Prose before hos

A colleague at work quit his job the same day I broke up with my (now) ex. It went something like this— my ex and I had the break up conversation while I was on my way to work. My colleague called me shortly after I had reached office. I was sitting numb, nauseated and wondering if I should get to checking numbers for the...

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Hi, It's been a perfect day. Perfect because it started with a call from you. No, really. I didn't pay attention to the fact that I got rejected by two Uber drivers while on that call. I didn't even pay my Uber driver, and when I reached my desk, I realized that I owed him INR 576.44 for a ride Uber promised me for INR 424....

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"I don't care for what's done, I want to see what you do."Okay. Okay. I paid 10 plus dollars on renewing the domain so I need to make an effort in writing here and I've got a pestering friend/fan/reader who asked what he did so here goes. Over 10k spent on workout/athleisure.26.4 km walked in Winflow in a month-ish? (with Delhi Summer, Del-Ggn bs, debilitating...

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 If you tell your friends that you miss meOr that if they ask you to stop and focus on your work, your job—wait, that's why you called it off, right? You were finding it hard to focus a night beforeI wonder if you remember my quirks. The Oscars are tomorrowI will watch all the films I possibly can, and complain that people in...

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I don't think I need to wait any longer to announce— 2025 has sucked dead monkey balls. I used to think the year my grandparents died respectively were possibly the toughest years of my life. I don't quite remember the years exactly but losing two grandparents in the years when I was a teenager shaped a big part of my life outside school, and...

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The first time I heard someone sing and play Que sera, sera was in our school's music room. A tiny, damp, stinking cubicle with no utilities, we were made to sit on the ground and the lyrics for the new hymn would be on the board before we could settle inside. In a year, we probably learned 5 new hymns, even if we...

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A few weeks ago, I (thought) I'd disabled this page and the last entry was in the same vein. Of course, women in stem had a late realisation that not only is this page active but that very embarrassing last post is fucking public. Since then I've had a few life-altering things go down, including, but not limited to—Seeing Dua Lipa live. I might...

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