I don't know who first said "Walk into a room like you are a punishment sent by God," but I think about it a lot before stepping into a certain kind of meeting.

Like Hanna Waddingham, "let's invade France" in Ted Lasso (couldn't find a pic. It's great.)

wow I LOVE that

I have never had such a perfect summary of a certain portion of my work life, for better or worse. Thank you.

I spent a summer being bullied at a Christian summer camp, with only a book of Mongol history to comfort me. This is one of the lessons I absorbed.

Carly Simon, I think.

Well, I do regularly disappear from public view for years on end only to reemerge ravenous and screaming, but perhaps a plague of locusts was the wrong biblical punishment to channel in order to attend municipal planning meetings.

When I come into the other office from the lab and start with "So..." everyone winces. I'm the troubleshooter/rapid responder for problems so if I'm not with the problem...

"I'm the consequences" energy

Sounds like a line in a novel. .