Bad Lessons

If I'm tired of worrying about Corona and want to find something worse, my children's online classes are very useful. Just a look at the comments these children post for everyone to see is enough to trouble you. Corona will possibly go away someday but what about this insensitivity and insolence? While teenagers' comments range from dirty, flirtatious to insulting, the ten year-olds are only a few steps behind. But what's also worrisome is teachers' helplessness to take charge of the situation. One teacher literally begged them to stop saying she was getting nightmares. Why shouldn't there be penalty for such bad behaviour? 

In Anu's class, after reading many comments from her classmates on the games they were playing, Anu asked them to stop it and listen to what the teacher was saying. I asked her if she would've done the same in a classroom. She thought and said probably not; she might not have had the courage to take on so many. 

Reduced Visibility

I watched Deadwind Season 2 in the first two days. There is some talk of Season 3, where I wonder if they'll introduce Sofia's unknown father. Anyway, that's all next year and I find it difficult to be enthused about it. These days anything beyond two weeks is looking too far and uncertain. But I still try to cheer myself up thinking about all those beautiful places that I want to visit. Those seem farther too. 

By the End of the Day

Thank God, Rishi's results didn't throw any tantrums. And he took the minor disappointment of not standing first in his school(he missed by one mark) in his stride. So that's done. 

The first case of COVID-19 in our apartments today. Cases in Bangalore hitting the roof, hoping that this indeed is the roof. 

Resultants

Rishi's exam results will be out tomorrow. He's expecting some disappointments and is dreading the sympathies of many that will follow. I remember mine all too well. 

The Door(Doa) Way

I was surprised to find that the Japanese call the door 'doa', which seemed borrowed from English. I mean, they would surely have had a native word for a door? I explored and found an interesting answer, which said the Japanese had sliding doors before and indeed have a word for it. And doa is used for the hinged doors of today. 

The Distanced

There are a few infections around my grandmother's place but my kith and kin aren't much worried. Because the ones infected belong to Scheduled Castes and are as such socially distanced, in the highest way possible. "Imagine how worrisome it would've been if they were Brahmins!", someone said. Really. 

(H)owling

No matter how hard I try I can't hit the bed before 1:30 in the night. Work is just too too much. People want to have a Zoom call at 10 p.m.(which I ignore). I don't seem to be able to break this loop. There is this friend of mine, H, who says she sleeps by 9 and wakes up at 4 and runs four km every morning. She lives just 5 kms away from me but her schedule is as good as in a different timezone!