It's been one of those days when I've tried incredibly hard to explain something, or ask something very clearly to lots of different people, and I've ended up going round in massive circles of misunderstanding.
It feels like a puzzle, but a puzzle where I'm not sure I've got all the pieces, where the people I'm doing the puzzle for might not have the same picture on the same box, and none of them are really all that sure I should be sitting here doing puzzles in the first place. Talk about cross-purposes!
I know what you're thinking - a lovely meeting would sort all this out. Let's get everyone together in a room and discuss it! If meetings are for anything, surely they're for this!
Yeah. Except I'm not really in the 'bang-your-heads-together' group that can call meetings just like that. I'm just a puzzle-builder with a handful of pieces.
The worst part of this is that you can bet your skittles that the miscommunication will end up being my fault! That's the problem with ringing around everyone for help - the common denominator, the spreader of misinformation, the bug in the system... is me. Who knows whether I've accidentally muddied the previously perfectly clear waters? Who knows whether I am the fly in the ointment? All I know is that every call complicates what I found out on the last one.
So, either I've cleared things up today, or I've made it about ten thousand times worse. I bet I can guess which.
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