Jury......the dreaded word. The period of frantic activity when u make up for all those hours you sat watching TROY and The Departed for the 10th time on the computer (when you should have actually been weaving or shaping thermacol). The time when classmates start resembling spies from KGB and FBI set to steal your ideas and present it to the jury before you and make you look like the ass. The time after which you see a T.V and wonder where you have seen it before. The time when you wake up in the middle of a night cos u just had a nightmare that your weaving samples are not on your loom anymore. Any improvement would be a ghost who you see weaving the same designs you were planning to weave the next day! The time when you spend your lifetime savings buying pretty handmade paper for mounting so that your not so pretty work looks better.

JURY DAY - you take extra care and drink the glass of milk ur mom has been asking u to take , the night before the jury. you wake up in the morning and realise you have a jury in a couple of hours and most of your work is still incomplete! Then the inevitable moment comes. you stand in front of 4 people whose only requirement right now is to see you cry , and you tell urself u wil not do it. (u eventually do at the end of 1 hr of drilling). and then it starts. you explain your work. explain the process. explain the cause behind the choice of the particular subject. explain the source of inspiration. explain the purpose behind the assignment. explain. explain. explain.............................
Then comes the best part - "we shall now rip you apart" part. so they question your work. like....................i c that you have read every possible book in the library on the subject and done the work according to your learning from it. But did you c the book called "blah blah bkah" on the third rack- 754.345? i think you missed the point the author was trying to make. yes. i can be smart. but since you have decided to screw my life anyways, do i have to take the effort of trying to act it? no. so come on and get it done and over with. My sambar and idli is waiting back in chennai.