An idle-ic weekend

This weekend has turned out to be a good one. Completely lazy and pointless. One of those weekends where I have the radio going in the background, and lie around on my bed with a couple of books for intermittent reading (Jack Welch - Straight from the Gut (total ego trip), Karen Armstrong - A History of God (interesting, informative), James Joyce - A Portrait of the artist as a young man (reserve judgment until completion)) , mostly just thinking. It was also a weekend for catching up - called up about five friends overseas, and sent/ received lots of email all over the place.

This was probably one of the last such weekends for the next six months. The dates are in - I appear before the consulate in Mumbai for a visa interview on 14 March. If all goes well, I fly to Buffalo, NY on 19 March.

Before that comes a hectic fortnight of tooling up for the new role, shopping, packing, saying goodbyes all around, one more quick trip home, etc. And in the middle of all this, a move to a new office. Our department is shifting to what is being called GLT (HSBC Globaly Technology Centre) 1.5 - GLT 1.0 being the old office, and GLT 2.0 being our new under-construction office to replace the intermediate solution. The new place is shitty, compared to 1.0, but what the hell.

Thing about where my life currently is, is, the changes that define it involve a lot of "possibly permanent" goodbyes. Some five or six friends are already onsite (one more left this Friday). I'm going, and it is unlikely that we'll all meet up again. By the time I come back, some of these may leave the company. Then there is that nagging feeling I have that an MBA will soon be a pressing concern. Ah well... inflexion points - can't help but love 'em.