The other intern in my branch, Amp&Effects, is in the electrical engineering program at school, but for his internship, he's parked at a computer writing graphics code. In the afternoons, he often wanders into my lab to ogle the Hamsters and other hardware that I'm working with. He envies me and grumbles how he's doing more computer science than engineering.
He finds other ways to pass the time. This afternoon I walk into his office to ask if the copy of Matlab I'd been looking for earlier had turned up. While we chat about the software, he hears his boss hang up his phone. He says, "It's time to—Shh." He picks up the receiver of his own phone and, holding it just off the hook, punches in a number. His boss's phone rings.
"What?" I ask.
He shakes his head and puts a finger to his lips. His boss's phone rings a couple more times before the boss picks it up. Amp&Effects drops his receiver back onto the hook.
169 words | June 18, 2004 07:48 PM | Rocket science