It was a non-stop action sort of week, and I’m pretty proud to have carved out some time for rest and leisure.
WHAT’S BEEN HAPPENING
1.
My dental troubles continued. The re-installed crown simply wasn’t sturdy enough, and as a result I cut down on what I was eating drastically; to the point that I actually lost weight in just a few days and my brain didn’t have enough fuel to do everything I had on my plate. The situation became untenable on Thursday evening when the crown began to stick out a couple of millimetres. The next morning, it was removed and a dental pin was inserted to fortify the tooth. A new crown is now being made and will hopefully be installed soon.
2.
I was so stressed and out of sorts that I couldn’t sleep past two in the morning on Tuesday/Wednesday. It was a terrible time for this to happen because I had an IRL meeting with a client the next morning, but such is life.
3.
A lettering commission that had been in limbo for the past two months suddenly got a jolt of life because the person looking after the project at the client’s end has resigned and his last day with them is coming up. I had to shift gears to focus some time towards this work in an already busy week.
4.
My cousin Aditi was in town and staying with my parents over the weekend. I spent a couple of lazy evenings with her, which was very nice.
5.
With the newsletter and other social media announcements out, there was a flurry of zine orders, and the work that comes with packing and mailing them.
6.
On the weekend, Amber and I caught a quiet meal at Café Lota and visited an excellent exhibition about India’s cinematic heritage at the India Habitat Centre. The focus on the exhibition was largely Bollywood with some Bengali film history thrown in. There was so much interesting typographic material to see, and I came back feeling energised.
