Intern On The Rack

Internship...the saga finally draws to a close.

Unfortunately, the end wasn't quite as much fun... all the red tape kinda tied it up in knots. And Murphy's Law as applied to completions is : If a department can torture you and delay your signatures, it (intentionally or otherwise) will.

Apparently, working my heart out (read overtime) and agonising endlessly about my Burns posting and working till all my friends started calling me dumb has absolutely no bearing on getting signatures from the our beloved faculty. When I went to get the lecturer's signature, a month later, he has absolutely no recolllection of me, which delays my completion in Surgery.
In Orthopaedics, the HOD apparently remembers everyone else (even people who were posted there a year back) but me. My song should be, "Forgettable,that's what I am". Thankfully, the lecturer, being a lot younger, hadn't reached dementia yet and I finally got that signature.
And every single department took their own sweet time over the HOD's signature... I was beginning to feel like Jinx Malloy.
And after all that is over, I had to wait for an appointment for the hot seat (and that's more difficult to get than the KBC one) with the infamous PSM clerk in charge of torturing us about our internship. Camping outside her cabin for long enough,thankfully, had its effect, even if I was fantasising about transfer the products of her haemorrhoidectomy to the space vacated by her hemispherectomy.
N.B. : All surgeries are done without the benefit of anaesthesia.
Of course, then she couldn't find some of the attendance sheets (which I'd definitely submitted to her) and I got a lecture for her muck up. I almost drew blood biting my tongue, a maun vrat had been extracted from me by my friends for fear that I'd say something to mess it up(and delay it another few weeks) at this late stage. Of course, when I went to get my final signature from the HOD PSM, I got quizzed left, right and centre about a project I haven't finished yet.

I did get disgustingly maudlin on the last day, but I put that down to temporary insanity and the fact that I'm going to miss doling out the painful... ooops healing touch.
The torturous part isn't over yet, my project is still in the process of Excelling, along the lines of :
Data, data everywhere
It's driving me over the brink.

Of course, I also have a project guide who changes her mind, every time I speak to her and my completion is contingent on that. For the first time in my life, I'm actually waiting for internship to get over.

P.S. : Vishu ashamsagal, everyone.

Doctor Witch