A weekend of calls and conversations

This has been a rather mixed bag of a weekend for me. First, Nirva left for India for her sister's wedding on Saturday evening which made me sad because I won't be seeing her until the 24th. And one of my other housemates Neha left as well (coincidentally for her brother's wedding), leaving just 2 people in the house - effectively just me because my other housemate is rarely around. And I am still not used to living alone in this house, although last night I did sleep with my room lights off (you will be proud to know my dear). And today (Sunday) I had to spend hours trying to understand the requirements of the new project for which I have been made the defacto Project Manager. For some reason, I am finding it very difficult to understand the domain as well as accept this whole business of PM work. I so wish I didn't have to do this, but it seems that everyone around me except for me thinks this is a good career move for me. I have to submit pricing, proposal and project plan by Wednesday and I have not had a start at any of the 3 areas yet - the whole day was spent in reading the old documents and trying to understand what is the project about since the users expect me to know all the details beforehand. I don't know how I will fare in this but I don't have a good feeling about this.

Anyway, apart from the dreary things above, the good and surprising thing that happened this weekend were phone calls - this truly was a weekend of calls. On Saturday evening, first I spoke to Kartik (my cousin) and Krithika (my bhabhi) in Mumbai for an hour and fifteen minutes. After that I called home and spoke with my parents for about 25 minutes. This was followed by a 40 minute conversation with Shankar mama (my uncle). And before the night was over, I spoke with Ramesh in the U.S. (Kartik's younger brother) for a good 25 minutes. To top it all, this morning, my mother called me and I got to speak with two of my cousin sisters Shubha and Janani. So all in all, this has been a weekend of calls and conversations - of catching up with family, something which I had meant to do for a long time. Of late many of my relatives were getting a bit angry with me for not calling them, since I used to be very punctual and diligent at that earlier. I hope I have addressed everyone's qualms adequately this time-:)