Entry 4: Burning the Midnight Oil????

Sometimes I just don't get it that my brain (and my diligence) starts functioning when it's already past midnight. Usually at this time, I would also be online on Facebook. And friends would start the chat with 'Burning the midnight oil???" liners. Is there such a thing a late night in campus? Well, surely there is a thing as early mornings when everyone is asleep. But late nights? Midnight oil? Please!!

Anyway, here I am, trying my best to finish writing my PhD synopsis on "The Morphosyntax of Lai and Mizo: A typological perspective". I still have a topic to finish on Aspects in Mizo and Lai (my lion topic), tweak the literature review and I'll be done with it. Oh wait!! I just remembered, I still have to arrange my 10 page bibliography in numeral order! Do I still have a page to add? I should check up on it. Great!! More work. I should finish by the weekend and go meet my supervisor armed with my first draft latest by Tuesday next week. I wonder how many pages will she ask me to rewrite. I don't really mind because it's just my first draft anyway. I still have six months after my viva to submit the final draft. Oh wait! I haven't even have my MPhil Viva yet! So which means, I'm six months advanced! *Grin*

My laptop clock says its 3:04 AM as I type this line. I still don't want to go to sleep and that's why I'm still up posting this. And I just had a tiff with my significant other. Another low! It's going to keep me up for a few hours again. My dad was right in a way, there would have been less emotional jargon piling up to my research work if I had stayed single, which I refused to, after meeting this mathematician. And I'm sure my tiff with him tonight had nothing to do with me being stressed because my Viva has been delayed for so long. Or does it??

So, I just got done with the topic on Agreement in Mizo and Lai and I won't write anymore for tonight. I also  learnt a new Lai word today from David Van Bik's 'Chin-English Dictionary'.

luangpi n. home, house; this is poetic and not commonly used.

I guess this must be roughly equivalent to 'run in' in Mizo which is also a noun for home or house which is used only in poetic language or in songs. The beauty of my two languages. How else would you say the word 'home' in an English song??

My roommate just stirred in her sleep. I hope it's not because of the sound of my keyboard. Maybe it's because of the mosquitoes who decided to make a comeback with Delhi's pleasant weather. I should be hitting the sheets too though I'm not yet sleepy.My back hurts already though. Yup!! She just stirred again and rolled over this time. I should really sign off...