Wow!

I was at the after-party of a cousin’s Arangetram (the first solo Bharatanatyam performance of an artiste) in New Haven, CT. It was a small group of 25 odd people ranging in age from 8 to 80. This little group was stuffed with talent - 2 violinists, 4 Bharatanatyam dancers, a cellist, 2 guitarists, a pro singer, 2 Mridangam players, a flutist, a banjoist and a clarinetist – many of them professional. I was feeling rather miserable about my lack of ‘talent’ and was shrugging off polite queries regarding what I could do with a grumpy “I can be geeky and play with numbers.”


Be that as it may, the only person I had eyes for that night was P – a professional Bharatanatayam artiste from New York who was gorgeous in a way only a dancer can be. I had told her how awesome I thought New York was and how I’d love to live there. I had been quietly “crushing” in a corner and planning out my first pick-up line in a year, when my aunt told me to be the good host and drop P off at her room in the nearby Bed & Breakfast where she would be staying.

Me: “Which room is she staying in?”
P (who happened to just walk up): “Wouldn’t you like to know?”
Me: “Uhhh.. blurgh..”
P (grinning): “If you want to move to New York, you have to learn to be faster than that”

There are girls and then there are women. : )

Afterword: She had to take the early train the next morning to watch the last day of the Ashes test. How many of you just found your dream woman?