Bursting with ZOOMPH* (can I dictionarise** this word?)

I often find myself lost deep inside the dark alleys of the social media rabbit hole.

This day, I stalked someone wayyy past the point of return.

My agenda? Staring at the stalkee (is that a word?) flaunting sarees post after post, until my eyes were glazing over “WFH in my vibrant handwoven-XYZ”

I mean really WHO IN THE WORLD does so much dressing to sit at home??????… I thought, absently chewing the frayed string of my ratty hoodie.

Let’s not even get started about ALL THAT UNNECESSARY LAUNDRY that will be potentially accumulated discussing covid stats on Zoom Calls!

So pointless!

Also, who switches on their video anyway? The occasional visible one gets his video pinned & checked-out by the other invisible creeps on the call (who are also rolling their eyes at what’s being said!) (GUILTY! & sooo satisfying!)

I can proudly say that last year, I sailed my organisation through a technology makeover, trained / on-boarded over 500 users & created comprehensive social media dashboards – IN MY RIPPED JAMMIES. (AYY… don’t call them torn!)

I, for one, am very happy with WFH life, for many legit reasons:

1. No more jugalbandi of Marathi abuses between my ears while jammed in a peak hour Mumbai local.
   • Corollary: No more random fat lady’s kurmura flying on my face in a speeding train.
2. No more negotiating with rickshawallas.
3. No more walking into office sweaty & disheveled
   • Corollary 1: …while the others are stepping out of their AC cars & giving you judge-y stares in the crowded office elevator
   • Corollary 2: No more changing into actual office clothes from the sweats you travelled to office in.
4. No more MOUNTAINS of weekend laundry!
5. No more make-up! (I love using that Zoom beta feature to color the lips and sharpen the brows. Also Zoom is kind enough to painlessly clean up and auto-thread your face anyway!)
6. No more a lot many things…. You get the drift!

Work from home is a win-win-win. And has been my most productive time ever! Do tell me your fav thingsss about working from your bed or the bathroom in the comments below….

And srsly! For staying at home enduring Zoom, for the sweep-cook-scrub-repeat cycle and going to the gate to collect a banana saver (& other unnecessary items I impulse-purchased on Amazon), I’m undoubtedly DRESSED TO KILL in my jammies / sweats!

Or DRESSED TO SKILL. And unapologetically full of ZOOMPH!

**P.S: ‘dictionarise’ means adding a word to a dictionary. Side thought: Lets also dictionarise, ‘dictionarise’?

*P.P.S: Zoomph means cool / oomphy things about remote office / Zoom life.

P.P.P.S: Do you know any more cool words that need to be ‘dictionarised’ ASAP? Tell me in the comments below!

P.P.P.P.S: GIF & video are courtesy Dharma Productions, from a time when SRK had already popularized the pant-free WFH uniform! 😉