Cesium 133 - #1

Everyday, at precisely 0249 hours in the morning, or late night if you prefer it that way, Rohan would wake up. Precisely at 0249, like it was something out of a ‘Ripley’s’! The time so precise that you could do away with the complex method to turn cesium atomic resonance into an atomic clock; it would be simpler to calibrate your clocks with the time he would wake up – 0249.

What followed next was a routine of blog-messenger-back to blog and then others. Log on to the computer, and on to his favourite blogger’s haven and then, “Damn, missed it again, by exactly 27 minutes.” The time stamp on the latest post was 0222 that day. He then logged on to the messenger to check if she was online, no luck here either, just a few offline messages, last one at 0238 when she could stay up no further and just had to go! On other days, it would be messenger first then the blog, just in case he managed to catch up with her. Just in case she posts late, just in case she’s up late chatting, just in case….

After some time of loitering on her blog, hitting ‘F5’ or ‘Ctrl-R’ alternately and, finally updating his blog after Rohan ensured all those refresh operations haven’t got him hit by the carpal tunnel syndrome, he would log off from the WWW, go back to sleep. “Sleep”, he mused, was something he needed. “Afterall, tomorrow is a long day, and I just have to look for a job.”

Long before 0430 he would be back to sleep.

And so the story goes, everyday!