I totally forgot that today was Yom Kippur. I am such a bad ex-jew.
Actually, I am probably a very good ex-jew for totally forgetting about a major holiday. I don’t feel all that repentant either : )

However, sometimes I feel like doing committee work is atonement enough to last me throughout the rest of the year. I don’t think that the group projects that students endure in library school prepare anyone for the sheer mind numbing drudgery of committee work. Like, when you are the only person on the committee with a certain needed skill set, so you end up doing most of the work. (Although this happens in libraray school too). Or the slippery slope that you start sliding down, once you’ve done some committee work, your reward is more committee work.

At a former job of mine, I always had an interesting Thursday morning, because 3 of the 8 committees I was on were all meeting at the same time. So sometimes I would play committee musical chairs, where I would show up at one committee for 20 minutes, then go to a different part of the building for the next one, etc. Eventually I got to the point where I just went to the committee that had the most sane committee members. Sometimes they brought cookies!

I have a committee meeting soon. I think I’m getting sick, perhaps it is the Black Death, and I will not have to attend the committee, because I will no longer be suffering on this mortal plane.