Saturday, February 26, 2011

A Dream Day

A day in the life of Abhirama the Librarian:

Scene 1: Home
Early Morning. Wakes up and decides that he could use another hour of sleep and gets up leisurely. Ablutions. Reads the newspaper for half an hour or so. Has a relaxed breakfast followed by a super filter coffee. Flasks up a couple more cups and starts for the library.

Scene 2: The Library
Reaches the library by 10 (on his cycle of course). Opens the shutters, sets things up and hopes for a not too busy day. Puts on some nice music and starts reading a book with his flask just beside him. Sips some coffee now and then. Helps out a few people find their books and issues them. It's 1 PM now. He's hungry now. He calls up a couple of his friends and they have a simple lunch together. He gets back to the library, pulls the shutters down, goes inside the Librarian's Lounge and takes a nap. Wakes up at around 4 PM. He's very fresh now. He opens the shutters back up and continues reading where he left off. It's peak time now. He's interrupted a lot more now but doesn't mind the interruptions. He helps out people find their books and even recommends one or two. Time flies. It's 8 PM. He shuts down the library for the day and gets back home. The weather is very pleasant and he enjoys the ride back home. Dinner awaits him.

Scene 3: Home
Has a nice simple dinner. Watches some TV. Puts some music on and goes back to reading. It's midnight now. He's very sleepy. He puts the book away and quickly falls asleep.

My dream job right now is to be a librarian. What's yours?

Friday, February 11, 2011

Cycling to office

Started cycling to office yesterday. It's about 13 km one way and it's one of the busiest roads in the city right now. Quite fun these two days have been. The bad part though has been that I have to carry my laptop bag and some clothes which makes it very heavy (heavier on the way back for some reason). Oh and I found out a way to beat BMWs and Mercedeses (how do you say that?) at attention grabbing - wear some cycling gear and head out onto the streets on an expensive cycle. Trust me. You'll get all the attention on the road!

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Crossroads

I've had this feeling for the last couple of days now, that I'm at one of those so called crossroads in life. The feeling that I've finally become brave enough to not do what I don't like and do what I want to. The feeling that my life's going to change quite dramatically sometime soon.