Laura, I want to sing "Autumn in New York" to you, but that's really about the city.

Best thoughts to your dad, Sue!!

Thanks everyone. I don't know when surgery is supposed to happen today, but I am pretty stressed. I'm sure if this week hadn't been so turvy topsy, I wouldn't feel so much like my head's going to explode.

My RMT had a cancellation for this afternoon, so I am having a massage, but I almost feel too wound up for it.

Current 7AM meeting conversation:

Manager: Remember how we voted on what tasks we thought needed to be done? This one got the most votes, so I was going to do Thing 1 to fulfill it.

Everyone else: We really thought that meant Thing 2.

Manager: But everyone has to be involved in developing Thing 2.

EE: Okay, but it's really critical to our work, which is why we all voted for it.

M: I could work on the one that got the next-most votes.

EE: Or...we could figure out how to get Thing 2 done.

M: Well, thing 2 is really complicated.

EE: Right, which is why it's important to all of us.

M: Are you sure you don't want Thing 1?

EE: I guess we could start with that, but we really REALLY need Thing 2.

M: Well, did we all agree on what that task meant when we voted on it?

Dana: *head explodes, promises self doughnuts for surviving this meeting*

Good luck, Sue. The whole surgery scheduling thing is crazy and hard to wait through.

Hope the massage helps, Sue. Continuing surgery~ma.

Loved As I Lay Dying.

Have fun going or have a good rest not going, Shir

No superpowers apparent yet. Not sure what the power of yogurt might be, though, so can't really test systematically.

We need to plan.

But we need to see the plan before we can plan.

The whole plan is too big.

We need at least an outline of the plan.

We're too busy to put together the whole plan.

But how do we know what parts of the plan to plan if we don't have a plan?

Your meetings are, like, the platonic ideal towards which all meetings aspire, Dana. Benchmarks.

Manager is now sighing and put-upon and saying nothing she ever does is good enough.

OH MY GOD someone is proposing smaller working groups, which is what I've been saying SINCE I STARTED THIS JOB because we are scattered across the world and 7AM is literally the only time we can all meet and having everyone involved in every piece of everything is NOT FEASIBLE.

Sounds like you needed a pre-planning meeting and a pre-meeting for the pre-planning meeting to be ready for the planning meeting.