Today's Observation: Meetings + Me = Fail
The importance of a meeting is directly proportional to the amount of sweat secreted. This, I learned for certain today. I'm normally a rational, functioning member of society. I'd say a good 360 days out of the year, that's the case. Those other five or so days? I've got "important meetings"; which require me to wake up in a haze, forget who I am and how to tie a double windsor knot, to use MapQuest instead of Google Maps, to think a certain freeway travels East when it's really North, to park a mile away, to sprint, perspire, ramble and eventually self-destruct.
In life, I am good at most, great at others and terrible at few things. Meetings? Yeah, that falls into the latter category. Especially when I actually care about them. Ugh.
THIS, however, made me feel a little bit better about today:
Thank you, Tim and Eric. And Rainn Wilson.
Sep 23, 2008
Reader Comments (34)
I'm sorry you had trouble getting to your meeting in a calm and dry manner. What is better than Rainn Wilson asking if you have to pee in a girl's mouth to make babies to make the day's stress melt away? Right, Rainn Wilson as a crazy boy-puppet. Wow. Love your work Kevin. It is always nice to come across someone who is still articulate these days. Add in funny, goofy, and geeky on top of that and I still have hope for mankind.
yes you do yes you do
Dog, I know how you feel! I turn into suck a freaking FLAKE at important meetings, it's so embarrassing. It is good to know, however, that someone as yourself, who has to deal with pressure, LIVE, daily has the same problem as the rest of us.
Keep on keepin on.
lol, i ment SUCH not suck! or did i?
Of course you do. Isn't that common knowledge.
that video was pretty much amazing. thank you for posting it!
oh yea, sorry about your meeting.
Tim and Eric can make anyone smile. Even if you were raped by your father that same morning. Oh, the beauty.
This is the first time i'm saying this and it's the gods honest truth.I lol'd while watching that.Thank you kevin.you'r a saint.
Ha, y'know what? Same thing happened to me today. Only, I'm a college yearbook editor who was just meeting with the publications committee... But the panic was all the same! Boy, nothing like sweating profusely through a silk shirt after a good run in the SC humidity and trying to give an update to your faculty advisers without having to breathe between every other letter... Oh and let's just pretend that I'm not a flake.
Keep up the good work. Ciao for now!
YESSS. When I saw that I knew that a dream of mine was coming true because Tim and Eric + Rainn Wilson = epic win.
Does it make you feel any better that I have a man-crush on you?
I know how you feel Mr. Pereira. I also have the fate of things falling apart when I really care about them. When I care a little, or when I care almost nothing at all, things seem to go swimmingly. Keep your chin up sir. For you are funny bastard that gets to bring the funny into peoples lives for a living.
i nearly peed into a girls mouth after i saw that video...
Very funny. It took me too long to realize that was Rainn Wilson (I didn't notice the "thank yous".)
As to meetings, they're USELESS. They waste time, accomplish nothing, and generally are always run poorly and ineffectually. I can't recall one meeting in my professional career that was of use to me in any way. Of course, I have been unemployed since 2001, so take my opinion with a grain or 13,494,291 of salt.
Meetings *shivers* Showing up hungover and letting out a nasty beer fart is always great payback for having to wake up early. Make sure to check and see if there is a "no farting" clause in your contract in regards to conduct not allowed during said meetings.
Wow, that is amazing. and also, the question that i've always wanted answered....
I once had a meeting in Down Town L.A with a potential client. I was already running 15min late and called ahead to let them know. I parked four blocks away by mistake($15), so I hailed a cab.($7) I got to the office about 25min late and asked the receptionist to let Mr. Walters know I was here for my 10am. I was taken into see Mr. Walters and we had a nice conversation about L.A traffic. 10min later we realized I actually didn't schedule and appointment because I was in the wrong office! Different Mr. Walters same address. What I failed to realized was that my Map Quest search had defaulted my search in Los Angeles instead of Glendale where I was suppose to go. Ended up losing the account. My only consolation that day was getting home and watching the "McHammer" episode of AOTS that night.
Werd. I currently have to sit in front of panel after panel of snobby wierdos and pretty much (a) confuse them into thinking I'm smart enough to (b) give me a job in an ultra-competitive but low-paying field that (c) I really don't want anyway. Man I hope this lottery ticket scores...
Best part about crap like that though is that once you've endured it, you feel like you deserve anything that night. Yup I'm talking about the butt.
If Jesus were a show, he'd be the Tim and Eric show.
that video was fucking awesome. You Rock Kevin P.
that kid is freaking WEIRD!!!
but funny...
My life is all meetings all day long.
I wake up late to work every single day. I walk through the door of my job and pray that i have time to make a cup of craptastic coffee before we sit ni the "Conference Room" and listen to my narcalepsy-inducing boss grind on about how we have to "Prove the math" in our daily work routine. Then I go home and nap for about an ... 2 hours. Then a meeting over lunch. Then a meeting after lunch. Then a meeting with my boss about the meetings I went on. Then an online training meeting. Then home. Rinse, repeat. I really had a point to this but now... now I just need your job. I need to go back to college. I live in a college town. It would be easy. I could blow off homework and take body shots out of the pierced belly buttons of musical theatre majors. You're right Kevin, I should. And I will. Tomorrow, I quit. You guys hiring? I could .. well I don't know what I could do but consider this my resume.
Ladies & Gentlemen...The young Bill Gates!
hahahahaha. awesome video man.
My mom is a filthy liar, I knew you had to pee in a girls mouth to make babies. UGH Ive been doing it wrong all these years!!!! Why dont they sell sex flash cards?!? That would be a big help.