Present tense!

Yesterday I talked to two of my close friends after a long time .. one from Bangalore and one from Kolkata .. when I called them up both of them had gone to sleep .. so early? I wondered .. forgetting that the clock was nearing midnight .. these days my schedule for work has changed so much that the routines of 'normal' people satying at home surprise me a lot.

Coming to this issue .. sleeping .. this is perhaps one of my loveliest pastimes. But recently, I am deprived of this wonderful art! This is the problem of having your guide's office next door and having the boss in the office from 9 in the morning to midnight .. as he loves to stay among the crowd (read students) .. our lives have become miserable!!

On top that .. the ambience of one's office matters a lot .. right now we are having a very serious visitor to our group who is sharing the office with me .. the only interaction I have with that person is the "Hi" in the morning and "Good night" at night. How moronic it can be (you can imagine) .. when your machine hangs up in the middle of plotting and then to get relieved from that frustration you tend to look for someone to talk to .. to share some little PJs .. and find a very serious face glued either to the book or to the machine!

That's why, life is, of late, not as beautiful as it was..