Not traveled anywhere for almost two months now. My last trip was to Dallas. I'm kind of feeling the wanderlust again a little bit. The good thing is I have my NYC trip planned coming up in a week. I don't really miss home yet. Nor home food. I have good new friends here ... maybe I miss my parents a little bit but I have been visiting way too much these last three years. I feel like I needed a consistent run by myself in Iowa City.

Back here, I switched research problems and started working on a new one. It seems to be going much better than the old one. Hopefully we will get it in the bag soon. There is some small amount of work to be done. Matt and Kasturi are my co-authors. And hopefully we can get a paper.

Kasturi will be gone by the end of this week. He will be in Boston for a week at STOC and then he will go to India, so hopefully we will have something concrete before he goes.

I've been enjoying some good meals cooked by Biswanath, Sanmitra's roommate in recent times. I also visited the strip club with Sanmitra last weekend and have been hanging out with them most of the time. It's good times. I think this is the best period I have had in terms of friends for a while. I am also socializing a lot more. It has been a good month in that sense.

Today was not a particularly good day, Federer lost, I had several interruptions to work and so did not get done much of what was planned. Oh and today Kasturi is taking us out for lunch. Thank God for that.