I guess I'm in kind of a weird mood today because I have the Big Creepy Meeting From Heck this afternoon. It's at about the time I'd normally be going home, so I'm not all that happy about it. I'm going as a non-voting person, my committee has asked me to show up to ensure that things stay "fair" and "apolitical." So I guess you could say I'm playing the Jimmy Carter role there. I'm still not looking forward to it. I hate people getting angry and cranky and disagreeable with each other over things where either (a) I can see both sides of the situation, and both have merit or (b) the stakes are really so low that it's not worth people raising their blood pressure over.

Also, we're supposed to get big massive honking storms. I will NOT be happy if my car gets dinged up with hail that falls during this meeting, when I could have been home with my car safely in the garage.. (I am holding out a tiny and secret hope that it will hit before the meeting and all power on campus will go out, so we will be unable to meet. Except then I will have to beg people again "set aside x hours on an afternoon so this can be argued about.")

I suppose I should have brought some knitting with me, to whip out when it gets to the point where I feel like deceased horses are being flogged, but I'm not that secure in my position on campus yet to be able to feel like I can make that kind of nonverbal commentary.