My Work Notes - An Explanation

Part of working in a structured, corporate setting means spending a lot of time in meetings. Part of being a right-brain dominant person in that setting means you have to find a way to keep the unused part of your brain engaged so your conscious mind doesn't wander, or worse; doze off.

My method? Doodling.


Most people bring some kind of note-taking accoutrement with them to meetings. Mine is a small pad of paper and a pen. I do take notes, but I also inevitably end up making these kind of bizarre little doodles all over them as well. The longer the meeting, the stranger the doodles. I think it's because my subconscious is enjoying  less-fettered access to the outside world.

I'm not sure if that's what Chaucer meant when he said "idle hands are the devil's playthings," but it seems to fit.

See example:

...Just a couple of tanks advancing down the margin of the page, as if to imply "These notes about content-relevant meta tagging are now under the protection of the United States government."

Take that, terrorists.





 





 
What's unnerving to me is the frequency of absurd, abstract scrawls that I find under my pen after meetings where I don't leave with any action items.

What the hell is this??:

I don't have a good explanation for this.

Apparently a grotesquely gigantic-headed, pig-nosed, upper-lipless bald man is taking a Sunday drive in his perspective-challenged sedan convertible while the word "MUSTARD" is doing something relative to his mouth.

Is he shouting "MUSTARD" into the cosmos? Is this some perversion of Whitman's "yawp" over the roofs of the world?

Or is the "MUSTARD" flying into his mouth? Maybe the metaphysical devouring of a head-inflating condiment is analogous to the cerebral gluttony of mass-consumed information in a random-access delivery paradigm?

Or maybe I just got fucking bored.

Either way, I produce a surplus of this crap on a weekly basis, so this section of the formless mass I'm calling a blog is now the landfill for my work-inspired brain dumps.