It’s after 7am, but it appears to be the middle of the night outside my work window. Of course, the convention center construction continues in full swing. I can’t see them, but they’re making lots of good construction racket. Metal pounding on metal and big truck motors with the occasional “backing up” beeping. I don’t think they’re even wearing night vision glasses. Lord knows what this building will look like when it’s finished!

This morning I have a Manager Meeting with my supervisor. This meeting is scheduled on my online calendar for every couple weeks or so. And she has these same meetings with the other managers in our Section. Then we all meet together (once a month) as Managers. Then that same day, we meet with all the other subordinates in the Section as a whole. In the meantime, I try to meet with my own personal subordinates once a month also. There are only 2 of them, so it generally isn’t hard to schedule.

I told Stephen when I first started working here that I rarely do anything except run from one meeting to the next. And often the meeting topic seems to be nothing more than what we might discuss in the next bunch of meetings… or maybe the development of a new group which should meet to discuss how to best organize meetings… You get the picture. Stephen’s reply was something like, “Welcome to Management.” Hmmm.