I had completely forgotten the fact that, starting today, another development editor and I would be taking over running our team’s monthly cross-Atlantic meetings. Or, rather, it had somehow slipped my mind that today was today, if that makes any sense. (This whole working from home on Tuesdays can sometimes make Wednesday feel like Monday, or at least make the whole week feel a little weird.)
My counterpart in the UK had suggested she’d be providing cake, and I’d promised to pick something up for the US contingent. This, of course, got rolled into the things I’d forgotten, so I had to slink back out and pick something up. Luckily, there some pretty decent bakeries to choose from in midtown Manhattan, and I settled on an assortment of cupcakes for our little group.
I think the meeting went well. I was a little worried about having to put names to faces, which is something I’m rather exceptionally terrible at, in the notes I was taking, but it ended up being more of a free-wheeling back-and-forth conversation among us all about the pros, cons, and practicalities of getting student reviews of textbooks. It may become more of an issue next month, when I’m leading the meeting and my counterpart is taking notes, but we’ll see. We haven’t even decided what our topic of discussion for next month’s meeting will be.
After that, a pretty normal Wednesday. More searching for reviewers, more listening to It on audiobook. And somehow, just like that, the week’s half over.