It’s a lazy lazy lazy day here!
As is valid for most Saturdays in my office, I am ruling the whole Islamabad Bureau, which basically means that I have pretty much the whole Bureau Staff at my disposal and still, it’s an empty office save the office boys and receptionist. So, I try to manage things on my own and not bother anyone else as much as I can help it.

Things have been pretty quiet lately. I got my mark sheet for CSS exams yesterday and much to my delight…my mother reported that my father was apparently satisfied with my score. And what satisfies me is the fact that I scored an A in my Economics papers, my best grade in any subject. So I guess, in a way I justified that I was once, an economics student.

Bhai has been very busy lately or rather it seems to me that he is keeping himself busy. So I see very little of him these days. When shan was here for his semester break, the whole family couldn’t get together even once due to bhai’s schedule. We are supposed to have dinner with Aban’s family tonight…provided bhai makes it back by dinner time.

Next week looks busy. Sanny’s birthday, my channel’s anniversary and a party we are throwing for Sajeela since she got engaged MashaAllah. Faiza & fariha are my only two friends from University left who are still single. I was saying to Bhai yesterday that as single girls, I feel like a species that is facing extinction. Call me an old dinosaur if you will while the rest of the world is evolving to survive this battle of the fittest.

I borrowed one of Aban’s books yesterday because I seem to have exhausted my supply of books and this month I am on a strict budget so I cant spend any money unless its absolutely necessary. The book is actually a compilation of Emily Dickinson’s poetry. I read some of her poems in college. There’s one poem that I think is agonizingly true.

The Mystery of Pain

Pain has an element of blank;
It cannot recollect
When it began, or if there were
A day when it was it was not

It has no future but itself,
Its infinite realms contain
Its past, enlightened to perceive
New periods of pain