Day 15
6am. Wake up. Check e-mail. Check cell for missed calls... nothing. Go to bathroom, wash up. Carry cell in housecoat pocket. Wash woollens. Check PC. Put wet woollens out in sun to dry. Check PC. Put noodles to boil in pan, come and check PC. Go down to kitchen again, strain noodles, chop carrots, beans and onions. Check PC. Light fry eggs, shred them. Check PC. Make noodles, make tea. Check PC.
8am. Sit down for breakfast. Play with noodle on plate for 15 mins. Gets cold. Throw food in dustbin. Check PC. Look at cell. Take bath, dress up for work. Bring in woolens from outside, place them on dry-line. Check PC before leaving.
10am. Enter office. Switch on room lights, and PC. Check. Take out exam papers. Correct. Sarita, good! Thomas, horrible! Check PC. Knock at door! Look up… Dorothy. Need signature for study tour. Phone rings. Scramble to get from bag… Juri. Checking whether school friends’ get-together is still on. Knock at door! Kong enters asking whether tea is needed. Nod head, take tea and jingbam.
12 noon. Go to lab, check out whether all necessities present. Come back to room. Check PC. Check cell. Check slides for class. Ready. Enter classroom. Students wish. Take class. Show slides. Wish the best for final exams. Come out. Back to room. Check PC. Check cell.
2pm. Phone rings. Mother asking whether will be home for weekends. Knock at door. Swarnalee with queries. Check PC, 2 new mails in inbox. False alarms. Headache from tension, strain, cold. Put on halogen heater, place near table. Knock at door. Kong comes with tea. Make trip to AB, put in LTC papers. See old lecherous Orange-Top on way. Give cold stare. Reach office. Check PC.
4pm. Visit Flirt-with-students Sir’s office. Chat 10 mins about paper setting. Come back. Check PC. Go to I’m-the-best Ma’am’s office. Discuss LTC. Come back. Check PC. Nothing. Sit down to finishing writing paper for Science Congress. Added one word. Knock at door. Genial Sir wants to discuss pathology. Leaves in 15 mins. Check e-mail. None.
6pm. Look out window. Dark outside. Pack up things. Check e-mail. Switch off PC, heater, lights. Leave for home. Reach home. Switch on PC, check. Change clothes, wash up. Check PC. Take out rice, vegetables to cook. No enthusiasm, no hunger. Put vegetables back in fridge. Take out bread. Butter one slice, eat it.
8pm. Switch on TV. Same stories . Mayavati. Pak reply- India reply. Freida Pinto. Look at self. Look at shoulder-length hair trying to grow longer on somebody’s request. Decide to cut it short. Check e-mail. Nothing. Take out clothes to wear to work next day. Remember somebody telling not to buy clothes in economic meltdown. Decide to go shopping next day.
10pm. No e-mails, no calls, no visits. Headache from checking a/c every 10 mins. Neck excruciatingly painful trying to see over shoulder every 5 mins. Switch off TV. Go to bed. Carry Perry Mason novel.
12midnight. Trying to sleep. Tossing and turning. No use.
Tired! Need to Sleep! Need to Eat! Need to Live!
Tired of Waiting.
Postscript
How silly women are! Need to be told to get on with life!
Posted on Bukisa. 16th March 2009. Forgot password, cannot log into Bukisa anymore. LOL.
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