S seems to have disappeared in the hullabaloo of Paris. The last time when I heard from him, he was preparing to head for Paris with a person whose identity was never revealed. He did not call me on Saturday as he promised the day before. I only hope they are fine.

Today I had a bad news, not that I'm very surprised or shocked. My paper submitted to one of the major conferences in my field, came rejected. The review comments were not all too bad but enough to seal my fate in this highly competitive conference. Every time I receive a rejection notification, I do some postmortem and try to learn from mistakes-- a good practise, some man of wisdom told in the past. This time is no different. Maybe I am making mistakes in learning from mistakes. I have to investigate this too.