an occasional yawn punctuates the meeting... there's a frequent flipping of wrists to check the time... once in a while i catch words i understand, or let's stick to 'recognize'... DWF, OATS, dashboard, scorecard... there's some new word... blue harmony, being bandied about... must be the 'in' thing...once in a while, i manage a smile when there's obviously something funny being said and i'm expected to chortle... though i have no clue what the heck they're going on about...the temperature of the meeting is definitely lower... the chill can be attributed to the manager, a quiet, formal fellow... likes procedures and formalities way more than the rest of the team thinks necessary...
while trying to look very seriously present and concentrating, i make a mental checklist of things that need to be done...urgently... my toe-nails need a fresh coat of the black paint... there are a dozen or so photos i need to collect from sangee... need to send that mail to upsc for the authenticated mark sheet... varun's shoes look like the new pair i bought for vin... i hope he likes them... will promptly kill him if he complains... have to convince the dentist to finish the job and take out the braces... i don't plan to start my new career looking like a 12-year-old...
sagar says something about fool-proof... i nod understandingly...i know something that for sure, isn't fool-proof... the hdfc atm sitting on the ground floor reception... i put in my card yesterday in the gap under the slot and then shoved it in...not in the card-slot but an inch below it... don't ask me why... and don't you dare roll your eyes...i have no excuse for the sheer stupidity... except i was hungry, caffeine withdrawn and there was a high frequency siren blasting continuously(for the past few days) that apparently switched off the 'intelligent' part of my brain... until only the 'spectacularly stupid' was the only functional part... that's another card added to the long list of lost cards... :(
now the meeting's over... and we're back to our cubicles... facing away from each other, pretending to inhabit the world alone, with our laptops of course... okay, that's way off into randomnes... so, let me just go back and check on something i need to get done on the job front...
ciao!!
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