Good morning, Tuesday

Spent the night waking up :
Woke at three with leg cramps. Sleep-walked till it got better.
Woke at five to wake baby brother to go to work.
Woke at five thirty to make breakfast for baby bro.
Woke at six thirty to get ready for work.
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Does MTNL have an overseas branch?
The leg cramps were made worse after reading a 3 am text (IST) from Mr.R saying that his phone was dead and not likely to start working before Saturday. And I was SO looking forward to having a good chat with him today. The more technology improves, the more inconveniences it causes when it doesn't work.
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The train journey to work was peaceful today. Not having slept much, I thought I'd feel better if i meditated, so I practiced Vipassana for about 45 minutes. For those of you who have done the course and survived, you know that it changes the way you look at Life and how you react to things happening around you. Although I was sandwiched between two people, had a third standing on my foot and got poked rudely on the shoulder a couple of times, I maintained my equanimity (AR, don't laugh, if you're reading this). Felt great. Must do this more often. Going for a refresher course would be terrific, but getting 10 days at a stretch doesn't seem a likely possibility till sometime mid 2005, what with all the other plans. Well, someday.......

For the non-initiated, there's a lot of information available on www.dhamma.org. Go have a look; you have nothing to lose and everything to gain. I promise!
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