A pile of study mate­r­ial has arrived for a course I am com­plet­ing via dis­tance edu­ca­tion (I started it years ago and could not fin­ish it because I ran out of money. I am hop­ing to fin­ish it now). I had kept in touch with one of my pro­fes­sors from the uni­ver­sity and he told me I could fin­ish my remain­ing credit points by doing the course, long dis­tance. I was thrilled, since the pos­si­bil­ity of going there to com­plete it, is pretty remote. So, wish me luck as I pore over tomes of media laws, ethics, com­mu­ni­ca­tion meth­ods and prac­tice for the next few months.

French classes started this week­end and goes on for 3 months, thus effec­tively mean­ing I can’t travel any­where for a while. Depress­ing thought as the trek gang is mak­ing plans to visit Hon­nemardu and I prob­a­bly won’t be able to make it. But on the brighter side, it has taken me two years to make time to learn a lan­guage and I fig­ure it’s bet­ter now than never.

Am half-way into a 2-week pho­tog­ra­phy course with Anand Sha­ran this week. It’s a mad dash after work every evening as I have to tra­verse about 20 kms in peak hours from work (out­skirts) to the main city where his stu­dio is located. Learn­ing new things every­day. Whether they will help me improve my click­ing skills, time will tell. But as Sha­ran advises: “Get equipped with the basics. But after that shoot with your instinct and heart and don’t get too car­ried away by technicalities.”

I won­der if I take on too much some­times. Why am I doing this? I have no clue, except that I am in this mad hurry, for rea­sons I have yet to fig­ure out. Or maybe I do it, because I’m a really lazy per­son, who doesn’t want to give in to her lazy nature. At times, I’d rather just read a book, watch TV, play with Kit Kit and laze around. And then I think, there’s so much to do and so lit­tle time…

So if you notice a fraz­zled woman with dark cir­cles, unkempt hair, dazed eyes, run­ning around in all direc­tions, that’s prob­a­bly me :)