“my life is a series of continual meetings” – Tabitha Smith

I said that sometime during my undergrad experience at Moody and, I’m sad to say. It has lasting on through my graduate school experience as well and probably for the rest of mmy life.

I hate meetings. I abhor them with a passion.

I had a meeting to explain how to use the content management based site at Moody to design a new (and improved) Grad school web site. How do I get roped into these things? I don’t know. Note to all of those interested in design, don’t tell people you know what you’re doing and suffer bad designs in silence.

Anyways I have a fairly good idea what I’m doing with html and etc. I’ve used content mangagement based sites before (Xanga actually is a content management based site). Now, the lady who is actually the driving force behind CHANGING the web site was in the meeting too and had no clue what’s going on and I’m about ready to fall asleep. Finally I had to cut it short because I was already late for… *drum roll please* my next meeting.

Then I had newspaper meeeting. Now, I’m layout. The meetings are mostly for the page editors (my time to work is usually only paste up night when I put the paper together). It’s not as bad as the torture of learning how to use the moody web site. But I do get upset when layout people are treated like second class citizens. For example. First issue, I was able to meet with the photo editor and my editor and talk about what the photos should look like. Ever since that issue I haven’t been asked. So today I got a bit ticked off. I fought to keep something standardized and was a bit more agressive than I am normally.

Don’t get me wrong, meetings are a necessary part of life and organization. We need meetings. But to some extent I’d just rather someone send me an email or call me or something.

Alright, enough railing on about meetings.

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