November Notes

 Ever since I last wrote, life has been a roller-coaster. One of them has been a fight at the personal front. I am tired of accusations, counter-accusations and such right now. Especially that I know the person on the other side will not understand a single word of what I am saying, nor will try to. Yet, I am at a point, where I feel intense humiliation to carry on exactly the way I have. My instinct is to say no to everything, run away, and never ever have any contact with this person. But, I don't think that is possible now, because of several workplace obligations. But, this is something that has sucked me out of my emotional resources, leaving me angry, sad and extremely confused at times. Other than that, the world continues to be steeped into deep crisis. 

I took a look through the list I had made for herself during my last post. Of those, the creative writing essay had been done and submitted. It was a hard thing to get done, since in the middle, my laptop crashed. The hard disk had crashed, and so far, no one has been able to retrieve the data. But, I am grateful that I got it done, although it was way past the deadline. 

I have also submitted my short story to a few places, and quite predictably, have been receiving rejections. I have also sent out a packet of poems, and have been receiving rejections on that front too. 

The good news, though, I have had one poem accepted for a journal I admire. There are also some other good news in the poetry front, But, I will wait for that news to receive a more definitive shape, before disclosing anything more. Overall, I think, I am doing okay. But, the AN front needs attention. My misfortine in this life is to work with people who are far less smarter than myself. It's not a choice that one makes in life. One can only do the best one can.