It's been nearly a year that I quit my job as an Associate Producer at Bloomberg UTV. Countless SOPs, hundreds of e-mails, facebook pings and ISD calls later, I settled for a Master's program in TV, Radio and Film at Syracuse University. My heart though was set on New York Film Academy so it's going to take a while accepting that this is for the best and I will still have a chance to live in New York city someday. I have an open mind...shouldn't be that difficult settling in :)A short film and a documentary filled up the gap of this long sabbatical. Added to that long months of domestic bliss back at home in Bhubaneswar with parents. Trips to Mumbai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Chennai...catching up with old friends, making new ones and discovering that some friendships can be more than just that......in a very wonderful way :)
So my mechanical penning down of events in the last few months is urged by the fact that here I am in Syracuse finally and that paper work, formalities, shopping ALL OF IT, piles up in what for now looks very intimidating for the next one month. Driving down from NYC to Syracuse was wonderful. I couldn't have asked for better company and a more picturesque landscape . Syracuse and especially the university area where I live now, is almost lost in a different era of time. Dotted with picture perfect homes, quaint old Victorian looking university buildings, it does seem a bit too idyllic for a campus town...
Finally made some friends. Chinese, Greek and Canadian on the list for now. Looking forward to getting to know them better. Now it's down to the house hunting and finishing pre-class assignment. But it doesn't seem that bad. I have Christopher Vogler's 'Mythic Structure for Writers' to read up before Tuesday and 4 films to watch so NOT complaining :D
Oh and 4th of July brings with it fireworks so the weekend shall be very peaceful. Last night's outing with Anna from Greece and a couple of other American students was peaceful. ....
This is perhaps the closest I get to writing a 'journal' like post on my blog. More such accounts will be coming up, you know the kinds that have less context or philosophical streaks to them, just objective penning...
For now 300 pages of Vogler beckons...toodle-doo!
