I have thoroughly enjoyed my cube and the company next to me. And my projects have been fun- or at least they've kept me busy enough to only miss home a little bit so far (ok fine so I'm ready to come home, let's just not talk about that). I have scouted out companies, learned to code stuff in HTML (yes, me, the most un-tech-savvy person alive) and gotten some good laughs in while being scolded for eating up too much bandwidth (oops lol).
Every morning, taking in the sites and smells on the way to work I always think about how I need to write a blog post about the stench and never do (seriously this talk goes on in my head everyday) so I figure it is fitting to pay tribute to the smells we smell, not just on our way to work everyday but pretty much anytime we go anywhere here, after my last ricky ride to the office.
I'm sure you have all heard that the smells here can vary from quite fabulous to putrid. Most of the time it is putrid. This is a kind of putrid smell that even a Darling truck can aspire to smell like. In general when not wanting to smell something bad, you simply breathe through your mouth; this is the kind of smell that is so strong that even that does not work. You can breath out of your mouth, plug your nose and the smell still gets in there! There is no avoiding this stench and oddly enough it happens a lot when driving over the river...annnd then just randomly everywhere else. It's so annoying because you're just going along, on your merry way and then, WHAM! Like a sack of bricks it hits you! Sometimes it smells like sulfur, other times... well after looking at the dead dog on the side of the road today swarmed with flies... I don't even want to know what kind of combo of smells that I am smelling. Some things are better left unknown.
This afternoon, I will be making my last trip to the Chinese cart on the street in front of the office. My last batch of Chili Garlic Chicken Chowmein *sobbing*! I'm telling you, they have to put something in it because I literally crave it...all of the time! If I could take the cook home with me to make me chili chick crack noodles everyday, I would do it in a heart beat!!! Not to mention I'm going to miss the sweet guys that work there... lets just say that foreign girls are a novelty around here and their big smiles and practically tripping over themselves to help me place an order and pack up my food attitudes, never cease to make me "googles hard all around";) (for those of you not in the loop- Giggles had all around)
We did one last dinner and drinks w/friends from the office last night...annnd who knows me might have a repeat of the fun again tonight since our flight out tomorrow isn't until noon or is it 1pm...eh sometime around there. It was fun, but sad at the same time- Not gonna lie, I'm going to miss Kunal's blunt honesty and sarcasm and Nirdesh's hilarious commentary! Although, Kunal might be meeting up with us in Goa on Tuesday, and we have stocked Nirdesh up with tons of new music to jam to (all music from the 90s...1992-1996...haha really, we wish he would move back to the states!) so I suppose last night was not the last time that we will all light up the town. It has been a fun month- who knew you could have so much fun sitting in a cube being totally unproductive and yet still get so much work done in the end!
Time to be semi-productive, get crack noodles, say my goodbyes and get packed for a month of adventure...
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