Insomnia of sorts

I was always the person to pride myself on the amount of undisturbed sleep I could get. Always poking fun at people who said,‘I just cannot get any sleep’, seems as if, recently I have been cursed by the entire lot!

The last week has been the craziest, as mentioned in earlier posts. Staying up late into the morning, and sleeping more than halfway into the day. However, I have decided to change this cycle, knowing that this is rather short lived, and I would be a part of a rigorous grind soon, and should not get too used to this life of sleep filled luxury.

So night before last, I went to bed at 4am (early by around 3 hours, by my standards), and lay awake in bed till 9am! Tried music, books, counting sheep, counting to 1000 – nothing helped!

Although the first failure did not dishearten me much, I tried again, last night; with good purpose in mind. I was to be up by 7am to get the 8 ‘o’ clock bus to the city, catch a movie, good lunch at Koregoan Park followed by cake (mind you, Richa said a whole cake, and not some mangy pastry!) and then get back. Swetha had sent an email across to us, fellow barbarians atop the hill Lavale, and we had RSVP’d back to her! So that was the big plan, and after a very successful screening of ‘Its Complicated’ in Swetha’s room, where Richa almost killed herself choking on a Balaji chip (Yes, you may laugh now, if you want to. Instantly, it was not funny, because we thought she was dying, but later, when she tried to make conversation in her hollowed and husky voice, hilarious. Period.), we decided to sleep early so that everyone made the bus this time.

Obediently, I went to sleep at around 1, setting an alarm for 7am.

A sudden noise, and I stirred, to see that the roommate was up and about, doing all kinds of things – poor thing had an interview in Mumbai this morning. I checked my phone, and ahoy, it was 4:26am. And that was the end of my peaceful sleep.

So here I am, sitting with a huge mug of coffee, listening to all favourite tracks from all the Disney animated movies. The sky is lightening, soon it will be azure, turning into a lighter blue and then the beautiful Lavale sunrise, that I have been seeing so much of, lately.

Whatever said and done, there will be some things I will most certainly miss about this place – this moment being one of those.