Whelming List

I’m not over or under, just… whelmed. In no particular order

1. Work! How can do many people need so much treatment at the same time? Have all the other dentists fled town leaving Vikesh(husband, dentist, colleague) and me to deal with the deluge? This isn’t even profitable! It’s just exhausting telling people we can’t see them because we’re too busy seeing other people — who we’re informing we cannot see.
2. Weather — monsoon rains aren’t letting up and the clotheslines sag with damp clothes. Everything smells damp. Each monsoon, I wanna buy a clothes dryer and then I think, what a waste of electricity!
3. I bashed my car against my neighbor’s parked car the day I got it serviced and so couldn’t Medium about it because of Work and Workouts.

My poor car. At the shop now. Author’s photo.

4. My daughter just applied to write the GRE. Will she do well? Won’t she? If she does well, will she go abroad to the US? Won’t she? Will I be able to afford it? Is it a smart idea? Will she get a job back in India when she’s done? So many frightening thoughts with a dollar costing ₹84.

5. My workouts! Will I never be able to do a workout without a trainer? I’d rather sit here and type then workout. Which kind of idiot pays a person to force them to workout? That’s me. I’m so mad at me for needing a trainer, but I suck it up and go anyway.

6. Medium. I can’t write anymore! Not properly. This is a choppy article with stop-and-start sentences, it does not count.

Dear God, grant me that business of knowing what I can change and what I can’t and the wisdom to know the difference, etc.