rambles, rumbles & grumbles: just another day...

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another normal day at the company... i look up from my laptop and find everyone else looking down into theirs... most have excel sheets open... red, blue and green color-coded charts flashing with such aesthetic appeal that you wish you were color blind... or atleast blind... :)

anyway, my girl friend's not in today...called in sick... and i'm quite missing her incessant chatter... the same that blocks my brain for 30minutes after she's finally gone... i try to make small talk with the others... most give me a cold shoulder... one of them's still miffed for losing grandiosely to me in the TT match yesterday... and the day before that, and the one before that...

i was a little off yesterday... did some wild calculations based on the alignment of stars and planets... and came to the conclusion that i might not end up after all in the IPS!! and maybe not even Mussorie!!! ah!! cruel life!!
i then convinced myself i needed a cigarette... i found two actually... nearly broken but still alive...from long times ago... somebody claimed they had expiry dates... really??? i then remembered that you'd need matches... can you believe i had none!! and not even a gas stove... !! finally, tried it out on the electric gas stove... after puffing crazily, i was able to light it... though i came dangerously close to electrocuting myself in the process... smoked the cigarette till i felt sick... and wondered why i'd started in the first place... then remembered my room-mate.. ran around opening every window in the house... i seriously think i'm more scared of her finding out i'm a lowly smoker than dying horribly of lung cancer...

anyway, i have precious little to do, now that i'm on my notice period... except sit around pretending to be doing something i'm not and also managing to pretend to be not doing something i actually am... make sense?? it will, only if you're as full of time on your hands as i am...

i have had three tea breaks in 1.5 hours... with three different sets of peoples... i'm looking for more prospects... not even any meetings scheduled for the day... for my creativity to blow up...anyway, meetings aren't much fun since everybody's discovered i'm writing sinister blogs while attending them and won't let me carry my laptop to the meeting hall... there's only so much day-dreaming one can accomplish in a brightly lit room with half a dozen people looking at you...and nowhere to hide...