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I’ve resigned from the job that I did over the last five-plus years – one that required me to commute a couple of hours every day.
I’ll hopefully be working from home in a few months’ time, but meanwhile I am taking a much-deserved break !
Another reason for this switchover was that the PC and broadband connection I recently obtained was lying idle the entire day – a terrible waste of a resource!
© Sosha Srinivasan
Job wise I’m getting a bit jittery because Obama has threatened to discourage outsourcing in his election manifesto. I think he might do it too because unemployment levels are so high now in the US – though it may be a gradual changeover.
He seems to have serious plans to completely revamp the US health care sector and that may affect my job directly.
… was the salutation with which Anna replied with a loooong mail!
By a coincidence (or ESP?!), she had been searching for me on the Net a few weeks ago.
Another coincidence – we had both done courses in Hotel Management and Catering Technology in the mid ’80s!
And finally, we had major career shifts and both of us now work in the health services field!
How’s that for parallel minds/ parallel lives?
I remember Anna as bubbly, feisty and fun, with a ready smile and a quick wit bordering, at times, on the irreverent. She made me laugh, and how! Yes, I did go though the giggly teen phase, however unlikely that may seem now.
Anna is also very brave. She fell seriously ill after she went back to England and has come through with great strength and fortitude.
Her family are doing well except her dad passed away in 2000.
What strikes me most when I read her mails is how close and supportive her family members are of each other. I’m not really surprised because I remember them as warm, friendly and inclusive – I practically lived at their home – a twenty minute walk from ours – especially over the hols.
© Sosha Srinivasan
No, I’m not cussing, though I guess I should be.
I’ve been skeletally jinxed the last two months – I don’t mean Mr. Bones from the nearest med school anatomy lab is haunting me. It’s just that I’ve had a couple of bad falls – in the first week of March I bounced down a flight of stairs on my rear (only now do I realize having a well-padded backside has its advantages). It took three weeks for the pain in my tailbone to subside, only to be followed by a misstep – it was bad enough that my right foot twisted under me, but then I went and compounded the injury by losing my balance and sitting on it. A couple of hours later it felt like someone had upended a pail of live coals on my foot. X-rays belied my fears – no fracture but moderately severe ligamentous injury. I’ve been vegetating at home – off from work a week now… time enough to reminisce?
© Sosha Srinivasan
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