Only 3 days left!

It’s official. I’m getting really, really, really excited to go back to the US. Today as I was walking back to work from my lunch-park with my friend Ganesh, I started to realize how irritable I’ve been lately. I just haven’t been my easy-going, laid-back traveler self. I think that every trip I go on, I tend to have a few “freak out” moments where I just get indescribably irate with things like ants, cockroaches, honking horns, irritating people…but, for some reason, all of those small freak out moments are accumulating this week.

For example, I was talking to Ganesh and he was telling me about how he wants to quit his internship early because he’s sick of staying in the office until 6:00 pm every night and how he was bugged because Probir (the supervisor of interns in the office) wouldn’t sign his certificate saying he was “a hard worker.” I piped in and said, “Well, it seems like the interns this session are much more lax then the interns last session. Last session we wouldn’t leave the office until at LEAST 7:00.” Ganesh told me I was being mean! Mean?! Come on!?! I wasn’t being mean…I was merely stating a fact, that perhaps Probir didn’t think Ganesh was a hard worker…because…well…he isn’t. Okay, okay…so maybe I should have kept my mouth shut. But, I have opinions. (And let me just say that I’ve put up with Ganesh’s opinions for the past three weeks with a big, fat smile on my face…like when he told me the shirt I had tailored looked like something that a woman selling fish would wear…and when he asked me why I didn’t dye my hair darker because he didn’t like the color of my natural hue.)

I guess it is a good thing that my last day in the office is Thursday. I’m taking a half day, getting my belongings together, and then scooting out of the country on FRIDAY! I’ll be able to lay on my own bed, in my own room, in my own house on Saturday! Not to mention, I get to see all of my friends and family and Colin and my dog!!! I. Simply. Cannot. Wait.

(P.S. for the record, Ganesh is great...he's got a great sense of humor and I really do like the kid. I just needed to vent for a moment. Okay? Okay.)

Peace. Love. Excitement!!