Friday Five 9-June-2023

[elusivek]

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1. How many meetings do you have this week? Let's count classes as meetings.
This week I had an extra meeting. There's a regular meeting on Monday, but I don't have to do much, just to make sure the Zoom gadgets are working. Tuesday was an extra meeting that was like an intro to a potential service provider for something. That was a little embarrassing as the other party got wind from my surname that I'm of "some German-speaking country" and so I just said "yeah, Dad from Austria" and they went on to say that they're actually from Austria as well, from Vienna. I didn't really want to go down that route as I'm very very very cold in intro meetings, but the other party seemed enthusiastic, so I just quipped the province (province? State?) my Dad is from and made the meeting move on. On every other Wednesday I have a big scale meeting and this week just so happened to be meeting week. So, work related meetings there were 3.

Counting classes as meetings then I had 2 classes, Tuesday and Thursday, of ceramics.

2. How many of those meetings are in-person (as opposed to online or by telephone)?
The Tuesday meeting was online. The Monday and Wednesday meetings have a Zoom option but I usually prefer to be IN the conference room where there are the most people, because I can hear things better. The classes are definitely in-person.

3. Is anything actually accompliished during the meetings you attend?
Let's be real. LOL. I'm not answering that hahaha.

4. Do you enjoy the meetings you attend?
These meetings usually don't really involve me, but I like to know about what's going on in the company, so I do enjoy them; even when people are just dragging stuff out.

5. Do you do anything special to keep yourself entertained during long, boring meetings?
I sort of have the freedom to look at my phone and stuff if needed because I'm constantly working to arrange stuff for the boss, so yeah, sometimes if a meeting drags on, I'll look at my phone. But when it's a Zoom meeting and the camera is on me, I would be the most attentive person ever, even if my brain is elsewhere. Like the Tuesday meeting, the other party had 2 attendees. The speaker spoke, I listened, and the other person was like moving around so much, drinking water, moving her computer, and this and that. I know they don't have to pay much attention, but, I don't know, for the sake of the zoom meeting, just pretend to sit still maybe?

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[einhornmaedchen]

Out of interest, I looked up the English word for "Bundesland" (what you call the regions in Austria) and apparently it can be translated with province, state or federal state so you'd be good with whatever you pick ;)

Ceramics classes sound so interesting, even though I suppose I would be rubbish at it myself.

[elusivek]

haha, I'm very rubbish at it, but the master is nice to everyone. If I make something crooked, he'll say "it's handmade and rustic" or "it's got character". That actually helps to keep me interested. If they just go "it's wrong, it should be this way" then it's no fun really.

If you get a chance you should go have a try, see how it feels :-)