Re-starting trouble

Why the long silence? Petrified out of my guts, thats why. Talk about having too much on one's plate! Studying for exams to be written immediately, studying for exams to be written next year(No, this is not some stupid New Year wisecrack). Getting freaked out by geeky juniors getting perfect scores.

I am trying to write this without having the word pop up. But unless I can do a JK Rowling and refer to it as 'you know what' or something, its not gonna leave me alone. USMLE. There! I said it. To the people blissfully unaware of what this means, its an exam.One in which every Tom, Dick and Harry gets a 99. that doesn't mean its easy to get that. Oh no!! It just means you dont get any extra credit if you do get a 99. And if you dont, you are looked upon as someone barely fit to inhabit the planet.Well, thats what I may be in a years time when I finish with the three exams which last 7+ hours.

The uncertainty is what kills me. I know thats true of every exam but other exams last a day. This one is three exams, over a year. Ok, the sympathy letters can go to my google account which, I find, has linked up with Blogger also(Anyone else feel that google is taking over the earth?)

Ok , if you are saying why write a blog after a gazillion years to crib about exams which wouldnt interest anyone ,I would agree. But I did NOT write this to crib.Got you there, didn't I?
After making enough circles around the topic to satisfy a politician, I will come to the point. "In a world filled with uncertainties, there has dawned one ray of hope". Strangely ,my point seems to have been summed up in a sentence which seems like a TV advert of a B Grade thriller movie.Nevertheless, I will elaborate.The ray of hope(hold your breath) was Harry Potter Book 7 announcement. I hear the jeers(aaand, now we have poetry). Well, seriously. The book is sure to come out some time.It sounds good with Deathly Hallows and everything.And its the only sure thing on the horizon.She cant very well back out after announcing the title, can she? Well, to people who are still jeering about the childishness of reading HP books, sucks to you.I know you always wanted to read one, but never got round to doing it, then it was too late and now you console yourself by talking about 'Childishness'. Reaction formation. Thats what its called if I have my technical details right. If I dont, its also called Sour Grapes.

After the attack against unseen enemies, we will come back to the other amusing interludes. Being stuck in a cricketless nation is hard. But Google videos does make up for some stuff(I will NOT tell you how much Google pays me for these built-in ads). I saw the video with Sreeshanth doing the jig after hitting that six off Andy Nell( Is that spelt right?). Harsha Bhogle called it 'refreshingly rural'. It was more. In your face South Africa!!

Christmas is here and yet what I have written so far hardly seems to reflect any Chrismas Spirit. Well, someone has to make the season interesting!

P.S: The title just says what I felt after reading what I had written.