Living the dream

Sometimes, my children, working in an office is an experience. There’s all the meetings, strange lunch conversations, and forced comraderie. Often, you actual do develop deep, lasting friendships with some of your coworkers, but not every one of them.

And sometimes, there are those things you have to participate in as a department that you’d rather shoot yourself than do. Like the department meeting/how-your-brain-works conference I just returned from.

Being forced to play games—like making a “sculpture” with a coworker, dancing, and making up symbols to memorize things—when you’re really stressed about the work you left sitting on your desk is a bit much. And left me thinking that I was sitting in on one of Michael Scott’s conference room meetings on “The Office.”

I was seriously waiting for someone to pull out that picture from Big of Tom Hanks and that other guy playing the big piano. (Because music is helpful to brain function and memory, you know.)

So everyone, think of me in my cute dress and cuter shoes parading around a room with my coworkers pretending to be a sculpture.

And laugh. I give you permission.