A thing or two about Sugar

Look at the time stamp on each of the posts on this blog. Chances are it'll never be written at a sane hour- sane for normal people that is. Which isn't to say I'm not normal * gets defensive* but the life I'm leading is anything but.

Let me give you a little example, a friend of ours let's call him Vinay, wants to know what are the chances of his friend getting through to this school that we call home... so he sends out an email, to the entire Indian listserv, to do a "dipcheck".

The responses range from "imho" ( in my humble opinion) don't worry even I didn't know what it meant- "if he can get a 740 he should take it again." Read, I know the website says scores range from 500 to 770 but I HAVE to assert at this point what a huge perfectionist I am..

To " I got a 760 but everyone knows the Chinese and IITians are clever", followed by "Oh my god I didn't mean to spam everyone" Read, life is difficult when you're competing with IITians, add the Chinese to that and you've got a deadly mix of sambar noodles or some such.

To " 770 for me!" Yeah, take that bitch I'm 10 whole marks higher where does that put me y'all?!

To dead silence after this last response. Long may silence last.

Well, to give you a sneak preview of Sugar's approach to this blog- what you won't hear about is my GMAT score, we'll leave that to the IITians of the world to debate. Unfortunately, you will also not hear about hook ups and one night stands and business school lust. First, I'm a prude- well if you read my other blog you'll know I'm not but more importantly, well, I'm in what this lovely place glibly calls an LDR.

Long Distance Relationship- in this case my fiance is in India.

Which means Airtel is my new best friend.

Which means I see women at HBS and men playing their games around each other and abstain.

Which means I'm thankful to have someone in my life who pushed me to move abroad and live my life here and make the most of my opportunities. Take that, all you disbelievers in the concept of supportive male partners!

I'm your average girl. Seriously. I go on shopping binges. I love seafood and sangria. I PMS, I have mood swings, I want to be lonely and walk around on my own and I need people to hang around with. Personally, I'm getting to that stage where I find a lot of my old habits have slowly died a death... don't like bars anymore for instance, like lounges better. I'm slowly acknowledging I'm a grown up- commitment and love does that to you. I'm emotional- terribly so.

But in spite of all this, I'm intelligent, ambitious, care about doing well and that's why I'm writing this blog- in the hope that it speaks to you and says that women don't need to trade off between being girlie and doing well. Much as I love watching them, I guess I'm sick of sitcoms, books and shows which represent women only as people who discuss clothes and relationships. What about women like Lemon and me?

So that's it- that's going to be my story- a little edgy, a little intense, but very emotional, caring, impulsive and a tad bit clumsy.