You are a brilliant storyteller. But you come too far and in between, that it seems some here have already forgotten you. For visibility, why don’t you start the title of your threads with “OYS_CHILL”?

The story is quite ‘mitho’, ‘saral’, and ‘bastawik’.        

One quick note …

“Sharing the pleasantries,” you wrote.

If you put those three words in quotes (“sharing the pleasantries”) and click on the Google search, how many hits you think you will get? Try it. 

I am with you on that one. I never learned the ‘the’ trick. It is the single most annoying word in English language. Nothing makes me quit writing more than ‘the’ and ‘in’ vs. ‘on.’  

Oys, write more often, because I think you are very good. So, how is the graduate school treating you? Done yet?