I work in a wacky place. For instance, today when my staff meeting got a little dull, just to liven things up a little bit we put my sister on speakerphone and made her 4-year-old read a book to us. You see, he's already reading really well and it's funny to listen to this cute little 4-year-old voice say big words just fine like "envelope." He did seem to have a little trouble with the word "reunion" - kept forgetting how to pronounce it.

Still not sure exactly what he was reading to us.

Anyway, we concluded the conference call with an opportunity for all of us childless, single people to tell her how to raise her child. Now that's a productive staff meeting. (note to those of you who don't know: I work for a dotcom that has absolutely nothing to do with children or parenting.)

After that I took a call from a college professor who tracked me down to see if I was doing anything interesting with my life, and find out if I was hiring interns. If he'd been to the staff meeting, I'm not sure he would have believed me when I said I'd met with a certain degree of success since my graduation.