Meetings!

Today I had a meeting. I don't guess I've mentioned that I am a high school Media Specialist and I also have a couple of other jobs with the school. Well today I had a state level yearly meeting pertaining to one of the other part time jobs. If you read my earlier post on family reunions and certain rituals you will understand what I mean about the requirements for a "meeting". Here is a list of things that describe an "official" meeting...the ones we all hold so dear!

1. A cold sterile room, devoid of any adornments on the wall.

2. A long rectangular table in the back of the "meeting room" that holds coffee, orange juice, and donuts.

3. Name tags.....we musn't forget the name tags and today we had not just the stick on ones where you write your own name but "official" nametags with the picture from our 20 year old driver's license imprinted on them.

4. Folders which contain various colored sheets of paper that have been stapled together and an agenda. You will always have the printout of the boring powerpoint so you can take notes.

5. A boring powerpoint.

6. "Miss Insecure" . She is the participant that has to have every bullet point of the entire powerpoint explained to her personally while everyone else sits and waits.

7. Mr. Know It All. He is the participant that tries to explain everything to Miss Insecure before the presenter gets a chance.

8. A "focus group". No meeting is complete without breaking up into focus groups. These are really an opportunity for people to sit around and shoot the breeze for 20 minutes.

9. Finally, the evaluation at the end. This is suppose to help the presenter gauge how well the meeting went but who is really going to bubble in how they feel!!! We all know one day we might have to be the "presenter".

Anyway, when I finally made it home I found I had scored big on an auction and won some more pieces of a set of dishes I am trying to collect. I'll bet you're familiar with it...Spode Pink Tower. Here is a picture...eat your heart out!