A Year Gone By....

It has almost been a year since we, the first year recruits of 361 Degrees have been working for the newsletter but alas due to some cruel twists of fate we are yet to see one in print. Hi, I'm Rohini Dasgupta and this is probably one of the world's worst introductions. Anyway coming to matter at hand, ie, the printing of the newsletter; today was supposed to be our day of triumph, the day when we finally presented the newsletter to the printer and be assured that we would see it in print by Friday....But lets just say, fate had other plans. You see apparently there are some minuscule mistakes in the designing which allows them not to accept it until we make the necessary changes. Hence our erstwhile reporters returned empty-handed and are currently engaged in searching high and low for a solution to the problem. The point of this story dear readers was not to attract sympathy but to simply state the facts...Cold, hard facts that have been slammed in our faces every step of the way. First there was no printer, then there was a printer, but no designer and then there was a blessed soul who sacrificed almost an entire week towards the noble cause and now we are stuck with a few 'minor changes'. We have big plans to market this issue as this is the last (and ONLY) newsletter of the year but they are temporarily shelved until we hear the 3 magic words, "We Are Printing!". We are still referred to as the 'Fresh Team' although the only thing fresh right now is disappointment. Lets just hope and pray that things work themselves out so that we may finally be able to tell our friends that, YES, there is a newsletter, it is called 361 Degrees and you can collect your copy on so and so date. I see that I have been bordering on the cynical and so would like to end on the optimistic note that, "Things are always fine in the end; if they are not, then it's not the end".

Three Cheers to Team 361 Degrees for we are the only ones who know that wasting time is not all we do (and hopefully some other people now know that as well!)

Cheers,
Rohini

PS # I think I need to make an official mention here that the "Cheers" is the Trademark of the Tribe Queen Anuja Anil Pradhan and here's hoping that she will continue to allow her loyal subject to sign off with it.