Good Luck SP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SP(SwethaPriyanka to the uninitiated :) ) has her thesis defense coming up tomorrow, just wished her and told her that I'll start working on my presentation too, but I'm being creative instead :p.

Now the most special thing about SP is her sense of night and day - she is one of the really few people I know who manages to do a nite out for all the right reasons (as far as I can remember - I must've been part of 3 all-nighters - all for 'social' reasons :)) ).
So her USP is the way she takes things heads on when she's under pressure - which is awesome, cos most ppl I know (including me) would just sit and wait and watch :).
Which brings me to the issue of how different people react to different things differently..
Another incident which triggered this thought was a road rage incident that happened today to a postdoc in my lab; I didnt venture to ask the details, but from what I could glean - he (his car) apparently hit/bumped into someones car , and the other person followed him for about 20 minutes, and this person(X) was assuming that Y (stalker)'s workplace was the same. When X pulled into the parking lot - Y suddenly bumps into him from behind.. I dunno too many details, but from what I could see of X - he was totally totally shaken - which was completely different from how he appeared to the world until yesterday - I'm really afraid of him, had a very very angry and rude email from him once, and since then I make sure that my work is much before the deadline.
It was really surprising (or perhaps not) to see him go to pieces today ; had to go to a class, and on the way I saw him sitting in the cafeteria with someone ( presumably the girlfriend) who was trying to console him, and he had a tissue in his hand.
I guess it is these sudden shocks that bring out what you really are, how you react to them is a true measure of what your chromosomes are made of, or probably this is the definition of that enigmatic 4 letter word - life.