About meetings

Meetings come in all shapes and forms. Exactly like people. There's the short meeting -- or the long meeting. The interesting meeting -- the boring meeting. The productive meeting -- or the pointless meetings.

And there is the hallway meeting. This is the most productive for me, by far. Chance meetings in the loo, on the stairs, in the elevator. Change of 2-3 phrases bringing the resolution of a conflict or a firm promise of delivery of an important document.

There's also the thin meeting -- or the overflowing one.
The meeting for which you are prepared -- or the one where you watch the carpet in silence, not understanding what the hell you are supposed to be doing there.

I remember my first meetings. There was this incessant buzz in my head. "Meeting" - i would be thinking - " it is soo cool, i am sitting in a meeting". Sitting being the operative word.

I've learnt that meetings can be extremely heated. That frustrated reactions can be observed. It can be funny sitting in meetings. Or not :).

One of my favourites is the sleepy meeting. The one where an imaginary me curls up below the long meeting table and goes to sleep. I can hardly ever tell you after what the meeting was about. And they usually happen in the days following the wild nights :).

40 minutes!!!

...I need 40 minutes to wake up in the morning!

this has never happened before, but it is the same since last year. i am not becoming lazy. it's just that - i guess i am sleepy all the time:).

but that's not why i'm back. I'm back simply because i've been thinking lately about my first days in pwc ro as working professional. it was excruciatingly painful to go from the free student life to the confines of the working life - where i really did HAVE to wake up every day to go to work, it wasn't optional anymore :)...the very days when i lost my freedom, never to regain it...hm.

it's funny how i did not know so many simple things in the beginning :)...like how to walk from the kitchen to the terrace "to smoke" while holding a hot cup of coffee, without spilling it all on my shirt :)...whenever i walk with a hot cup of coffee in my hands i remember those first steps...i would invariably have coffee stains on me, but at least i was in glorious company.

ok, time to go, else i will miss the good coffee hours in my current client's premises :)

i will try to wake up 5 minutes earlier tomorrow to be able to tell you about meetings :)...