head... jammed between arm and rock hard pillow... the only thing that can get me to sleep at night is a vice like grip (pai, you were the first to notice.. probably during one of your clandestine night time experiments on comatose people... weirdo..)

toes...wrapped up tight.. almost straight jacket like. till morning that is. toes wake up first, slide gingerly out of the cocoon... preliminary reconnaissance.. temperature, sunshine intensity, bad-vibe levels, wind speed and direction...

forecastes predict a good day. not just a not bad day. a real live genuine good day... a 'dium' to be 'carpe'd

brain... shakes off last few vestiges of slumber. mundane things to start with. 'things to do list' making muscles creak into action... anything more ambitious, past experience says, results in instantaneous breakdown... relapse into sleep

(i hate sleep, i always feel like i'm missing out on life and all the things beautiful or otherwise, happening in the universe)

get out of bed on the right side (the left being plastered to the wall... apologies to the humour police)
brush, loo etc.
bathe... water temperature- not particularly fussy, can handle cold water showers well into november. but today is special. anything outside the range of hot to skin scalding may jeopardise prospects for the coming 24 hours
(this of course being contingent on my success in an all too complicated early morning game of bathroom musical chairs. too few geysers... too many girls)
dress... i could just be lazy and throw on a t shirt and jeans (which incidentally haven't been washed in over a month, ma had better not be reading this) but today is no ordinary day... today is a day for looking splendid

*****

the weather in delhi has taken a turn for the beautiful and the coffee is exceptionally good even though i don't have the most exacting standards when it comes to caffeine. i appear sufficiently disinterested for classmates to approach and have successfully managed to frighten the juniors into submission (who are convinced i eat puppies for breakfast everyday)

and a day full of the most brilliant possibilities lies ahead...