I just got sucked in to a four-hour-long meeting tomorrow.

I’m not a big meeting person. I have about a 30 minute (tops) attention span at meetings, regardless of my level of involvement in them, so after about half an hour I’m ready to check out - I’ve lost all interest in whatever topic it is and I’ll pretty much say or do whatever it takes to get out of the meeting.

On top of that, I’m a firm believer that good results are rarely achieved by meetings. Sure, there are a few good meetings that happen, but by-and-large, going to a meeting is like convening a congressional hearing - it takes forever to hear all the sides to every story, and then some arbitrary decision is made by committee that I really don’t care about.

I just don’t do well with meetings.

So I’m not too thrilled about being called into a four-hour-long meeting. I think that’s probably why I’m not in management and my career could potentially be considered “limited” - I want to focus on doing, not planning to plan the plan.

It really doesn’t help that the meeting is about the next phase of this project I just got off of that burned me out 110% on web development of any nature. I was starting to get my groove back, and I even put a couple of cool things (what I think are cool) out here for folks to download and use… I was starting to feel that desire to create cool stuff again.

There goes that. And I was just starting to enjoy myself.

I guess the best I can hope for now is to die in my sleep. Or at least not have unreasonable deadlines on the stuff I have to get done (which is, I think, the aim of the ridiculous four-hour meeting).