Another Mortal Life

Even before I start, you can already guess the problem with my BTP- it is yet to get the priority it deserves. Memories of the only day I spent some time on it consist more of lavish(?) visuals from Lodhi Garden than any academic work. And then, not before the day of presentations did I start working on the report. I had to borrow time from almost every other activity. While a bath was out of question, I even dumped the idea of a shave on seeing a friend who had a beard at least 2 mm longer than mine and who was going as such for his presentation.

[The recent experiments of letting the beard grow upto 1 mm, 1.5 mm, 2 mm, etc has lead me to conclude that one mm of beard can have the same effect on you as one bottle of beer. I would argue that this effect rises exponentially with the length of the beard, but as the rate of growth of the beard itself decreases exponentially with time, one can assume a straight line graph between the alcoholic effect of the beard and the time you keep it.]

I don't remember where I read this: the idea of attending a viva session after having a few drinks in the morning- so as to appear confident. But really, the beard Had That effect before and during the presentation. The possibility of getting reprimanded for not having done much in BTP, didn't ring alarms in my mind. And then the things went fairly smooth too. Whatever they said about the virtually zero work, was in a very mild tone. Though, I'd like to mention here that I was sleepy, and the possibility of this fact interfering in this otherwise conclusive beard experiment can't be ruled out.

The next evening, we enjoyed a friend's birthday bash. The beard stayed on. (That now it didn't account for whole of The Effect is another thing). The 100 odd photos proved one thing about the beard: It doesn't look as bad as I used to think of it. With this realization, the idea of a shave didn't occur to me for one more day. But a bearded look can indeed be perceived as arrogance, and so in no case I'd have attended my very first lecture of a course with it. Bunked. The shave took me more time than usual, which means- postponing a shave for 5 days doesn't save you time. (The same can't be said about a 40-day old beard though. This friend of mine mentioned above would know.)

Why do such posts go on and on and on? Anyway, writing anything more would be an excessive digression. Still, I can't stop myself from questioning the validity of this saying that goes like- "What you sow, so shall you reap." Ok. Ok. I stop.