1. Having children is a natural process in the human lifecycle.2. Having children shouldn't make you quite the course of life you chose.
Armed with these principles, wife left to complete a project. This is going to be an adventurous. She says it is going to be a twosome adventure. Now, wait! Before you jump to conclusions, let me state that she did not jump into it right away. We waited for the 14 week trimester (read here for details) to get over before she left so that everything become stable. That is called being sane. She did not give up and that is called being determined. Now, she is somewhere deep in India, has excellent hosts keeping her well-fed and cared for, and she moves around in a car with a dedicated driver and crate of bottled water and a pack of various lunches.
She told me that she thinks that her uterus is negotiating very hard with other organs especially her stomach and slowly inching forth into stomach territory. This means that her stomach has smaller kingdom and thus, smaller treasury. So, she needs to eat again and again in smaller quantities. Frequent nutritious wholesome balanced are the words we hear a lot these days. The top statement: she is out there doing her job and taking her care very well. The twosome are doing just fine.
The story of student papasoon is somewhat different from what even he imagined it to be. Not an unhappy one. It is different from what it could have been. The student papasoon had always been - live life as you please, eat only when you feel totally hungry and then gorge on food like crazied, health concers are for lesser mortals and music should be loud and constantly played.
It is surprising that the story has turned out to be different. It looks that of a young man having fun, keeping check on health, eating healthy, and not always listening to loud music. Here is how my day was today when they are not here:
7:30 - wake up
8:00 - walk to class with ample time in hand
9:30 - grab a coffee in class break
11:00 - plan the day and get to do the pre-reading for the class at 2:00
1:30 - grab a salad and eat with patience
2:00 - go to class
4: 00 - class over
4:00 - write a blog entry
5:00 - write a job application
6:00 - go to another class
7:00 - class over
7:15 - sit in a meeting with project team
9:30 - meeting over
9:40 - grab some food
10:00 - hit the gym
11:00 shower and out
11:30 - go home
Midnight - ZZZZZ
This is different from what it is when they are around:
7:30 - Wake up but keep cuddling up
7:55 - Realize you are horribly late
7:56 - Kiss wife and cuddle up for another minute
7:57 - Brush your teeth and decide to miss shitting
8:10 - Argue with wife who insists you need to have a banana and milk before leaving
8:12 - kiss and hug wife and leave with banana in bag and milk in a coffee holder
8:14- rush out of house hoping to catch a bus
8:30 - reach class 20 minutes late
8:30 - enter class confidently hoping that your panting tells them you tried very hard
09:30 - coffee and croissant
11:00 - plan the day and sit to do the pre reading for class at 2:00
11:15 - miss wife and call her
11:30 - resolve to sit down to do the pre-reading for the class at 2:00
11:35 - remember that she has run out of coins for laundry
11:36 - call her to let her know and end up talking for 15 minutes about how funny it was meeting her father
11:45 - resolve to do the pre reading
12:00 - realize that you now need to scan not digest the reading
12:00 - start reading but soon remember the banana in the bag
12:30 - start resisting the banana while doing the reading
12:35 - take out the banana and feel great
12:36 - continue reading
1:00 - wife calls reminding to have lunch and insists that you have it now cause health is important
1:01 - argument about long term and short term goal and relative importance of reading and lunch
1:15: decide to have lunch anyway
1:30: walk to cafe and order and eat
1:45 - decide no point studying now
1:46 - call wife and talk to her about how life would be ten years later
2:00 - go to class
2:30 - receive a text message telling you how your baby inside her is kicking
2:30 - start trying to figure out moments to check text message
2:45 - check the message
2: 50 - realize you were day dreaming and hide your face to avoid getting cold called
4: 00 - class over; you rush home, calling her to prepare some team
4:00 - have a good time sipping tea with wife and planning on where your kid will go to college
5:30 - leave for another class
6:00 - go to another class
6:45 - receive text asking if you want to have pasta for dinner
7:00 - check text; answer; class over
7:00 - project meeting begins, you try hard to focus
9:30 - meeting over; rush home
9:40 - have a hearty full meal; it is not pasta as you thought; it is a full meal complete with dessert
10:15 - dinner over; husband wife feeling awesome
10:30 - call folks back in India
11:30 - hit the bed
Midnight - ZZZZZ
Needless to say I am missing them and I have taken tonnes of creative freedom with this post! :)
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