I deserve to be read – 2

Must be all this regular posting I’m doing now – my IndiRank has moved up from #32 to #65 – yes, up not down.  Indiblogger really should change that title to IndiScore…

Strange to see their Indiblogger badges are themed on dog-blog puns – odd because we had a stray black mutt that adopted our family in the 1980s when we lived at Kottivakkam, and out of sheer laziness I guess (plus a reluctance to call it by one of the common names people tend to give dogs here like ‘Jimmy’ or ‘Tommy’!) my cousin George and I came up with “Blog” (a combination of BLack dOG – get it?)!

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Sorry guys!!

I am down with an especially severe bout of the flu. Expect to be back next weekend.

Hocus pocus

Morten asked how come I added an “h” to my first name.

I did it because it then sounds closer to the correct pronounciation.

I have also been told that my name has better vibes “numerologically” with that extra letter.  Of course a rational, thinking person like me would never subscribe to that kind of hocus pocus, would she?

I did it for the first reason – ‘h’ for honest!

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Our best and our brightest

I tracked down (I’m beginning to sound like a police sniffer dog, don’t you think?!) my History teacher at IST, Ms In den Bosch. She mailed back and tells me she still maintains a close friendship with Mr Copleston (our Geography teacher at IST) and his wife “across the years and the continents” as she puts it. (She lives in the US and he is based in Europe). I am impressed – it shows what a little commitment can do for a friendship.

It was only after I hit the ‘Send’ button on my reply that I remembered that she lives and works in Virginia – and I hadn’t mentioned, let alone condoled, the terrible Virginia Tech killings. She may have believed me thoughtless. It was oversight – my apologies.

We have lost so many of our best and our brightest in that tragedy. In today’s world of instant news and streaming video, it all seems so immediate even though I live half way across the world. How must it seem to someone who lives in the same state, who perhaps knows someone directly touched by the killings?

I hope all those affected somehow find the strength to come through what essentially was a senseless massacre.

© Sosha Srinivasan