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"Well. I am back!": So goes Samwise Gamgee on his return to the the Shire after Frodo sails away onto the other land with Gandalf. I am back. Means a lot of things.

For one thing, I am back in the blog. I have been writing a number of stuff that remains in the laptop but never sees the light of my blog. So this is the first one after a long time. The past month has been really really busy. For one thing. The other, it has been racy, confusing, tiring and has thrown a lot of me off track.

For a little filling in on what is going on. I moved to NY state. Got a job with a company up there. So trying to move to the new place, new people, new geography, weather,.. It is really nothing like moving to another location back home in India wherein the people change itself intensifies the situation. I got the SAD. Seasonal affection disorder. That's what I call it. It is winter, winter and more winter here. And coming from where I came from, it is summer, all glorius year long. So!! I am really finding it harsh and unwelcoming. Lexington seems to be heaven compared to this. Actually Lexington was Heaven whichever way you take it.

As for the area, it is pretty much threatening. Nothing very comforting about the surroundings like Lexington, where the school pretty much envelops you in its protection. But sitaution is pretty much tense in Lex, as such..Got my car broken into on the first week of my stay here. My laptop, hardisk, DVD collections, all my CDS, Audio, carnatic, software. Everything gone. Felt like my best friend left me once again. For a week I was unconsolable. Cried a lot. But it was my fault. Which brainless dumbo would leave such stuff in the car and sleep up in a hotel room? It was entirely my fault and not the place's.

Then got careless at the factory and bumped my head on a tool. Then got stupid and hit the other side on my car which also swelled up. I was like a comic character as in the archies!!

Peoplewise?? I haven't really had anytime to meet people. But there are not any Indian Indians here. So. But if I drive upto Buffalo/ Pittsburgh/ Rochester/ Cleveland there might be great people to meet. Probably try flying to NY sometime. But still. Here at my place, I am pretty much a loner.

So what happens when all the above comes together? I turn a bumbling, blue blistering barnacle!!! My mind actually turns into billions of them and eats them away itself. Got this hammer pounding steadily into my head: bham. bham. bham..

Wacko. Thats what I have become.

So what did I do? I take a break. TO LEXINGTONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN...I flew to Lexington last weekend and it turns out to be one of my most rewarding holidays. I did some cool stuff. Met my friends and walked a lot. Walked my turf. Should say! Got a new pair of shoes. Got some UK material for my car(which is by the way called Sarang). It is an old blue Toyota Camry, 2003 model. A bit old but enough for a new new driver. (and a new college graduate : hurt the pocket enough!!!)

So the year is turning out to be a pretty trail mix. Got a job and a car(hmmph). Got hurt 3 times. Went to the doctor quite some. got a burn up my leg to show for New year cooking. Moved out of a life. To a new one. And a lonely one. Left Lexington. Missed my brother's marriage for which I really meant to invite you all. But could not!!! Becos I could not go myself.. Selfish little piglet amn't I? AH! The big one. My Bro got married.

"Careful! Things may have shifted during flight!!" is the message that comes to me!.

So that's been a lot of filling in for a long time in a few words. But I missed writing. I missed reading. I missed every one of the things that made life happy in Lexington. Coffee, makkal, blogs, school, the roads, the walking, the speech, the sounds, the noises, the music. Every single thing that has made life away from home a little more eay to live.

But I got a new job for which I need to be thankful for. God has opened up a new chapter in my life. I need to find myself again and move on. And I shall endeavour to do precisely it from today. I got a sense of purpose. A way of giving back to the society that brought me up.

I shall be back with a lot more in the days to come.Maybe we shall some pictures here pretty soon.

Till then..Adios amigos!!