Week full of meetings

This week was surprisingly packed with meetings and endless discussions and all of them at the Deputy comissioners office. Half the time my presence was just decorative, with items on the agenda being developmental projects, or about HIV cases being reported in Udupi, or about ration cards being issued in Karkala and similar stuff. All that I did was nod my head and say 'yeah it could be done that way' or sometimes 'why dont you do it this way' , and when the subject was health, the DHO would be surprised who this cop was, suggesting us how we should be controlling chikungunya or how national programs are to be implemented. Nevertheless most doctors in Udupi are now comfortabe when i suggest something, coz they're aware by now that their SP is also a doc.

This week we also had some guests at home, with two of our friends visiting us. So all that i've been doing between these meetings was to take them around places in Udupi. So you can imagine, i've hardly been to the office this week. From August 1st Deepu is planning to start working at the KMC Manipal. So next week on, home is going to be very depressing when I dont find Deepu around . But I guess lifes like that, and we got to get used to it. So we got two days left and we're trying to make the best of them. The other day we'd been to a forest rest house at Hebri, the foot hills of Agumbe. Its a beautiful place on the banks of river Sita , and in this part of the year, it runs full with lots of rapids., ideal for river rafting. But since we reached there late in the evening, the rafts were all out. better luck next time.