more information.
Operator 2 says, "Ma'am your bags never reached JFK. Please call me in two hours and I will followup your case and tell you what we find." This was at 1am in IST (a few minutes ago). We had been calling non stop for the previous 24 hours already, so neither Greg, nor Yashika or I have the energy to wait and call them back. Day starts at 7am tomorrow morning and it is time we all hit the bed with exhaustion and worry!!

I hope Day 5 brings some good news :(...

Kanu ki shaadi (a.k.a Kanu's Wedding) Part 1

I started this blog a year ago in the hope that I might be able to regain my former flair at writing. I have long since given up the hope for that ever happening in the near future. However, a few hours ago I realized this is the best way for me to update all my friends on what is happening and is about to happen in the next few days.

Well for starters I am about to get married. Now for those of you who know my aversion for the institution, this might come as a shock to say the very least. Sorry for disappointing you all. For those of you who were waiting with abated breath for me to take the plunge someday, with someone - anybody - your days or waiting are over! Yes, I am doing it!

So here is the plan: from tonight till the end of our trip to India (my fiance and I), I am going to make it a point to get online and write on my blog about everything that happened in the day (with pictures whenever possible). I will however request you to have patience with my periodical inability to stay coherent during a narration :)

Day 1 and counting down...It is 11pm on a cold Saturday night in Atlanta. I am sitting here in Greg's mac (do not ask me how I am managing to work on one of 'these' machine!), and instead of checking my work mailbox, much to my chagrin I am busy filling the reams of paper (alright virtual space) about the countdown to the D-day. The dooms day for both of us! Our flight to India is in a few hours and in a bid to keep jetlag at a minimum I proposed we go to bed early and get through the 12 hour layover, Greg on the other hand is proposing to stay up all night and all day and then crash like a log on the plane. He even has some Tylenol PM in his overnight bag I think. Of course we are both arguing over which is the best method and thus no one is sleeping, so I guess we all know who is eventually winning! Urghhh!!!

I walked for my graduating last evening and my cheeks are truly hurting from all the smiling that my face seemed to be unable to control. I can only wonder what I am going to be doing on the day of the wedding.

I hate spring in Georgia, I hate spring these days, period. I sneeze, my eyes are itching all the time, I have really bad asthma and I cant even climb the one flight of stairs i need to climb to get to my bedroom. The sheer number of medicines I am taking everyday is mind boggling! Of course it doesn't help that I am working on my dissertation these days and I just cannot afford being sick at this time.
However, I found the most amazing explanation for what is happening to me ;-)
see:
http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1301

Hijacked posts

Phew!! It is good to see that I can once again log into my blog and post blogs. for a few weeks my blog had been hijacked and would lead to a completely different website instead of my blogs- I guess I learnt my lesson - post something regularly if you don't want your site to be hijacked :)!

There isn't much to post these days, between 19 hour days and sitting on my favorite chair working on my dissertation and class exams and assignments and grading, there isn't any time or brain power left for anything else. I can not wait to be done. Just as I am wont to do, I have put on an unmentionable number of pounds, and I know that once I graduate from school I will lose all that weight. Again, I can not wait to be done! I am never going back to school (umm... I remember saying that after my first masters, and I went back to get another one and then get a doctorate, so we shall see how long that promise lasts)!

for now I need to get back to dissertating (if such a word actually exists) :D