Wide Open Spaces

I’m having an attack of claustrophobia. More than my physical world, it’s the feeling of something closing in on me from the inside. I don’t know if you’ve ever felt this but it gives you a craving for walking down long roads alone in the rain. Anyway, it’s too bad all the roads I can take right now are packed with rush hour traffic, every hour. Maybe I just want to see a wide stretch of nothingness, open spaces as far as the eye can see. I can imagine it...a gray sky, a stiff breeze, the play of light, a place to watch the trees move from and maybe even someone to watch it all with.

I know, I know. It sounds like a badly written opening to a romantic tragedy. I’m not good with angst. So yeah, open spaces. If it doesn’t make me even more lachrymose, it might be a good idea.

Back to reality

I’m back! My semester holidays were mostly spent in a holiday trip to Malaysia, Singapore, Delhi and Varanasi. It was good. I saw a lot of new places, met a few really awesome people, got tired of planes, loved the city lights at night and the long drives during the day, lived out of a suitcase and missed home like crazy. Whatever said and done, there’s no place like your own hopelessly messy room.

I’ve started college again and it is as horrible as it has always been. My ex-HOD now takes class for me and I’m going crazy. A couple of my other staff are equally rage-inducing. Also, Chennai is scorching hot! It’s really bad and if there’s a power cut, we’re doomed for the rest of the day. Even a few hours without any air conditioning is intolerable.

Oh, and I blew up my computer. Again. There was smoke coming out of the CPU and everything. I have no clue why or how it happened. I attract computer trouble like a saree shop attracts my mom. I’m resigned to it, sadly. However, this does seem like a bad omen. Maybe I’m in the wrong professional line. I don’t think people will like me blowing up systems when I’m a software engineer.