The Meeting

[emeraldsedai]

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[serenity_valley]

Homicidal rage
This icon is for That Guy.
You're fucking awesome.

[emeraldsedai]

My LiveJournal friends
Are the best folks in the world.
Some are maniacs.

Awesome, awesome icon!

[emeraldsedai]

It was the socks one that had me giggling uncontrollably, which in turn caused the boss to ask me if I was okay--because seriously I'm pretty sure I looked like I was weeping.

I had to write him an apology after the meeting.

[emeraldsedai]

Astonishingly enough, my outburst caused me no discomfort at all. Me, the shame queen.

I was so impressed with my own hilarity that I didn't see how overwrought I've become at work until this morning, when I woke up with an intense and irresistible desire to waste half a tank of gas driving out the Columbia Gorge.

Upon which errand I am about to embark. Photos will almost certainly ensue.

[makena_smiles]

Those are hilarious!! At least if a portion of your day was sucked up by a ridiculous time wasting meeting the haiku awesomeness is a positive side.

[emeraldsedai]

Thanks. It was a pressure-valve, for sure. I just hope nobody noticed me sitting there counting syllables with my fingers on the deck of my laptop when I was supposed to be taking minutes...

[roseambr]

I feel your pain!!! OMG! This is the kind of meeting where you understand "going postal!"

[emeraldsedai]

I was about as close as I ever get these days to losing it.

Well, in fact, I did lose it. But at least I lost it to giggling instead of screaming with a shotgun, huh?

[decemberleaf]

"Ninety five unrecoverable
"Minutes of my life."

Not entirely. What about this haiku? Right on target! (Made me squirm.)

[emeraldsedai]

I take it, then, that you, too, know the pain of office work?

Actually, my career in government has been very good to me (not least by giving me the freedom to screw around writing haiku every now and then and still be employed). The meeting here was just a particularly strong example of Dilbert-level bad management.