Work calling

Have you ever begun feeling monday morning blues on a Sunday evening? Try taking a 10 day off from work and I am sure you will experience exactly what I am feeling right now.

The last ten days have been very fruitful. I should probably use ‘helpful’. There were a few goals I had set for these ten days. I am happy for the ones I managed to achieve. And there are a few which are still ‘pending’. Some will be done in a few days. Some may never happen. Whatever is the case, I am happy at the way the last ten days have gone, and that is what is more important.

It had been six months since I had played competitive cricket (read as ‘gully cricket’). It had been a long time since I had seen a full day’s match on TV. It had been 7 months since I had written an exam. It had been 2 months since I had gone shopping for books. It had been three months since I had spent an entire evening on G-talk. It had been more than 2 years since I wanted to buy a new computer. And it had been a lifetime’s desire to stand on the Vivekananda Rock Memorial.

I did it all! Accomplishment rocks, doesn’t it?

I don’t want to list the things that went unaccomplished. There are too many things. As I write this, I am reminded of two more things that I totally forgot about. The thing that really worries me is that I failed to do the quota of reading that I wanted to do. So that means that there are three books lying half-read right now- Atlas Shrugged, George Orwell’s 1984 and The Undercover Economist.

Talking about books, I went ‘book shopping’ today. And this in spite of one of my new year resolutions- don’t buy books until you have read the ones you already have. Today’s shopping was a costly affair even though I bought only a couple of books. First, it was ‘Aztec coffee’ at the cafe coffee day. It tasted no differently from the cups of coffee we get for free at office. Paying Rupees 68 for something you could have got for free is a terrible feeling. And then it was CasaPicola. I don’t remember what exactly what I ate there. The name went something like ‘Cake cream mousse’. Whatever the name, it was delicious and equally expensive. Finally, it was the book store- Reliance Time Out on Cunningham road. I spent nearly two hours at the store and every minute was worth spent. It is one place where I can easily spend the rest of my life without getting bored. The other thing I have noticed about the place is that the people who come to the store come there only because they love reading. And so it has a great ambience. They normally dont offer discounts but today I got a couple of vouchers for Rs.500 using which I can buy more books anytime. I am going there again next saturday! (By the way, I also have a thing or two for those spectacle-clad really nerdy girls who come there. Looking at them scouting for books turns me on. Didn’t I just say that people come there only for books? Well, forget it.)

I guess that is all I have to say tonight. Let me head for a long night’s sleep.

The dreaded cubicle is waiting for me. And I can already smell it’s venom.