Coming back to the office after a hiatus, however brief it might be, is ….ummm, i am always bad with analogies….it’s kind of a Rip-Van-Winkle-ish experience. You know, the guy who slept for 20 years and came back to his native village and found his infant daughter a married woman, and his friends dead and stuff. This feeling is kind of like that.

No dead people around HERE of course. And yes, I do realise that part of it is my paranoia up in arms, and the other part is my guilty conscience…but still.

The worst thing is when people don’t ask where you had been. It’s kind of like “Oh, we already know what you’ve been. Welcome back. Oh, and guess what? You’ve been fired. ” I know this sounds funny, but it’s just the way I react.

Part of this goes back to my school-days. People might beg to disagree, but history notes that Beatzophreniac, in his pre-beatzo days, was a sincere, diligent, hardworking, conscientious individual. He did not bunk school. He did not read comics in class ( actually, he did, but history can be altered to suit one’s point of view) And he most definitely didn’t bunk work to go to quiz fests.
( I don’t think my Science teacher from the Tenth is reading this )
Anyway, in those oddball situations when I bunked classes…horror of horrors, the day would usually be a major one, with something like a Class Test being over, or a major reshuffling of seating spaces, with the absentee ( ME! ) being relegated to sharing a bench with the smelliest guy in class. ( no, that wasn’t me )

Enough history. We were talking about the office.

Right, so I was late today. Was supposed to be back in town on Saturday…of course that was a barefaced lie for leave’s sake. So skulked into the office at noon, and decided to have lunch before starting off with work.

Major shock to my biological rhythm: seems we have to be in our office by 8 AM. EIGHT AM!!! Jeez!!! Seems the boss wants more afternoon time….and we’ll be having breakfast in the office. Jeez!!!! So, everybody, take note. I will be available in my office between 8 and 4 everyday.

The inhumanity!!!!

Another bombshell: The load-balancer design meeting got over in the morning without me! Aaaaaaaargh!

Seems somebody made a resolution: No Yahoo Messenger for a week!!!

Skeetered around the office trying to figure out exactly how many people know I went to Saarang and how many don’t. The reason being, my official excuse is that I had gone to Chennai to meet this uncle who had come over for an operation…yada yada yada….Turns out The Boss doesn’t know anything about it. Inspite of people shouting “How much did you win?” at inopportune moments. Dunno how long that will last.

One more resolution. I will be honest with myself. Will work properly!!!!!!!!!

Load Balancer, here I come.

(For those who wonder what a Load Balancer is, check out http://www.zeus.com for details )