10/19/2005 Archived Entry: "Useless"

Attended multiple hours of meetings today, including one meeting where my presence was completely unnecessary. Somewhat ironically, that meeting included a notice on the WebEx shared workspace that we should all "Have a propensity towards velocity and urgency to move forward. Ask yourself, 'How can I help drive it?' ", which is not quite the most retarded thing I've ever heard, but it's definitely way up there, sounding almost like something that could have come out of the Dilbert Mission Statement Generator.

The higher I rise in my profession, the more telecons become part of my daily activities. I despise telecons. People struggling with web-enabled shared applications, talking on top of each other through the speakerphone lag, and the one guy who's fallen asleep without muting his phone so he's snoring into everyone ears--fabulous. All of it.

Dreamed last night that I died in my sleep, but my spirit/ghost/whatever was allowed to stick around for a few hours and coach Teh Wife through finding me dead. I was supposed to tell her that everything was going to be all right, help her get dressed and call 911, and in general just hang out until the ambulance arrived to set the machinery of death in motion. It was a tough dream.

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