From khare@cco.caltech.edu Sat Oct  9 16:28:56 1993
To: adam@csvax.cs.caltech.edu, ernest@cco.caltech.edu, greg@marble.caltech.edu,
        jplindon@husc.harvard.edu, kbaer@loyola.edu,
        llmitic@casbah.acns.nwu.edu, mitic_lj@hcf.jhunix.jhu.edu
Subject: No, I'm not dead... yet, anyway!
Cc: khare@cco.caltech.edu

Sorry I've been out of touch of late... I *am* in Pasadena, but only
barely above water. I'll spare all of you the details, but I just wanted to 
apologize for not having gotten back to some of you sooner and in advance
for not getting back to each of you for a week or two. 

Wish you were here...
er... Wish I was there...
wait... Wish I was in Hawaii... that's the ticket :)

Rohit Khare

PS: When I woke up this morning, this song was on, and I couldn't figure out
the lyrics. Thanks to that wonderful, wonderful Woodchuck Guidebook, the
Internet, I see that there's a 15,000-song archive at ftp.uwp.edu...
Not to get too morose or anything, I was glad to find that there was someone,
if only fictional, feeling worse than I was :)

_Runaway Train_

Call you up in the middle of the night
Like a firefly without a light
You were there like a blow torch burning
I was a key that could use a little turning
So tired that I couldn't even sleep
So many secrets I couldn't keep
Promised myself I wouldn't weep
One more promise I couldn't keep
It seems no one can help me now
I'm in too deep
There's no way out
This time I have really led myself astray

Refrain:
Runaway train never going back
Wrong way on a one way track
Seems like I should be getting somewhere
Somehow I'm neither here nor there

Can you help me remember how to smile
Make it somehow all seem worthwhile
How on earth did I get so jaded
Life's mystery seems so faded
I can go where no one else can go
I know what no one else knows
Here I am just drownin' in the rain
With a ticket for a runaway train

Everything seems cut and dry,
Day and night,
Earth and Sky
Somehow I
just don't believe it

Refrain

Bought a ticket for a runaway train
Like a madman laughin' at the rain
Little out of touch,
Little insane
Just easier than dealing with the pain

Refrain

Runaway train never comin' back
Runaway train tearin' up the track
Runaway train burnin' in my veins
Runaway but it always seems the same