A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, or so says Johnny Walker. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, which I read in the duration of my journey of a thousand miles, says that life is like prime numbers, it is what is left when all patterns are removed (well not exactly but I paraphrased it to mean the same thing, so that applies, go to hell)... Anyways every friday the BDH runs something it titles Diamonds and Coal (go figure), and well I am gonna do one of those here, since umm I am lazy, whatever…
A coal to people who stretch their seats back in economy class and refuse to return them to an upright position even when meals are being served, or when requested to do so. When traveling consider your own comfort and a little of everyones you greedy pigs…
A diamond to being in a school which while not being pretentious is related to pretentious schools. Also a diamond to all the people from Harvard, Brown and other underrepresented college who kept me occupied for a good part of my 8 hours at Frankfurt. Whatever I may have said about Harvard, some of the people there are fun and umm some of those nice people love Harvard, hence it has redeeming value…
A ton of coal to Harvard for telling its students that they concentrate in subjects because they’re special, and other such stuff. We at Brown concentrate as opposed to major, we have been doing it before you people at Harvard, and it’s something you copied much like the New Curriculum, stop telling your people you are special because you copied those…
A diamond to the two Slovenians and one Kazakh who found me, and to the ticketing agent who seated us next to each other, and the sweatshirts which helped us identify each other. EDK (using math nomenclature) as I told you before I left, people with Brown Sweatshirts are protected by Jedis…
A few tons of coal (even though it makes it worse) to Delhi for being as dusty as it is now, argh…
A few tons of coal to all those people who were slow in responding to the boarding call for my second flight and thus directly responsible for a delay in take-off and hence landing.
A Diamond to the people who have called and tried to entertain me. A half gram of coal to the people who created an awkward social situation for me today…
A diamond to the wellness box on Lufthansa flights, the snacks and the box are both good 
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A diamond to the Thayer St. candy store, your truffles are much appreciated.
A half-baked diamond (as in something which is still coalish) to being at home, I still wanna go back soon, and I don’t really like it all that much, thanks for all the efforts people have been making though (as in thank you for the effort, it helps )...
Coal to the person who cut power a few minutes ago, I hate you for that, now give me back my power…
Coal to all those people who do not remember me and feel there’s a difference in my weight, darn you all…
A diamond to all those people from Brown who’ve been coming online on AIM, yay…
A cubic-zirconium to Statement of Interests, you take too much thought…
A diamond to the fiction special issue of the New Yorker, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, A Burden of Flowers, all fabulous reads which kept me occupied at Boston…
A diamond to the commuter rail link between Providence and Boston, it passes through some rather beautiful places and is generally good…
A diamond to the people who make Providence such a beautiful city…
Coal to Chopsticks which has gone down, or at least was down today…
A diamond to the Lufthansa pilot who announced we were flying over Bangor, Maine, it’s funny after all the I will swim to Maine jokes
Edit
Coal to having no christmas decorations in Delhi. While I know we didn’t ever have that many decorations, a certain amount of decoration was always visible, not seeing those today is weird, and unfortunate…
Merry Christmas everyone, it’s a long night, and a long 3 weeks ahead, I’ll be back at Brown soon…
Ze Panda