Bitch from Hell

ahhhhh winter's coming.

you know the saddest thing about today?

it was one of those lovely nippy days, with a nice breeze-wind, and it was overcast and even drizzly in bits! and the icing on the cake was the hint of an attempt to be foggy.

but oh it broke my heart. because, you see, it wasnt a cool day, but it wasnt a cold day either.

in the auto somewhere i almost cried because i remember the cold. aight i grant you its not cold like in the himalayas or in other countries, but hey its cold for me and for hyd. i remember how i used to walk to college with cotton socks, woollen socks and shoes, woollen gloves, t-shirt flannel shirt and fleece, longjohns, muffler, woollen hat, and still have to hunch and squinch up against the cold, to breathe in short gusts and close my eyes cos they were watering, to stuff my hands into my pockets, bury my nose in my collar, cower in a corner of the auto... and every time i got up from sitting i would shiver involuntarily because of the loss of the heat exchange from parts of my body close together...and diving under the quilt and blanket and shivering for half an hour till it got toasty and the next morning steeling myself to sit on the pot [rarely managed it usually airchaired] and hating to stick my hand under the tap and running back to jump into the bed and not waste the last vestiges of the night's warmth...and warming my hands on endless glasses of chai at the cafe, and how gloves stank of stale cigarettes bcos it was too cold to take em off to hold the cig, and people were always borrowing my gloves...and god i remember the fog where you literally couldnt see your hand at arm's length, and the smell oh the smell of wood-smoke and wetness and trees and the ridge, with the sun at noon loooking like a pale shadow of the moon...and i remember basking in the sun in andrew's court and alnutt court and listening to chica play the guitar and teachers having classes on the lawns cos it was too cold in the classrooms, and i remember missing so many classes because i fell asleep on the library lawns catching those last ten minutes...and i remember my friends chasing me to put sweaters and shawls on me and i remember running down the lanes laughing hysterically and screaming nanananan batman while flapping my shawl like wings....and i remember those days it was 12 degrees in the daytime and we all piled into one bed and shivered together and giggled all day...and i remember waking up on the AP and wondering where we were and looking out the window to be enchanted by the fog for the first time, and being thrilled we were five hours late cos i got to watch the shapes in it....

i remember

HOW i remember....

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