  -  thought i would start my nu post with a witty,  smart- ass line.  but cant think of any right now,  in fact,
 have been tryin to think up one since the afternoon .  :  .  so figured i would do the honors WITHOUT it.  :  umm.
 had an okay types weekend.  saturday was spent in shoppin and pigging out at various places.  yep,  pigging out at various places too!  no wonder i look the way i do.  ah yes,
 something unusual happened in my usually monotonous day- to- day existence.  i ACTUALLY started writing a story!  thanks pramila for goading me into doin that.  :
 though the end result wasn't anything to write about ( yep,  i 'expected' it to at least be _SOMEWHAT_ interesting.  have too big an ego not to.  )  but ended up churning out a pile of mush :
 big enough to bury big fat moi under it.  sunday was when i completed a quarter- century on this planet.  nope wasnt on Pluto before that.  just a hopefully- smart way of putting across the fact that i turned 25 that day.
 : P.  so it felt _REALLY_ nice to get calls/ mails/ visits from friends/ relatives/
acquaintances.  there were a couple of surprises.  a bunch of neighborhood kids came over to wish me a happy birthday.  with an _IMPOSSIBLY CUTE_ card.  and i was like WOW!  :
 touched beyond words and very,  very pleasantly surprised.  they promised to remember my bday the next year too.  double WOW!  :  then late at night,
 a friend of mine called up.  now we were together at school for a coupla years.  and he is like the _MOST ADORABLE PRANKSTER_ i have ever come across.  but i had lost touch with him since long.  and hence wasnt expecting his call or any surprises.  now this guy calls up and pretends to be the dad of a common friend of ours(
umm,  who kinda likes me and whom im still in touch with)  and this first guy can mimic just as well too.  so imagine my surprise when he calls up and asks about me,  my parents,  life in general.
 i was amazed as anything.  since never before had his dad called me up ever ( and why would he?  it was only when he got to the part about how X( the guy who likes me)  keeps on talking about me,
 and all good things too,  did i smell a rat!  and then i realised who it must be.  :  but hey,  it felt good to be on the receiving end of his sweeeeet pranks after a long long time.
 :  made me feel ancient too,  when i thought about the passage of time since i left school.  monday was goood and baaaad.  good coz when i came in to work,  i found that all our systems have been attacked by some kinda virus and we couldnt even log in.
 so the day( well,  most of it anyways)  was spent in the cafe.  ( cribbing and pigging out,
 what else?  ,  readin this new epic i have started on .  'the pillars of the earth' by ken follett.  ( and btw,
 i have only good things to say about it,  its REALLY nice .  and come to think of it,  i can never ace the GRE.  i cant think of any adjectives beyond 'good' and 'nice' to describe a thing i like!  )
 ,  taking long walks downstairs ( did i mention that the weather has been nicer ( shit,  there i go again!  over the last couple of days)
 having the luxury of time on my hands and NOT knowing what to do with it.  the luxury of enjoying a looong lunch without worrying about going back to my desk to complete what i had left off before it.  the luxury of being able to just stare back at my comp.  the luxury of just roaming around the office without any purpose,  chatting up other people just for the heck of it etc etc.  if you are wondering why dont i quit my job and do all these things otherwise,
 well,  the obvious reason is i need the moolah.  and also the fact that i wouldnt know what else to do!  anyhow.  so everywent fine until just around 5 when things started to fall back into place.  and then we had to go back to work again.
 this brings me to today.  hasnt been any better either.  with work,  work and only work all the way through.  doesnt help that i am supposed to be working on two different pieces of work at the same time.  people coming over to me from all over the place.
 asking if i have done anything of note since the past few days.  it isnt a particularly happy feeling to admit that you havent.  both for me and them.  lunch ( the only event i look forward to at office btw : D)
 was horrible too.  they served mushrooms.  and i had to summon every ounce of my will- power NOT to look at them.  well,  i did look at them.
 ( sheepish smile.  in fact,  stare like hell would be more like it,  smacking my lips when i remembered their heavenly taste.  )
 but they seemed to be made in oil rather than gravy.  and i closed my eyes and tried to remind myself how i had looked in a full- length mirror the last time i had the courage to do that.  and voila!  i found that i could actually avert my eyes from the serving and look at the watery dal instead.  had dal and roti and MACARONI (
YUMMMMMMMMMM!  for lunch.  now dont ask me what was i doing having macaroni.  hell,  i cant pass up _TWO_ yummy delicacies at a time!  btw,
 while i was shamelessly loading my plate with a HUGE helping of macaroni,  i tried my best not to remember my mirror image.  : P umm.  he didnt call up on my bday.  an absolutely irrational,
 optimistic,  and crazy part of me had thought he would.  but i guess the thought WAS crazy after all!  heck,  i am ashamed to admit how that single wish,  a two-
minute call/ msg/ buzz/ whatever,  had it happened,  would have meant more to me than _ALL_ the other wishes combined.
 its as Drew BarryMore said in 'Charlie's Angels' .  " Its just my luck,  I finally find the perfect guy,  but he already has the perfect girl"  .
 but come to think of it,  had he been perfect,  he would have cared for me,  no?  doesnt make me _WANT_ him ( in all possible ways one can imagine)
 _ANY_ less though.  <
