I'm going crazy trying to keep my calendar from blowing up. I have two days a week that I meet with a personal trainer over my lunch hour. I have a third day each week that I almost always have lunch with one of my best friends whom I would otherwise never get to see. The other two lunch hours are often filled with meetings. I'm used to that, but suddenly, everybody and their brother wants to schedule a lunchtime meeting. I'm already well into March, and I don't have a single free lunch hour. I know that sounds like no big deal, but it sometimes nice to just sit at my desk and read TE.

But today was emblematic of what really drives me crazy. I scheduled a meeting for today about a month ago with the volunteer coordinator at the YMCA. Last week, an issue came up at work that required a meeting for today, so I rescheduled my Y meeting for Thursday--which meant that I had to cancel lunch with my girlfriend. Then my work meeting got cancelled so suddenly today was open again. Last night, I got an email from the woman at the Y saying that she had to cancel Thursday's meeting. I asked if she could meet today--the day we were originally scheduled to meet. Fine; she say. That'll work. Then this morning she cancelled on me because of a conflict that just arose on her end.

Did you follow all that? Likely, you didn't because even my head is still swimming. See, I contort my calendar only to then have everything cancel at the last minute anyway. It's maddening.

So, now I'm moving onto breakfast meetings. I hate breakfast meetings, but if it means my lunchtime calendar is less crazy, then so be it.