A typical day for me goes something like this:
- Get up at some unearthly hour in the morning to one of the following - Taika licking my face or - Taika barking in my ear or - Taika trying to nudge me awake with some miscellaneous article of my clothing that she will rip to pieces if I do not get up and chase her around the house.
- Remain grouchy and sleepy till my morning coffee comes.
- Try and get online only to invariably find that my BSNL connection is, as usual, not working.
- Faff around till the time that I'm supposed to be at work and then run like crazy and get ready.
- Drive like a maniac and curse the living daylights out of everyone in my way.
- Fight for parking space with the watchman. Every single day.
- Somehow get through work - by drinking countless cups of coffee, chatting (online and on the phone), browsing, pretending not to sleep.
- Try and leave as early as possible but normally end up staying till at least 7:30-8.
- Contemplate going to the gym - and decide against it as always.
- Take the dog for a walk.
- Sleep.
Today however has been different - so far anyway:
- Woke up with the absence of tongues (no comments please), barking or clothing in my face. Either all that had happened and I'd slept through it anyway or Taika's just fed up of me.
- Sprang out of bed and ended up having breakfast with my dad which was great as I rarely get to spend time with him.
- Got online because miraculously BSNL worked!
- Was actually ready on time for work for once and was even waiting to get there after 4 days of sitting joblessly at home (I was sick).
- Drove peacefully to work, beaming (somewhat scarily maybe) at fellow commuters and singing to 'Beautiful Day' really loudly. I love U2.
- Arrived at work only to find that there was all the parking space in the world.
- And that the Big Boss B was out of town for the day so there was noone to breathe down my neck and make me all tense.
- Lunch with KC at 'Subway' for which he was only 20 minutes late - a record really by his standards - normally when I'm meeting him anywhere I'm resigned to waiting for at least 45 minutes. And we got free ice cream! And different flavours at that - mint and M&M and tiramisu!
- Even the weather seemed to be holding out - it was nice and breezy when I got out of Subway and started pouring only after I was safely inside office.
- At about 4:30 checked in with the Boss (not to be confused with Big Boss B) whether there was anything to send out. And there wasn't.
- So finished reading 'Tortilla Flat' by John Steinbeck in the one and a half official remaining work hours for the day. (I seem to have become a bit of a bookworm. Read '100 years of solitude', 'Love in the time of cholera', 'Of mice and men', 'Animal farm' and 'Tortilla Flat' in the span of two weeks. No mean feat I assure you.)
- Left at 6 sharp. A lot of people at work shot me dirty looks on my way out. Muaahahahaha.
- Again, the rain obligingly held out till I reached back home. I hate driving in the rain when there's traffic. Though there's something about it that makes me think that I'm in a Jewel video.
- Realized that in about a week, Angel will be back. And a few days after that, Madman will arrive. Hopefully, with a lot of gifts for me.
- Also realized that tomorrow's a Saturday. I love weekends!
- Heck with this kind of day, I may even make it to the gym. Or not. Probably not.
Yep, its been a pretty good day!
4 comments:
well thats great!i'm really glad you did!
i just wish i knew who you were now!
Breakfast man.. it makes all the diff!!
I remember when I was in Goa I would wake up only at around 2 in the afternoon (having slept only at 6 in the morning, I think thats pretty damn good!) and I would still insist on eating breakfast...so while K would be eating fish curry rice I'd be chomping away on my bacon and eggs!
Breakfast seriously makes all the difference!
yam: ya babe but i have to see you once in a while for that!
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