Came quite close to making a mistake regarding the timing of an important meeting in which I'm involved tomorrow morning. I'd noted the timing in my diary quite a while ago and was confident that I could afford an extra half an hour in bed and had planned accordingly. Fortunately I happened to decide on purging the emails lingering in my inbox, and discovered a recent one with a significantly earlier starting time for the meeting in question. So I won't embarrass myself on the final day of term after all.
This kind of confusion rarely if ever featured in my work in the first half of my career. Why not? Well, meeting times and locations were solidly fixed since our modes of communication were limited. As a result, sudden switches were generally out of the question since predictability was uppermost in our minds in terms of making sure it all worked. But these days last minute messaging regarding unexpected changes sometimes seems the default mode for organisations. Life has become interestingly unpredictable and, I suppose, more stressful for those who care about such things.
Happily, I'm now beyond embarrassment; though broadly speaking I'd prefer to be where I'm supposed to be on the grounds that it makes life just that bit easier.
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