Planning for the short and long term
I got locked out of my personal yahoo account and I feel rather silly about the whole thing. There was some sort of a temporary access problem during which I tried too many times to log in and it simply said that I was locked out and that was that. I waited another 12 hours and it was still locked out. So next I plan to try after 24 hours of not trying. This sucks! I want to send so many emails to people but all of them are in my yahoo address book and I have no idea how to mail them.
Lessons learnt from this are two fold. One that I should back up my address book regularly about every 6 months into some excel spreadsheet just in case so that I can contact people. And secondly, that I should keep my personal info updated in the email accounts that I use regularly so that I can answer the secret question to retrieve my password. It seems like my secret question of what my pet is something that confounds the hell out of me. I have tried so many of my pets’ names but I am really not sure what the answer is. Oh by the way, if you want me to send you a yahoo offline message when I blog, please let me know. My yahoo ID is duncehappy. I’ll send you a message each time I blog. I have very few people who have requested this so far but I thought I should let you other folks know as well.
This week has been rather slow. I am going to start training for my new designation next week and I am sort of excited about that. I am trying to read a book on Perl to start me off but after the first 50 pages I haven’t made much progress. Anytime I have something to read my attendance at the gym seems higher. It seems like I would rather go to the gym regularly than read something academic. I think I will have to do some All-nighters before I finish that book. Somehow, reading in the quiet of the night has always had better results for me. Way more productive than anything in the day time for me.
I am still contemplating going to India by the end of the year. I really want to go but I really don’t want to go. I am trying to get my parents to commit to a week off in Kerala or something, but they aren’t so keen. They’d rather have me come and do nothing at home in Chennai where I get really bored and fat at the same time from all the eating. Now, if I knew of clubs in Chennai it would be a different story but I don’t. So I am not sure what I should do. Maybe I should go over to Bombay where I can go clubbing but then I have to make arrangements. So much thinking involved. I have 4 weeks off by the end of the year and I’m afraid that I will not have the opportunity to get 4 weeks off at a time. Maybe Mexico will be cheaper and a better trip. Who knows? Even vacations seem so rather complex. All of this in spite of the fact that I have no other people to plan this and complicate matters. Taking vacations on my own makes me feel really good actually, but I always feel like it gets too expensive for one person.
I have also been thinking recently about moving to New York or Northern California. I looked at some job websites but they all seem like so much work to find a job and then move all your stuff to a new city and set up your bank accounts and everything else. Moreover big cities are so expensive that you have to spend a lot more to get a lot less. Work seems so stressful.
I have recently written down stuff for things that I want done when I become incapacitated or die. I need to convert these into legalese but that can wait. I have been simply meaning to come up with some sort of document so that I can know what I want done to me. So finally I wrote it down after the longest time of thinking about it. I mentioned this to LOH and he was a bit concerned about whether I had gotten suicidal when I gave him a list of contacts if something happens to me. I simply want to get this thing done and put this "unpleasant" task behind me so I wont have to deal with it in the near future.
Mood: I am in a planning mood but not much of a doing mood. Rather somber.
Lessons learnt from this are two fold. One that I should back up my address book regularly about every 6 months into some excel spreadsheet just in case so that I can contact people. And secondly, that I should keep my personal info updated in the email accounts that I use regularly so that I can answer the secret question to retrieve my password. It seems like my secret question of what my pet is something that confounds the hell out of me. I have tried so many of my pets’ names but I am really not sure what the answer is. Oh by the way, if you want me to send you a yahoo offline message when I blog, please let me know. My yahoo ID is duncehappy. I’ll send you a message each time I blog. I have very few people who have requested this so far but I thought I should let you other folks know as well.
This week has been rather slow. I am going to start training for my new designation next week and I am sort of excited about that. I am trying to read a book on Perl to start me off but after the first 50 pages I haven’t made much progress. Anytime I have something to read my attendance at the gym seems higher. It seems like I would rather go to the gym regularly than read something academic. I think I will have to do some All-nighters before I finish that book. Somehow, reading in the quiet of the night has always had better results for me. Way more productive than anything in the day time for me.
I am still contemplating going to India by the end of the year. I really want to go but I really don’t want to go. I am trying to get my parents to commit to a week off in Kerala or something, but they aren’t so keen. They’d rather have me come and do nothing at home in Chennai where I get really bored and fat at the same time from all the eating. Now, if I knew of clubs in Chennai it would be a different story but I don’t. So I am not sure what I should do. Maybe I should go over to Bombay where I can go clubbing but then I have to make arrangements. So much thinking involved. I have 4 weeks off by the end of the year and I’m afraid that I will not have the opportunity to get 4 weeks off at a time. Maybe Mexico will be cheaper and a better trip. Who knows? Even vacations seem so rather complex. All of this in spite of the fact that I have no other people to plan this and complicate matters. Taking vacations on my own makes me feel really good actually, but I always feel like it gets too expensive for one person.
I have also been thinking recently about moving to New York or Northern California. I looked at some job websites but they all seem like so much work to find a job and then move all your stuff to a new city and set up your bank accounts and everything else. Moreover big cities are so expensive that you have to spend a lot more to get a lot less. Work seems so stressful.
I have recently written down stuff for things that I want done when I become incapacitated or die. I need to convert these into legalese but that can wait. I have been simply meaning to come up with some sort of document so that I can know what I want done to me. So finally I wrote it down after the longest time of thinking about it. I mentioned this to LOH and he was a bit concerned about whether I had gotten suicidal when I gave him a list of contacts if something happens to me. I simply want to get this thing done and put this "unpleasant" task behind me so I wont have to deal with it in the near future.
Mood: I am in a planning mood but not much of a doing mood. Rather somber.
posted by Dunce Happy at 12:46 PM
2 Comments:
lol. sounds like something out of a james bond movie - all this planning. where's the gorgeous entity in de swimsuit now?
:) tease. i bet you plan way more than me. anyways, it was just one day. i am over all the planning for now. all i can think of is about when my next dance class is. :)
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