Yesterday once more

It’s yesterday once more .... and quite literally so! Have joined the grind again and though the blues haven’t started hitting as yet, nevertheless things are pretty daunting at the moment. A sampler.
Scene I: Shaking myself out of waning REM sleep at 5 (yes morning! What did you think?).
Scene II: Trying to find a desperate toehold in an overcrowded morning train. Being jolted out of the remains of morning slumber by a live fisticuff scene (women’s empowerment at its best... fight and let the fight go on!).
Scene III: Patting myself for not losing my temper with foul-mouthed, grouchy auto-drivers.
Scene IV: Reminding myself to babysit recalcitrant 15-year-olds, while trying to teach them the intricacies of tense and subjunctives.
Well this is life and the list goes on... Wish me luck!

Bidding adieu to office blues!

I am destiny’s child (or so I would like myself to believe) and impulse is my driving force. Calculated contemplation was never my strong point and thank god for that. Ideally I’d like to be the master of my own time, but in today’s age of plummeting economy and skyrocketing inflation, this seems like the most atrocious wish of a severely pampered child.

Hence, after some deliberation, I’ve developed a convenient middle path for myself. I keep taking a break from economic enterprise (woe falleth on the Economists of the world who consider housework as non-economic activity) once in a while to indulge myself in the freewheeling state of being footloose and fancyfree.

Keeping this tradition alive I’ve decided to call it a day in Bangalore. I know doing so at this point in life is committing professional hara-kiri. But then, I was never given to seeing my life as a balance sheet (cynics can term it as being impractical).

Right now I am quite excited to go back and slip into the new role of a dutiful housewife, cooking lau chingri and kochchu shaak with gusto. But more importantly, I’m looking forward to doing things that I’ve wanted to do for a long time. Who knows, given my predilection for throwing up surprises, there’s a high chance of you seeing me somewhere that you’d never ever expected to! Keep guessing ;) …

(PS. Tonight it’s wine and cheese and everyone’s invited. :) )