7:30 have sullen “working breakfast”
8:30 negotiate with customer about contractual clauses
9:30 negotiate with customer about contractual subclauses
10:00 negotiate with customer about the numbering of clauses vs subclauses
10:15 make absurd analogy in attempt to persuade
10:37 hope it’s not going to be a “working lunch”
10:45 learn that it’s going to be a “working lunch”
11:00 debate with customer about verb tenses
11:15 make preposterous analogy in the guise of an attempt to persuade, but really in an effort to amuse co-workers
12:00 have soul-crushing “working lunch”
12:30 explain past participles
1:00 make bewildering analogy, this time just to amuse self
1:30 argue with customer about table of contents
1:45 be interrupted while making crazy analogy to be asked if all my analogies involve cocaine
1:46 realize they have
1:47 think of non-cocaine analogy
1:48 analogize to Perseus and the three Stygian Witches; pump fist.
3:00 lecture customer about Kant’s categorical imperative
4:00 listen to summary of open issues
4:15 realize that, with the exception of the font for the contract (Times New Roman – a victory for decency), all issues are still open
5:00 be invited to “working dinner”
5:01 quit job and run off to join circus