Yet another uninspired blog post

So the exams are just two days away now - the first paper is Intelligent Systems on Tuesday. While we do have really long intervals between exams(3 and 4 days in each case), it looks like I'm going to have to do some tremendously intensive studying a la standard 8 and 9, when I usually studied about a week before the exams and always did unreasonably well. There was a guy I knew years ago who was always really pissed off about this sort of thing, since he studied as hard as he could and still had his ass kicked by unworthy nuts like me with no preparation at all.

I just hope the old magic is still alive and kicking - I've been so incredibly busy sending off apps that I've barely touched anything. I don't think I've ever been this underprepared for an exam - ever. Thankfully I have all the studying I did for the vivas to fall back on. Hail Mumbai University - at least they had one good idea.

Oh yeah - the apps are all gone now. So that's finally over.

There's a pigeon nesting outside my kitchen window. There's a grill there, on which my mom, who has something of a green thumb, has arranged a number of flowerpots with a pretty incredible variety of plants. Ditto for the living room window, which looks even better. I have a sneaking suspicion that all this new foliage is the reason there seem to be more birds around here nowadays.

Anyway, the aforementioned Mrs. Pigeon has taken up residence in an empty flowerpot. She deposited two eggs(my mom claims there were three) there a few days ago. Unfortunately, the depredations of crows and an eagle have left her with just one egg. Sad.

Just went over to the kitchen to take a look. Mrs. Pigeon was sitting on the eggs, though she seemed somewhat sleepy - her eyes were closed and she didn't notice the first few seconds of my visit. Sleepless nights?

When she did see me(through the window), she did something I'd only read about- she puffed up to almost twice her normal size! I didn't even know pigeons could do that, but she does seem to have received extreme provocation. Woe to any would-be egg eaters - they're going to have to fight one very pissed off mother. I wonder if she would be willing to take on the eagle my mom saw. It probably wouldn't be much of a contest - eagles are bigger, stronger, not to mention bred to kill.

Still, I've given up on trying to figure out the weird powers that mothers have. I'm pretty sure most people have received the "It's going to rain. Take your umbrella along" prediction from their mothers, on a completely cloudless day. Needless to say, we all disregard this advice and are duly soaked.

Hmmm, maybe there's a reason we say Mother Earth and Mother Nature...