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Meeting shmeeting

So, you want me to be an effective, involved employee? Here’s a tip: the all-morning planning meeting is the exact opposite of that. Outside of meetings, I can actually do work. Like the kind you pay me to do.

Locked in meetings that have no relevance to my job, here’s what you get:

Hope that was what you were looking for.

Mentally, I am elsewhere.

I have some serious spring fever going today.

I used to be cool. No, really.

First Fridays in Phoenix is a community art walk that is hosted by the local businesses and galleries in the downtown area. I used to go when I was in college, back when my course schedule consisted entirely of various art classes and more free time than I care to remember. Now in my thirties, it’s taken me a few days to recover from my first First Friday event in years, and I’ve had a chance to reflect on the experience.

Standing in the gravel driveway behind what is now a home-turned-art gallery, surrounded by a whirling mass of eclectics, with their unkempt hair, earth-friendly woven fabrics, and exhaling a strange, unfamiliar smoke, a realization came to me:
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Forest for the trees

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