In good company

So I'm buying some snacks at a 7-11, and I give the very-obviously-new nervous guy at the counter a ten-dollar note. The dude gives me back my change and says, "Keep the change."

Oh the hilarity of being new at a job! :D

I can't wait to get there.

I can't wait. I seriously can't wait. I have been making statements like "I can't wait for the damn saturday and sunday to get over so I can go to work on Monday!", and getting a lot of dirty looks from my friends.

It has been a long wait. The break was good, gave me some time to catch up on 'really-doing-nothing' (which I hadn't done at all in the last two years), a breather from work+part-time studies, and a chance to do some freelance writing, editing, teaching and volunteering. Working from home is okay, but it's not my cup of tea. I guess I'm not really the 'really-doing-nothing' kinda person, in fact it drives me nuts. I need my waking-up-to-the-alarm-clock, my office clothes, my hurried breakfast, my bus ride, the office space, my cubicle, my office computer, my deadlines, office meetings, office lunches, and a bunch of lovable crazy colleagues.

Speaking of lovable crazy colleagues...

• Right after I tendered my resignation at my last job, word reached me that one of the editors I'd hired had reacted with a, "Man! After Sayesha leaves, the Management will be totally devoid of fun." I was super flattered. A few days later, I heard that he'd quit to join Company X.
  

• One of my ex-colleagues lent me her books and offered me valuable advice about my dissertation when I was doing my Master's. I often felt like I did not have time to thank her properly. I recently heard that she's joined Company X.
  

• An ex-colleague used to come to my desk at least three times a day with editorial queries, even though she was in another team under another senior editor. She would be extremely apologetic about "wasting my time" but I liked helping her out. She reminded me of the time when I was a new editor looking for "nice" senior editors to pester with questions. I heard she has joined Company X.
  

• I was beginning to become really good friends with this guy at work when I quit. The horse's mouth told me that he's joining Company X in a few months.
  

• Generally, I prefer hiring my team members myself. Competency, creativity and good editorial skills are not the only things I look for when interviewing a candidate. A sense of humour and fun is very important. So when a girl was transferred from another team to mine, I was apprehensive at first. However, to my utter delight, she turned out to be not just creative, but a very funny and cheerful girl. The last I heard of her was that she had joined Company X.
  

• "Woh meri shaadi mein aaya/aayi thi!" ("He/She came to my wedding!") is a phrase we Indians tend to use when we want to express how close a friend is to us. Two of my Singaporean friends made it to my wedding in India. One of them moved to Hong Kong, while the other joined Company X.

I start work at Company X on Monday.