Gin & Juice

The birthday came and lasted 3 days! :D Started off with late night calls from the boy, the family, the relatives n present from the housemate! A great cake and celebration at the office, dinner n drinks with great friends, cake – flowers – chocolates from the boy (special thanks to the “delivery man”), and awesome presents. Lots of wishes from friends across the world (partial thanks to Facebook) and finally a birthday lunch with the office friends today (all paid for by the boss).

I haven’t stopped grinning all this while and feel sooooooooooo loved!

EPL has started and I’ll finally be watching soccer again! I miss watching the late night matches over summer (Euro 2004 was it?) when the nights were long, getting high was fun, and life was simpler. When mother did not lecture about sleeping early, the bro fixed the mid night snack, and soccer players were cute (and talented, I’m sure)! Oh fun days!

So long distance with the boy sucks, especially since we’d recently been spending a lot of time together. Life’s not fallen apart but IMs limit conversation, as does family. I miss.

Speaking of IM’s – it’s strange that I have these detailed, intimate conversations with certain people where we talk about everything, from the weather to troubles/relationships/plans. And then we meet in person, and we hardly have anything to say to each other. Suddenly conversations are stunted and a half-baked joke are forced to bridge the silences. Or better yet, in big groups, we almost *avoid* any direct conversation? What with the dry pleasantries and quickly looking away.

Why can’t it flow as easily as it does over IM? Is facing people so difficult now that we prefer the veil of text than voices?