updates... job, friends, life .. in general
Recession also means rising responsibilities at work, that you become a super woman with 5 additional brains and a lot of patience to deal with crisis and crisis_creators and yet not complain, bcos you should be happy that you are one of the few loaded with a lot of tasks and may not be the first one to be asked to leave. Summary, irrespective of all the above, I am content at the end of each day, as it gives me less time to worry about other mundane stuff.
And also I realized these days that one needs to be careful not to blog from work, bcos there are always people around your desk looking for your time to solve their issues. And I really do not want any of them to actually peep into my monitor and get the url of my blog. Because some day I want the freedom to write about them as well :) Believe me, I am having wonderful times, and incidents happening here actually keep me in good humor !! Like today, I switched off from work to LJ logging, bcos somebody was cutting nails at work with a nail cutter, and I absolutely didnt like the sound, doesnt suit as a good background noise when I am working. I am surprised, people have/carry nail cutters to office. No, its not a she, its a he.
Yesterday was on phone for 2 hours with a long lost close friend. Yes, thats a oxymoron bcos one never loses close friends. But then it so happens, that we are 2 different very busy people, with no way of intersecting in each other's lives, even though we live in the same city and since we know each other too well, and often do not bother each other in our lives. I think I last met her some 14 months back, that too at my hometown and not bangalore. After that she changed her number once and I did it twice and being a Space Scientist with Chandrayan and other interesting things happening in her life, she didnt bother to check her yahoo mails. Luckily she happened to send me a forward from her office email which is very unsual of her, and then I replied and finally got her number. Well, she never carries her mobile to work, one of the additional reasons we fail to usually catch up, and being a devoted scientist, she reaches home only around 10ish ! ( yes, she is a Govt of India Employee) .
As it was already late for both of us, I had planned only to call her for 5 mins and probably catch up with her in the weekend if she was not spacing around in office. Well, we ended up talking for 2 hours. And I realized that she being a really good friend, I infact hid details of all hell which happened in my life in the past one year. I already know how my close friends and family experienced pain knowing about what I had to go through. Somehow, I didnt want P to experience the same pain. She was quite happy to know my whereabouts and I let her be with that impression. Of course, I am quite back to normal now, when things get a little more better, may be I can just tell it to her like a recap. I do not want her to travel with me in this journey back to normalcy. But, yes, I miss her support in this phase of my life.
Well, its already a long post and a considerable brain_absence from work and no more nail_cutting noise. But then I have actually forgotten to log a lot of other things like, Mom turning 60 last weekend, Dad too turned 60 four months back, now we have 2 senior citizens at home and a lot of child-like feelings and cribbing :) And then Stick ( Rash) took me to a cartoon exhibition that too making me bunk the strict 9 hour office routine, and guess what, I found it boring, and she thoroughly enjoyed it, so I will stop cribbing about it. And then Mihika is back in the city with her little brother. Now there are 2 of them to actually divide my love, and of course, test my patience ! Well, bcos I am the one who usually carries bday cakes and left over cakes from other parties to her home, she thinks I am a synonym for a cake ! And when I caught up on phone with her bcos I couldnt meet her for 2 weeks, she says " Come soon, bring cake" after a pause she corrects herself "big cake " . Well, she is getting the vocalubary right, much to her advantage !! Heh !
And also I realized these days that one needs to be careful not to blog from work, bcos there are always people around your desk looking for your time to solve their issues. And I really do not want any of them to actually peep into my monitor and get the url of my blog. Because some day I want the freedom to write about them as well :) Believe me, I am having wonderful times, and incidents happening here actually keep me in good humor !! Like today, I switched off from work to LJ logging, bcos somebody was cutting nails at work with a nail cutter, and I absolutely didnt like the sound, doesnt suit as a good background noise when I am working. I am surprised, people have/carry nail cutters to office. No, its not a she, its a he.
Yesterday was on phone for 2 hours with a long lost close friend. Yes, thats a oxymoron bcos one never loses close friends. But then it so happens, that we are 2 different very busy people, with no way of intersecting in each other's lives, even though we live in the same city and since we know each other too well, and often do not bother each other in our lives. I think I last met her some 14 months back, that too at my hometown and not bangalore. After that she changed her number once and I did it twice and being a Space Scientist with Chandrayan and other interesting things happening in her life, she didnt bother to check her yahoo mails. Luckily she happened to send me a forward from her office email which is very unsual of her, and then I replied and finally got her number. Well, she never carries her mobile to work, one of the additional reasons we fail to usually catch up, and being a devoted scientist, she reaches home only around 10ish ! ( yes, she is a Govt of India Employee) .
As it was already late for both of us, I had planned only to call her for 5 mins and probably catch up with her in the weekend if she was not spacing around in office. Well, we ended up talking for 2 hours. And I realized that she being a really good friend, I infact hid details of all hell which happened in my life in the past one year. I already know how my close friends and family experienced pain knowing about what I had to go through. Somehow, I didnt want P to experience the same pain. She was quite happy to know my whereabouts and I let her be with that impression. Of course, I am quite back to normal now, when things get a little more better, may be I can just tell it to her like a recap. I do not want her to travel with me in this journey back to normalcy. But, yes, I miss her support in this phase of my life.
Well, its already a long post and a considerable brain_absence from work and no more nail_cutting noise. But then I have actually forgotten to log a lot of other things like, Mom turning 60 last weekend, Dad too turned 60 four months back, now we have 2 senior citizens at home and a lot of child-like feelings and cribbing :) And then Stick ( Rash) took me to a cartoon exhibition that too making me bunk the strict 9 hour office routine, and guess what, I found it boring, and she thoroughly enjoyed it, so I will stop cribbing about it. And then Mihika is back in the city with her little brother. Now there are 2 of them to actually divide my love, and of course, test my patience ! Well, bcos I am the one who usually carries bday cakes and left over cakes from other parties to her home, she thinks I am a synonym for a cake ! And when I caught up on phone with her bcos I couldnt meet her for 2 weeks, she says " Come soon, bring cake" after a pause she corrects herself "big cake " . Well, she is getting the vocalubary right, much to her advantage !! Heh !