A couple of months from now I will be moving to DC, when I start work in my new job. Change always comes with its share of apprehensions and trepidation. The Germantown/DC/College Park area is almost like a second home to me after Raleigh - been there so many times and know the place well. I always tell my friends back at State that Raleigh will be just a stone’s throw away from me when I move there.

In the midst of these thoughts and while bowling, Remya asked me Friday night if I would like to go to DC for the weekend. It was as though she had been reading my mind, for I said yes immediately. My happiness rubbed on my bowling as well, for the next two frames were strikes.

Later that night I pondered over my apparent inner joy - why was I so happy to go to DC? Why there of all places? Why not Baltimore or Richmond, say? Something in me hit me that night - I want to move on in life and therein lies my urge to see the place I am moving on to.

Life in Raleigh and NCSU was good, and it will always be. I have friends here, places I am used to and I know I will always be at home here, but let’s face it - I am getting ‘comfortable’ here. Comfortable because almost everything has gone right for me so far. Comfortable because I can live tommorrow indulging in today’s nostalgia. Perhaps I have become to satisfied with what I have that I don’t realise that I can do much more. Highly philosophical, but true and also practical. Joel Osteen talks about this at length in his book Become a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your Life Everyday, which makes a decent read when you are bored.

Dreams abound in our minds - they always do - but to achieve them we must wake up and go to work. I am guessing the characters in the bootless summer flick The Invasion will agree on the last part :P, but on a more serious note that adage makes more sense to me now than ever before.

Getting pensive also puts me to sleep, and I sleep I did. The next morning was a rush, for we had to go the airport at 5 AM in the morning, rent a car and then drive the 5 hours to DC. The whole day was spent in roaming around downtown and finally a visit to the temple. At the end of the day I met up with Neha, which was my other reason for coming to DC. The devil in me even had time to make an impromptu plan to surprise Neil - again! The attempt worked well and this time it was captured on video too….

Next day morning, after breakfast and a bit of shopping at IKEA (man I love that place!), we returned home - each of us satisfied with the gains in life we had made that day.

Ridiculous movie dialogue of the day: You can easily go a week without sleep - Daniel Craig in ‘The Invasion’