The day of the big story
May 14, 2010
So today I got given the task of writing up a certain significant New York event! It was really exciting because the story is going to be one of the ‘ten hot stories’, so it will be in the first few pages of the magazine. It took me longer than usual to do as I was in severe self-critical mode and kept re-writing what I had already written!
The editor came to the office about four and looked at the text, once I had put it into InDesign with all the pictures and the layout done. She really liked it, so that’s one more story that’ll definitely be going in the June issue!
In other news I’ve got a room-mate for the remainder of my stay now, which is cool. Her name is Skandita, she’s a Mumbaikar, she works for The Economic Times and she’s just staying here for two weeks until she moves into her new apartment.
Whilst I was in the lift this morning, I was reading the advertisement for Time and Style magazine on the wall, and guess who was on the cover? Ashika from yesterday’s shoot! It was really funny and I wanted to tell this really weird guy that was in the lift with me, but he did not want to be disturbed, you could tell.
So today went by really fast in a blur of coffee trips, typing and general office chatter with the girls. Lunch was the usual cafeteria affair, today I hardly ate any of my food though. I have come full circle with my eating habits here. At the beginning I hardly ate anything because I was too hot and didn’t fancy anything, then I got really into the food, and now, I think I may be a little tired of the same meals. There’s not much variation in the food in the canteen and in the guest house. It’s always curry, rice and chapatti, standard. I did however have really nice carrot soup in the guest house for dinner, and I did have a really nice sweet in the canteen. It was made of pulses that had been sweetened and rolled into a ball, sounds horrible, tasted lush.
Nandini let me go just after five so I came back to the guest house to do some work on my case study, which is what I’m doing now. Ben is leaving the early hours of Sunday morning so we’ve only got tomorrow to do something before he leaves. Karen and I have made plans to have breakfast at a place called Mondegar’s tomorrow morning that apparently does the best scrambled eggs ever, but apart from that who knows what the day will have in store!
