PPD

My friends call it the post prelim depression. It strikes after you sucessfully defend your Phd proposal a.k.a Prelim exam. It starts with a feeling of accomplishment, happiness on knocking out an exam. It then takes the form of inability to do any kind of serious work for a week, 2 weeks at times even months. I am at the beginning of the PPD and I want to shape it right. I decided to stock up on my books and enjoy the summer. It is going to be Ruskin Bond, Amitav Ghosh, Premchand and a few other indian authors.