This post should have been written about a month and half ago.

But I love the fact that WordPress allows me to back date my post, so I’m gonna back date it anyway. So when did I really write it? Go figure!

For two months now, Pratik and I have had a growing sense of urgency about our impending departure from this gray and green country. Have I told you Silicon Valley is Gray. And Green. Except on the weekends when we escape to the Pacific, life drifts by day after day in different shades of gray and green.

The concrete, the buildings, the mountains in the distance, the freeways, the monotonous colors of business suits.. and maple trees topped in sparse green.

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I so wanna write. You know, on paper, with pen. After over three months of barely having written anything (because when I moved to the States, I brought my beloved ink pens but didn’t get ink for fearing of it spilling and ruining everything in my suitcase), I am craving to hold a beautiful pen with a balled nib which flows across paper to make beautiful words appear.
The craving is so heightened that unknowingly, I have resorted to my father’s habit of moving my fingers in the air or on my husband’s arm or chest hair to imitate writing gestures.

And this being the famed United States of A.m.e.r.i.c.a., every time I mentioned ink or ink pens to anyone, they looked at me and said (with a pronounced nasal twang and drawl), ‘You mean those things they used back in the Dark Ages!’

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