So I was at Adaptavant today...
I've been sick in bed over the past few days so I haven't had the typical wild and crazy time that I've been accustomed to since my arrival. On the other hand, the dullest day in India is still something to write home about, right? ...no actually, I slept about 15 hours on Sunday and spent the rest of the time watching Season 3 of 24, which doesn't even seem to be more interesting written down than it was to live through. So I'll skip that part.
Weekdays aren't usually very exciting. The shift (noon to 10:00) is not something I find fun and makes me appreciate my usual 7-4 day a lot. Here I usually wake up and hit the gym (every single day. ...aw who am I kidding, you've all seen the pictures) and maybe eat some leftovers for breakfast before heading to the office, possibly stopping at my computer to see if anyone has put the latest Finals game online (no one watches basketball here!). Then come home after a ten hour day, help Alec make something to eat and spend about an hour watching a DVD, writing email, etc. It seems like my free time has decreased tremendously, which is probably because instead of having my free time in one large block at the end of the day, it's split up between before work and after work. I don't really like it.
Speaking of my office, I took the time to make a short video. Feel free to watch it by clicking on it now:
The office building is very nice. The air conditioning never fails and there's a dedicated barista just serving the 5 offices on the floor.
But as Michael Scott put it, "What is the most important thing for a company? Is it the cash flow? Is it the inventory? Nuh-uh. It's the people." And I've gotten to know a lot of great people here. In fact, Friday we all went to lunch as an office. I managed to take 4 pictures at this lunch, each of which was worse than the one before it :-\ In fact, the pictures turned out so bad that I went so far as to create a collage (again, keeping it real). The first three prompt so many questions. What is Senthil so excited about? Why is Mahalkshmi so upset? And why am I making the hand motions to Little Bunny Foo Foo? The last one is just an example of bad timing. But don't let the pictures fool you, we all had a fun time. I had the Biryani, and so did everyone else.
Between work and sleep, I didn't do a whole lot this weekend. I hope to change that next weekend though, when I plan to do some shopping and sightseeing. I would also really like to see a movie while I'm here. There's a movie called Sivaji that everyone is talking about and opens on Friday. Unfortunately, the movie is so hyped that theaters are charging 1200 Rs for tickets during the first week. To give people some idea of how much that is, just based on my shopping here, that's the equivalent of 100 liters of bottled water, 150 packets of Top Ramen, or 120 standard sized Kit Kat bars. Wowzers! No thanks, I'll wait for the DVD...
