Back off

Yup.. my back’s off.. and I have a fair clue of what I may have done to tick it off. After some internet searches it seems fairly obvious that sleeping on your stomach is one of the worst things you could do to your back. And I don’t know any other way to sleep. It’s a trait that we (me n my bro) have inherited from my dad. And the pain has set in after all these years now only because I stopped using a pillow under the raised leg. Grrr… Muscular layouts. My incredibly sweet Vietnamese colleague gave me a bunch of heat patches to help out. I will be trying them out soon. If anyone else knows of any tried and tested home remedies to ease annoying lower back pain, I’d deeply appreciate the inputs. For now, Bon Weekend (yes it’s a long weekend in France :D)

The culinary weekend.......

And so it was... I made puri n chole and aloo parathas n chutney.. And we were out entire Saturday to enjoy the fête de la musique in Paris.. and so we dined at Sher-e-Punjab and the fête de la musique was more like the fête de la bar as we bar-hopped and caught snatches of some of the phenomenal quarter final lineups of the Euro Cup... The chole backed up as a spread for the baguette as well and all in all, I just spent a delightful weekend.. Back to the grind now.

The weekends..

Its most boring to be by yourself in a relatively new place. What do you do all day? All week I dream of the weekend and inexplicably on Saturday afternoon after I have had a long cherished late nighter on Friday and a well-deserved late morning on Saturday, I long for Monday again. From Saturday afternoon to Sunday night is an unbearable drone and I am sorry to say I am no longer the phone person that I was. I can't stand conversations > 15 min. I find excuses to hang up. I can't keep cooking all weekend. More often than not, I make one meal and the next is inevitably Maggi. I can't watch movies all weekend. Though I do see at least 4 every weekend for the lack of anything better to do. (Going out to the mall like I did last weekend turns out to be an unavoidable expense). I don't have too many books I haven't read. The internet is boring. And I can't seem to watch the endless sitcoms on the net or the TV. And in a place like Ames, if you aren't going to watch a movie or try out a restaurant or shop for the heck of it, you aren't doing anything. At least next weekend sounds promising. The final Harry Potter book is coming out then and I'm going to be sitting out in the hall waiting for my copy to find its way home.