I’m spending the greater part of this week in a training session for work. I find it odd that in a effort to teach me how to lead my team, some nine months after I started doing it, I’m removed from them for three days.

We’re meeting in what seems to have once been a suite at a hotel room in Knoxville. The room is freezing in the back and absolutely sweltering in the front, the chairs uncomfortable and the subject matter horribly dull. I spent the afternoon playing with the pipe cleaners they’d supplied to keep our hands busy.

All in all it’s a horrible way to spend the week, but the good news is I got coach of the month. Too bad I’m not at work to enjoy it.