IRMA revisited continued

Then came the field work, the component that I was awaiting most eagerly for. I guess after the pressure of first term almost everyone was eagerly waiting to home. I was among the minority who always prefered the comforts of my hostel room to my house, something which I will talk about in my future posts. Anyways fieldwork in Bihar again turned to be less than intresting event. Actually the accomodation and other comforts were better than most of our friends. Even my partner was cool but doing nothing all day long was not a very exiciting affair. Thats the irony of life, when I was in campus and had loads of work at hand Iwas sulking and this sulking continued even when I had nothing to do. Man it does seem is never satisfied with life has to offer and always yearns for more. Of course this wisdom has not in anyway made me more content and I still continue to sulk when I have all the time in the world at home (old habits die hard). Of course there were certain things that we used to do on a daily basis, it mainly consisted of talking, eating and loads of sleeping. Sleeping as early as 9 and getting up at around 8. I chatted almost endlessly with my field partner and when that got montonous it was the villagers. But after some time even that got boring, the same old questions and same replies. It was not that there was nothing to do, some of my collegues had even finsihed writing thier reports. But I prefered procrastination to some solid work, something which I have actually becoming adept at after spending couple of years in IRMA. Infact I concur with view of many of my collegues who say that work done at last moment consumes least time and is also of the best quality. One can probably marginally improve the quality of work if you start early but I guess I was never that particular about such improvements prefering to spend my time watching movies and chatting with friends.
Anyways thats how the fieldwork component finally ended and I was glad at the time of leaving. Of course I too had made my share of friends but IRMA even with its hectic schedule was a better option than an idle village.