today is one of those few days when i've been let off from work early...ok...i'll be honest..its been even fewer days since i actually started working..ummm...about a week..but what the heck! this one week has extracted more from me than anything else i've ever done before! had it not been for the stipend that i have been promised..its measly alright..but its going to be my first paycheck so that off sets all the other 'ordeals' that a poor intern like me is being subjected to....don't i make a really sad picture?? like a cat on a hot tin roof? well,that certainly is not my purpose so let me write what an incredibly awesome 'learning experience' this one has been...

my first day taught me the greatest lesson in life..atleast a really crucial one if u're new to an office or worse still, to a job...and that was the art of waiting endlessly (and tirelessly..for your own good!) for excruciatingly long hours for the boss to arrive..he's a terribly overworked person u see..has to extricate himself from the innumerable engagements that he has...it hardly matters if he gave you an appointment as well... this endless waiting has to be borne with an 'i understand he is busy' look on your face whereas as on the other side of your mind..... u know what i mean...u've gone through it yourself..the boss can well do without all the wonderfully benign adjectives being inflicted on him!

and then 'the man' makes his majestic entry...the man needs no introduction..his imposing air says it all..not everyone can enter an office thinking its his backyard! swift is the word that can define my boss best..blink and u miss him...

ok..i know i'm not being fair to the guy..but thats because i have'nt yet written about my little formal rendezvous with him (yes! it did happen..finally!)...a sweet old man..no,not the kinds that will make you diabetic, but he did manage to allay my apprehensions( i did'nt say all!! but quite a few ,yes) of working at the place...don't think my ride is going to be all that bumpy after all.