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I am upto my throat in peanuts. No, actually they are coming out. That is what happens when you have home grown edibles. I have enough for the whole winter. Not the best quality but the best quantity for sure.
   In other news my backache has returned. This time with some considerable bang. Its really frightening since I will have to sit and work on my chair for quite some time to come. I think this time around I will kill it in its infancy with adequate analgesics in my system.
   I just can't do more than three chapters a day from my Pathology book. Yea I know pathetic speed but can't help it. Not that I am a very big internet addict just that I tire easily and need distractions to keep my brain engaged. Maximum concentration span has thankfully increased from a few seconds to a little over a minute. No, I am not kidding. I passed medical school with these attention spans. There are no under or overstatements. If you don't believe me ask any of my friends. Murtaza will be a good person to refer to.
   Hussain found out that his Behavioral Sciences DVD's were not working properly. I had to tell him that there was problem with the sound in first few lectures only and that it would go away. Nonetheless that is what you should expect of pirated stuff.
   I wish I could study more. And no, this phrase has not been stolen from DrPak but is coming from the dark corners of my mind. Really it is a wish that I never thought I ever had! Strange times!
   I just realized yesterday that I was wasting about one and a half GB of my disk spaces on stored, uncompressed, images. I compressed all of them so that I have ample space on my disk to play with. This reminds me that I need to buy a hard drive some time soon to complement my present storage capacity which by no means is something to boast about. I do miss a flash drive too and a DVD writer and a good graphics card and a sound card. But then I miss many more things.
   I must go now and read some good fiction or poetry or I will die!

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