The day started bright and sunny, and the week is trending that way, according to the forecasts. I will see it in the morning, and that’ll be about all I see of it this week. There’s a lot going on, and it’ll be lighter than usual here.
So almost non-existent?
If you want to be cynical about it, dear straw man construct.
What would be the point of inventing this dialogue, otherwise?
To pad the post with paragraph breaks and an empty construct?
Who’s being cynical now? And on Monday, even.
Exactly.
It was a day full of meetings, most of them over Zoom. I don’t know if you’ve been in a meeting where the person in every Zoom window simultaneously raised their eyebrows and watched 10 pairs of eyes get wide simultaneously, but that happened in my first meeting of the day.
Someone mentioned something about a specific deadline on a particular project which pushed things up considerably. No one else was familiar with this date. I consulted two notebooks and my batch of post it notes and saw no such date. We decided maybe the speaker had misspoken. Perhaps he was thinking of another deadline for another project, and another group of people. It would be understandable, everyone has more than one project.
One of my large projects will wrap this week. I’ve been producing a singing contest show. And my last meeting of the day was with the organizers of that event. We have the names of the contestants now. Eighteen will enter, 10 will advance to the finals. Fortunately, I do not have to produce the finals. I spent three-and-a-half hours on the semifinals this thing, going over details we should have well in hand by now. But at least some of them are in, so I can finally write the show’s rundown. Another meeting on this tomorrow, and more all week. At some point all of the music will come in. And the scripts. And the entire speaker’s list. At least I have a crew for the show.
We have hit none of the deadlines I established for this project. It will still be better organized than when we did this same event last year.
Here’s a show the students posted this weekend. I like the shows like this, where the crew working on it just seem to be having a ton of fun.
They, and their fellow IUSTV crews, will produce at least six studio shows this week. It’s a delight to watch them grow.
Anyway, I left the office at 7:30 tonight and, yes, I am keeping score.
Let’s check in on the cats, as we so often do on Mondays. Phoebe found some morning sun and proves once more that it’s a pretty good life to be a cat in this house.
Poseidon would agree, except I framed this so that his sister said it. So, to be difficult, he would probably find fault with that, and try to bite her. It’s a good thing he’s occasionally charming, I tell him, he can be a trying cat.
Not that you’d ever know it from handsome looks like that.
(I have to play this cool and dish out some compliments. He’s sitting next to me as I type this.)
