the end or beginning of the week?

Sunday was a quiet day of sorts in light of the rest of the week, with most of the day spent at the computer working on what I hope will be the near final drafts of the School's IMBA prospectus and the associated application form, along with some minor changes to the website.

I had spent the day working on these bits and realised as the shadows were growing longer (and my tummy was beginning to rumble) that I had not yet had breakfast, no mind lunch, and that it was time to get some food (like summer in Sydney, the heat does not encourage an eating response; rather I tend to take in a mot more fluids, mostly water).

Ah, you say, but it's the 3rd day of Eid and our friends at the Imperial will not be open - and you'd be right (although it seemed like they were focussed on some overdue refurbishment work rather than the Eid celebrations). So I wandered further along MG Road, past the ATMs (one with a security guard at either entrance, which either says we're not worried about the efficiencies of an ATM, or we are worried about people's security when they've loaded up) and several other buildings, with the college sports ground on the opposite side, till I cam to a little vegetarian restaurant set back behind the "Airlines Hotel". I managed to take away what turned out to be a too fried veg biryani but very good chappathi with chilli gobi, so dinner was wholesome and filling.

Nightime was a little more interesting as we had a power outage in the middle of the night and people were ringing the watchman to see what was happening. That would have been fine except that I've discovered through this that the watchman's "office" is located just below my bedroom window and he has the ringer on the telephone such that it sounded like it was ringing inside my bedroom! It took a couple of very sleepy wanders about the apartment and finally a peek out the bedroom window to confirm that I did not, indeed, have a phone I didn't know about and to locate the source of the ringing.

And so here we are in the office and ready for the second week.