Yet another day!

A few highs:
a) Weathered the devastation - Day 1. Managed to be myself and even had a brief conversation. (Can they ever be called conversations?)
b) Pleasant surprises
Pleasant surprise 1 - my garage mechanic friend called. How sweet is that?To find out how I was doing...:).

Pleasant surprise 2 - Genny called to say Divya would call (now isn't that cute? actually Genny called yesterday to say Divya would call...aaah! just a detail, but I'm pernickety about details. They say God lies in the details). Diyva called. Invite - Thursday dinner confirmed.

Pleasant surprise 3 - Kamesh (my garage mechanic 'dost') said Andy had become a proud (isn't that how they always qualify it....poor thing, like as if he or any man can ever overtly admit that he's not 'proud' or happy) father of a boy. Planned as usual to go to Coorg with him over some weekend to see his child. Hope this time it works out.

Pleasant surprise 4 - "To the most beautiful person I know" - wow! Amit is such a sweetheart. He says the nicest things and man, how I needed that to bolster my 'numb' spirits. He presents a book on "How To Be Idle". I think my talking of dying really psyched him. LOL. Shoot! I shouldn't have. How I shoot my mouth off. (He wants me to give my hyperactive mind a rest).

Pleasant surprise 5 - Since Amit had finished with his exams, I decided to go to Opus with him for what seemed (and turned out) to be an interesting evening. A play and dinner (actually it was more like character monologues if it can be described thus) - I'm on Opus' mailing list - so 6 women enacted or mouthed their characters while it rained. People sitting under umbrellas sipping beer, or squatting on cushions, sitting on chairs, standing against textured walls (us), nibbling at hors d'oeuvres, enjoying, laughing, applauding. Very nice. Indeed. Met Vivek Madan, a somebody in the Bangalore theatre scene. Saw Rani Jeyaraj... so?...and it was such a chilled out evening with Vanilla ice cream and Hershey's for dessert making it the perfect finale. Hmm!

Pleasant surprise 6 - Gloria Gaynor's 'I will survive' at Opus - boy oh boy!

Pleasant surprise 7 - My blog here came up in Google's top 5 when one searched for idiosyncrazies. What's better is that my other blog got listed too. Crazy? No idiosyncrazy (PJ!)

What is the weekend looking like? I want to go dancing. Amit's now my only 'anytime' buddy with whom I can go anywhere. So perhaps 'Spinn' or maybe 'Zero G' (though the music there sucks everytime I've been there). I think 'Spinn' - haven't been there in a long long time. And maybe go to Cafe Mosaic later. Sounds good. I need to survive.

"You make me want to be a better man" - one of the most moving, romantic lines ever written. And what do I talk about? Parallel universes, illusions and cocker spaniels. Sigh!