A lot has happened since I last wrote.
I got promoted. I got a decent hike. I got a project which will keep me out of home for around 6 months this year. So I screwed my family life. My husband who has a steady job for 3 years, changed jobs finally. And now that he did it once, he is all excited and he is on the verge of changing to another job in less than a month. Our flat in Bangalore is getting ready quite on schedule. Most probably I won’t be around when we get the keys to our house. Go figure. I keep advocating others not to allow people to take you for granted and to ensure that you have your dignity. I guess all that is just pep talk for others and really doesn’t apply to me. We keep having plans of starting a family which we keep pushing to the next year or some occasion because “ it is not the right time”. I liked the attitude of my new client… a go for it guy who says, there is never a right time for anything. So why wait.. just do it. So simple. He runs a $ 20 billion company and if he says it doable then it must be.
Had a chat with the guy who keeps the kitchen at Hotel Avalon in Erie, PA where I stayed for a week. Spoke to another old man, who has been sober for 8 months, or so he says. Things they said seemed to echo conversations that I can have with any middle class person back at home. Most of the issues we discussed, Oh yeah.. we discussed issues over breakfast…. Were simple day to day things.. spending too much, saving too much, having a job, not having a job, good, bad, evil, god, drinking…. Kinda felt like home…. In a strange land, in a strange hotel, watching college basketball, eating stale muffins, talking to a strange black guy and an even stranger white oldie.. I felt safe. Caught up on the old episodes of CSI, CSI NY, Law and Order, Bones….. good use of time.
Walked around the town.. Erie. Small place. As Debbie at the bric a brac store down told me.. the town strives to keep itself small. Covered in pristine snow, it had a charm of its own. It is home to Gammon University. Maybe it’s a good place in summer when the lake is not frozen and people come out more. When summer comes here is another question, but whenever it does.. I’m sure it will be beautiful and the way things are now, I’m sure I will be there to see it when it happens.
Travelled in Air India for the 1st time and I have to admit, it was not as bad as I thought it would be. The food was great, to say the least. The service was ok… can’t compare it to Emirates. What really let me down was the entertainment. There wasn’t enough to keep me occupied for 8 hours on my way up to Frankfurt, I wonder what I would do for a 21 hour flight down to Mumbai.
Waiting for life to just pass me by…
