Life As I Know It

I’m in the mood for a rant. Do you enjoy a desk job? Do you enjoy the comforts of an AC and a person always enquiring if you need tea when you are really busy reading up on something and the wheels are turning in your head and just like that the interruption derails the train. Destination confusion. Because you can’t even yell at someone who is merely doing his job. I instead asked if it was okay if I made a cup for myself when I really needed it. I continued with my work ignoring the idea I had lost. Before I knew it I t was 1 o’clock. I decided to stroll around because I had been sitting for nearly 3 hours. I am not used to sitting that long. I am a fidgety human always on her feet. I don’t like being in a room behind a desk staring at a screen and pretending I care. I need to move about. My brain gets more blood to function when I pace or breathe fresh air. I hate sitting. That’s also why I quit my first job. I get head achy and cranky if I am to sit in a closed room. I got a littl

My niece has been reading my blog and was offended that I hadn’t mentioned her existence on my blog. She sent me a count of the number of times I have mentioned other family members. So yeah… I have a niece. Woohoo! (I don’t like mentioning my family too much because I invariably get into trouble. I mean what is the point of screaming free speech when your own family won’t allow it?) I became an auntie even before I hit my teens which is why I find it really difficult being an aunt when our age gap is so less. I find that my nephews and niece relate better to me because they have the freedom to discuss anything under the sun with me and they know I actually keep their secrets which makes me the fun aunt who is never called auntie and that in itself is a big win. My niece was on an internet lockdown which meant she had to adapt to means of entertaining herself the way I did way back in the dark ages when we didn’t know how far the internet would go and was just becoming the public’