Remember me, my neglected blog?

yes my pretty, i'm still alive. i figured i had better get back to posting to while away my boredom. we're working on our PC cases MIR now and are waiting for lasers (a.k.a. hard copies) to come from our assigned layout artist, who is even more antukin than i am.

people who know me will gasp at the implication of that statement. yes, i am officially handing over my antukin crown to He-Who-Must-Be-Woken, who has been caught snoozing on the job, hand on mouse in a can't-you-see-i'm-really-hard-at-work pose, at least thrice in the past two days. yes, snoozing, as my team's collective eyebags balloon exponentially. snoozing, as surajit (our gigantic jolly nut of an editor-in-chief) chortles, "so deepa, still working on that MIR? do you think you'll finish it within the year?"

one of the best ideas i heard all day came from darius, who suggested that editorial should be able to administer push-button electric shock to said artist from the convenience of our own desks, just so that we don't have to keep traipsing over to production to wake him up and marshal him back to work.

but enough about that. i'm beginning to feel sleepy just thinking about said artist. time for coffee.

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Mo' money

on a lighter note, it's payday today! since paychecks usually come in a full two days before official payday, i went crawling to the atm yesterday in breathless (broke) anticipation. however, i was sorely disappointed to find the last few pesos of my bank account piteously mewling for company.

all that is in the past now, as today i am the proud bearer of the biggest pay slip in my two-month career at global sources. i have that hideous notebook PC MIR to thank for this windfall. overtime pay plus meal and food allowances more than doubled due to all the hours we had to log in for that piece of... of...market intelligence.

yesterday, though, i also found out how much our freelance subbers (the people who grapple with the godawful raw text, which is what i am on really bad days) make from editing. grabe! subbing is one of the most gruesome parts of the job, but i wonder how i can start subbing for our other magazines?

subbing around 8 or 9 articles gives a freelancer more than my gross pay. sigh.

hello, pink blog! meet deepa. she ekes out a living as a corporate worm.