A slow, tiring few weeks of constant travel, work balance, and small moments of learning and reset. Tars has become extra playful and demanding whenever I’m home, missing me from all the travel.

  • The past few weeks have been tiring. I travelled a lot between Chennai, Coimbatore and Bangalore. In the last two to three weeks, I went to Chennai three times and Coimbatore once and had to prepone travel back from Coimbatore in Cab for Tars which was quite tiring. I have another trip to Chennai next week. All the travel, traffic and budgeting have been exhausting. I am catching up on sleep to recover.
  • I started watching Pluribus on Apple TV. It is a sci-fi show and feels good so far. Only two episodes are out, but both were interesting.
  • I also subscribed to Branch Education on YouTube. It has been very informative and made me think about trying regular teaching at some point.
  • I have not used Instagram in the past few weeks. The urge to scroll has reduced a lot. Watching long calm videos helps me relax and sleep better. It works well for Hemanth and it is helping me too now.
  • I have not been working out and I do not feel great about it. I have lost my form and health. Things aren’t going too well personally or professionally right now, but there are still learnings along the way. It feels like a slow phase of rebuilding and learning.

  • I have been sketching for RK’s Zero Maintenance project, but it has slowed down because of travel. My mind has not been in the space to sketch all the time, although I managed to complete inktober2025 sketches. I try to take a day off in between to reset and I am hoping to wrap things up by next week. I’m also working on something exciting in parallel that I can’t share yet, and it may take a few months to complete.
  • I do not want to travel after November. Usually Dec is all about travel for me, but I am tired of moving around. My friend wants to take a short break with me and I might do that alone, but I will decide based on my energy level.

All of this has only reinforced the need for me to have an availability status in WhatsApp and calls that’s more intentional. I explored a few alternatives and plan to make time to build something around it. My responses in text or calls might be limited for a while as I plan to go offline more often. Just some quiet time away from messages to recharge and refocus.