Business as usual...

A realization that life as an intern is gradually drawing to a close has made me want to document as much as possible so I can relive these glorious days..atleast in print!

It was half past ten when I logged on to my machine..I was surprised to see a good number of interesting forwards and spent the next half hour(or was it one hour?!) checking all mails and orkut and what not...I stumbled upon a blog with pictures of Pilani taken by someone who has recently visited BITS...Link after link and I found I was busy doing a number of things EXCEPT my project...

Post lunch, the informative browsing continued, and it resulted in a posting..By then it was already close to three...I realized I hadn't checked my inbox for about an hour...A look at the inbox and I could see what activity I had missed...There was a string of mails..from my roomies...I would not like go into details of the subject, suffices to say that they were considering a (costlier) substitute to a glass of milk, namely, liquor...I broke into a laugh...Their knowledge about all this was limited to naming a few brands, which they had learnt from ads....!! Quietly hidden in that chain of replies..was Jo's..'What's wrong with Anu?! Havent got her usual call yet!'...I could sense the concern..She is one person giving me company in this cruel world of workaholics...A person who believes vettiness is the path to enlightenment..!! (In all these months of PS, I had almost made it a habit to call everyone everyday..soon after lunch...the time when I felt like going home for a good crash! ) The next mail read..'Anu..are you WORKING or something?!'...I smiled as I pictured her astonished face if she came to hear that I had WORKED....I decided it was time to soothe her troubled mind..and mailed her about all that I had been upto...As a mark of respect for our combined state of perpetual vettiness, I sent her the links to all the sites hallowed by my visit... A refreshed inbox showed something new..Aishu was on a hattrick..She had mailed at 4:23,4:24 and it wasnt yet 4:25...Not wanting to waste that precious minute I typed out a mail asking her to complete the hattrick...She responded with a mail..The mail server played spoilsport and sent it after a good 7 minutes delay..'What a waste..' I thought..I could only feel sorry for Aishu for having missed a great opportunity that would have propeled her to greatness overnight!

When all this had died down, I looked at my watch..It was 5:30..I double checked the time..Surely, I couldnt have spent such a looooong time doing NOTHING...!! 'Time to work'..I decided and opened the code that had been troubling me the whole of Friday...I tried debugging a bit, but the errors persisted...Some adjustments here and there..a few if statements (needless, but I dont know why it worked!!) and my code was running like a marathon winner in his last lap....

This is what is called 'job satisfaction'...albeit on a smaller scale!