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Natch!17confirm that. They looked alike, and from what I%u2019ve read, thatHemingway guy seemed to share Will%u2019s determination andboldness, but I%u2019ll leave it for Others to judge.I took a seat in the back. I prefer to sit in the back by the fruit.Sometimes these meetings go on and on and I get hypoglycemic.Also, there%u2019s a private restroom back here with a great area rug. Itdoesn%u2019t quite fit the space, but the colors are fabulous.Nate and Betty were, as usual, the last to arrive. They typicallyhad a t%u00eate-%u00e0-t%u00eate before these meetings, getting their ducks in arow. Nate insisted. It drove him crazy how Betty promised toomuch and disregarded budgets and deadlines. Betty counteredthat he was too rigidly fixated on schedules, rules and agendas,and lost sight of the big picture. %u201cWhat are we really trying to dohere?%u201dNate insisted on formal agendas at least a day before eachmeeting. He wanted the meeting to last no longer than an hour.And he insisted that I take the minutes and circulate them by theend of the day to all participants for comment (no one ever did).In this, Betty humored him because she didn%u2019t really care, and itwas easier than arguing. Betty was happy to let the meetings goas long as they were going somewhere. Some of the jellyfishmeetings had gone on for days, weeks even. There were so manyideas, so many configurations. No one could narrow it down.Folks showered during the breaks and the interns just keptrefilling the fruit, cheese, and vegetable trays. True, the lemurmeetings had been quick%u2014sometimes you just know. But themeeting over the horse%u2014how many toes%u2014had started on aTuesday in October and gone through April Fool%u2019s. And thepenguins%u2014fly or swim, fish or bird? How are they going tosurvive that cold? It was brutal.Despite her proclivity to dabble in chaos, Betty was also just aslikely as Nate to call it when they hit a wall. Everyone loved thedragon concept, but no one could figure out how to make it