- I do not miss blogging as much as I thought I would. When I first stopped blogging regularly, I would sometimes find myself composing posts in my head while something worth writing was happening, but not anymore.
- But I miss my blog friends a lot. We’ve all more or less stopped blogging and it’s just not the same. I knew this could happen, of course, but I made the rookie mistake of thinking we were going to be different.
- I really wish I hadn’t stopped studying French.
- I am crazy superstitious. I don’t cross the road immediately if a black cat crosses it, I spit three times if someone jinxes something – I am obsessed with jinxes – and I don’t drive over nimbu-mirchi on roads.
- I cannot get off Twitter because of work, but I think Twitter influencers are pretentious and insufferable. No one talks like that in real life.
- The basics of Bengali that I learned trying to impress my boyfriend at 18 come in handy now that 75% of my team is Bengali.
- I don’t know how to achieve this – given my profession – but I really want to delete Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram from my phone.
- My family got our first dog when I was 6, and the second when I was 12. Both of them died of natural causes after several years with us, and now I cannot even imagine getting another one for the fear of going through that all over again.
- I am one of those people who think therapy is magical and everyone should go to a therapist, but I’ve tried it twice – once at 16 and again at 26 – and I hated it both times. It did nothing for me.
- I regret not getting a masters in psychology.
- My best friend is still my best friend, but we barely talk.
- I have been very lucky with my friendships – I got great friends out of school, college, and my first and second jobs, so now I’m worried that my quota of making new friends is full and I won’t be able to make any going forward.
- I have a crush on Cole Sprouse but it makes me feel weird because he’s two years younger.
- I do not like Goa trips.
- I have smoked up four times in my life and I enjoy it a lot more than I thought I would.
- I still hate the taste of alcohol and cigarettes.
- I used to be very worried about burning bridges (I still am), but this quote makes me feel much better – “May the bridges I burn light the way.”
- I also love the malaphor “We’ll burn that bridge when we get to it.”
- I love books about sibling relationships. My favourites are both by Jandy Nelson – The Sky is Everywhere and I’ll Give You the Sun.
- When I found out that Gillian Flynn wasn’t working on anything after Gone Girl, I promised myself I wouldn’t read her first – Sharp Objects – till she announces a new book. I am saving it for my rock bottom.
- I really, really hate Chinese food. And all my friends love it.
- I am always surprised by how homesick I get even today, though it’s been seven years since I first moved out.
- This year marks a decade since I finished school and that makes me feel super fucking old.
- My family is from UP, but I grew up in Rajasthan. I am constantly surrounded by people who are so proud of their heritage and so entrenched in their culture, and I feel like I have no sense of it, despite being from two states that have so much of it.
- I am not a fan of dessert.
Sunday, June 18, 2017
25 things you didn’t know about me (and probably don’t care to either)
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I still read what you write, though. Here and elsewhere.
ReplyDeleteThat makes me very happy but also keeps me on my toes.
DeleteI was wondering if you had stopped blogging completely! Please continue doing these sporadic posts. I love your writing. :)
ReplyDeleteRight back at you :)
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