A Decade on the Net

I know I got my first email ID ten years ago, because, even back then, various “poupee”s were taken and I was left with poupee69 onwards. Well, I thought 69 is not such a nice number to have associated with my name, so I took the year, which was 97. It was a hotmail ID, [...]

Potter Mania

I know I have a memory like a sieve – it retains a few chunks here and there, but throws away the details. This, in any case, was amply demonstrated by the number of times I led my faithful followers astray in the Himalayas recently. But now I have a second demonstration of it.
I don’t [...]

I’m Going to Try

I rarely write poetry; I have no feel for it. But sometimes, my brain just goes into “rhyme” mode and I can’t help it. SO, with all due apologies for letting this horrible creation see the light of day…
I’m Going to Try
Trying to think in rhyme,
Is a great way to kill time;
Don’t you know that [...]

Voluntary Unemployment

I finally quit my job.

I’ve done this many times before – different jobs, I mean – and it’s different every time. There’s always some sadness, but there are always so many other things mixed up with that. This time, there’s a dry sense of frustration, and a sense of resignation in addition to the sadness: [...]

Dissembled at Home

For reasons that will be explained in another blog, soon, we decided to buy a personal home computer. After much debate and due consideration, we decided against a laptop (too expensive) and against a branded desktop (too expensive) and decided to buy an assembled computer. Then - we’re not quite sure, looking back, how it [...]

The WOW Factor

It feels like a bit of an anticlimax… the German exam is over and I did well. In fact, I – along with another woman – topped the class. Ho hum.
Last time, when I unexpectedly did well, I was thrilled! That time, I took the exam after a four month break from class, so scoring [...]

Bats? Rats!

Apparently, they don’t like the rain either. One got into our apartment the other day and was running around between the bedroom and the dining room as though it owned the place. Errrrrrrrrrrgh! It was up to Amit to deal with it, of course, which he did by pointing it to the balcony door, which [...]

Teaching Un-thinking

Although it tends to get overshadowed by my German exam, which looms large this weekend and contains horrors such as the spoken part of the test, I have not entirely forgotten that I am also studying Archaeology and that that course is also slowly nearing its end.

This does not flood me with the same [...]

Death-by-chocolate Day

I allow myself only two per year, and this was the second for this year, so it’s kind of a big day for me today. It’s the kind of day you think about, dream about, drool over… until finally you can’t wait any longer. It was supposed to be my end-of-german-class treat to myself, but, [...]