ThePanda

So yes, I needed to have taken something which dealt with probability, and something which dealt with neuroscience. No wait honestly I don’t, though it might have helped. Hmm I however do realize I haven’t hacked through anything majorly complex in years, probably since I did the entire thing with the ill-fated OS ideas. Hmm it was commencement today, and the last person I knew really well at Providence, left, now all I know is that there are people I know, though I have not the foggiest idea about where they may be. Well I have been told more people are coming back on Tuesday, and again I know some of these people, so this might still work out, hmm I wish this were easier.

It’s fascinating how unpredictable New England’s weather can be, well in most cases, unpredictability itself is fascinating, but oh yes the weather, it affect everyone. Hmm wait, why does the weather matter, or why doesn’t it matter, the days after all go on as usual, a few weeks in New England, and you realize it really isn’t worth giving up on things to do because of the weather. But then there is commencement, and people would be sad if it rained during the Campus Dance, or during commencement itself, well just to provide them with a window of opportunity, we have a day and a half of bright sunshine, followed by more rain, it was exactly a day and a half, we had a thunderstorm (or the closest I have ever seen to one while in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations) at 4 PM, barely hours after commencement ended, and people made their way back home. Fascinating…

Also yesterday, along with meeting one of my father’s friends, seeing upwards of two dozen gowned people, wishing we had the entire graduation thing, and academic regalia for school, and watching it pour cats and dogs, I joined the crowds, gave in to popular culture and watched Episode 3, umm no wait, I actually didn’t need to do any of that, I planned on watching Episode 3 either ways, seeing as I watched episodes 1 and 2, and had already watched the old trilogy, and seeing as I kind of liked the entire Star Wars thing. I shall also join the crowds in not being hyper-critical (as opposed to hypocritical), but criticizing it mildly. I felt it was a good movie, in someways, however parts of it were really overdone, and at least I walked out feeling as if more time should have been spent exploring parts of the Star Wars universe, and less time spent on some of the things that repeatedly popped up throughout the entire movie. Also being in a theater watching this was sort of interesting, I have never really seen as many people at any of the movie theaters at the mall, never been faced with a time when entire rows of seats are not available for the taking, or when people have had to stand at the entrance and try and figure out where they would like to sit, sort of interesting, probably also a result of today being memorial day.

For all those people who were in Providence, and will return to Providence at the end of three months (summer, forced exile, same difference), the friendly neighborhood Cold Stone is now open, and people who told me about Cold Stones were right, it’s awesome, not because it has better ice cream, but because they do things in front of you, and there are so many cool things you can do (replace bananas with more pineapples for instance). I however shall first digress, it has come to my notice that I love ice creams with coconut in them, something I haven’t really seen back home, and I am sort of disappointed, seeing as coconuts, or umm bad, not fresh coconuts anyways, are ubiquitous in their presence across the length and breadth of India, and umm they are cheap and hence can be used in ice cream. Having said that, as informed by my parents, who often talked about how ice creams were in the UK, bananas seem to be a strangely popular constituent of ice creams in the UK. Well the Americans seemed to have adopted similar customs, I am not sure which side of the Atlantic the idea originated in (and I am sure there shall be much controversy if this was ever researched), but, and the fact that most ice creams which contain things I like, also happen to contain a little bit of banana (something about the tropics being associated with the bright yellow fruit), is somewhat disturbing. Now don’t get me wrong, while I may not eat as many bananas as the next person in the dining halls, I do like bananas, they being one of the few fruits I would even consider eating without complaint (don’t even try apples), but I am sorry I am not a big fan of bananas in ice cream, and given the option of having my favorite kinds of ice cream minus the bananas, I would be really happy, but ya ice cream being ice cream, bananas or no bananas, I eat chunky monkey (looking at you Mr. Ben and Mr. Jerry). Cold Stone however does allow me to have stuff other than bananas, leading to a better ice cream in my opinion. For the uninitiated (and I was one :D), Cold Stone is based quite literally around a cold stone, a cooled counter, where they mix dollops of ice cream with stuff like coconut and pineapple, and then give it to you in a cup. Hmm, OK I am not sure which I like better, but Cold Stone was cool, and it was good, and ya, that’s about it.

This has to be published today, for today I shift to Hidden Street, which is not really hidden, and after Meeting Street, doesn’t qualify as much of a street, rather is an alley. Hmm, I shifted almost all my stuff yesterday, so the shift really isn’t a shift, just me giving my key back, and moving on. Well my apartment seems to have bright blue keys, somewhat amusing, and unlike my keys for EmWool, they say nothing about the keys not being duplicable, or anything, and the key itself is clearly something, someone duplicated, so I could have a set, oh well fun times lie ahead, things happen today:).

Ze Panda

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