Monotony

Life has been REALLY monotonous ever since i moved to San Diego. The first week was the most interesting- staying at a friend's place, driving a brand new PT Cruiser, eating out, getting used to the job environment and such cool things...so u can imagine the plight since then.
Moved into a 2-bedroom apartment with two others. Both of them goto bed at 8:30pm on week days and at 9:30pm on weekends, making me feel guilty about sleeping "late" at 11pm. During grad days, 1 am was the earliest i went to bed, barring very very rare exceptions. Wonder how one moment people are young and the nano-second they start working, they become old. For all those worrying about not getting jobs and not being able to work...take my word- "working sucks"...not exactly because of working but because of all the revised schedule. Take ur own sweet time before facing the inevitable.
Contrary to popular belief, eating out has reduced a lot. I even carry lunch to office, which surprises even myself! Going to gym and temple are the two great pastimes here.
At last, i got something to talk about today. Went to the temple last night(it's just past 12 now) cos they had Ramanavami celebrations. That i would have been there otherwise too is a different issue. There I saw two beautiful girls(girls with sweet voices are known as "beautiful" in my dictionary!) singing Carnatic songs. The temple was full of people and i was forced to take a seat. I'd have stayed anyways, for the only other choices were going to the gym or cooking. So i took my seat at about 7:30pm and finally got to stand up at 10:30 pm to join the crowd in giving the artists a big and richly deserved standing ovation. Ranjani and Gayatri- the sisters, sang very very well. I found out only a minute ago that they are not as amateur as i initially thought they were. More info on them can be found at http://www.ranjanigayatri.com/ - kudos to them. Not for a single second did i feel like even stretching my legs during the 3 hour performance. It was absolutely engrossing to say the least. They are on a US tour now, singing in Cleveland this Sunday(tomorrow) and travelling to other places after that. As usual, i was lost in the crowd of Carnatic zealots talking about all the ragas n stuff.
I used to be part of SABHA(http://www.uc.edu/groups/sabha/index.html) during my grad days. Like most others who were there, i went to the orientation only cos they provided free pizza. As luck would have it, i ended up being the treasurer for that year and got the friendship of a few amazing student artists and got to meet a lot of renowned performers. We had a big SABHA family then. It was fun. The concerts were great and instilled in me an interest for Indian Classical Music. I was and am not comfortable with the theories, but listening to Carnatic music is a delight, more so if the song is in tamil. Learning it for 7 years, albeit against my will and with zero interest, did not hurt at all.
Cooked Maggi at 11pm and had it for dinner along with two bananas. Things are back to normalcy now. Winamp's singing "Maerkae Maerkae", roomies are into their 2nd quarter of tonight's sleep and i am feeling guilty about staying awake...