Sleepless in Bangalore

Four years back, when the FIFA World Cup was held in South Korea/Japan, I was really happy because I was working in night shift at that time and the matches were all during the Indian daytime. Using my limited grasp of logic, it wasn't long before I decided that since World Cup comes only once in 4 years compared to work coming every day, the former should be given priority. For one whole month, I struggled through my working hours, but happily watched almost all the matches.

Four years later, World Cup has returned. This time around, it is in Germany and matches are happening at night as far as I am concerned. This has led to more disruption of my sleep. Thankfully, I have grown older, though necessarily not wiser, which has resulted in my body showing slight signs of fatigue. I am finding myself increasingly dozing by 1 a.m. and just not having the energy to watch the third match of the day. This has been welcomed by Ranji who found her usual pressure tactics not really having their desired effect on me. Even then, I did manage to watch all 3 matches on June 10th. I slept only by 2:30 a.m., but it was worth every minute of it with Argentina and Ivory Coast really battling it out. One more selfish reason was that I had picked 3 Argentinians for my FIFA Fantasy Game and wanted to see how all 3 played. I was rather disappointed that Lionel Messi didn't come on even as a substitute. Now, after 3 days, my team is languishing in some 6-digit rank. Doesn't take much intelligence to figure out that my condition isn't all that great. Well, there is still a good bit of 27 more days, so I am keeping my fingers crossed.