Jennifer Koretsky Has Tentatively Accepted

Working with Jen has been a great experience so far, but I'm still trying to get used to the way she works. It's been impossible for me to connect with her face to face, which is ridiculous considering we live together.

First, I tried just popping into her office. That was a disaster. It would have been safer popping into a bear cave. I had some success with shower meetings (the only way I could get a captive audience with Jen), but there's only so much you can accomplish in the bathroom.

So I tried the corporate approach and sent a meeting request from Microsoft Outlook. I thought that was a good idea, to plan a meeting a few days in advance. The response I got? "Jennifer Koretsky has tentatively accepted your meeting request."

Tentatively?! Tentatively accepting something in the ADD world is the equivalent of totally ignoring it. So the meeting requests are out.

I decided to stop trying to have meetings with Jen. I wanted to see how much we could accomplish over email and impromptu conversations.

Then (and I kid you not) on Saturday night just after midnight, as we were getting ready for bed, Jen turns to me and says, "Can we have a meeting now?"

 

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Comments

[Attentive]

Hey that's nothing; my ADD'er will use *any* moment (yes, *any* moment, *wink wink*) to discuss the issues of the day...very distracting and a great mood killer.

[KatieK.-yogananny]

That is pretty interesting because I too tried to converse with my husband via email and our computers are right next to each other. He reads the email but that is as far as it goes. However, I think I get my point across. Also,I just want to say it was really great seeing you guys at the conference and I started reading Jen's book. It is an easy read and in story format that makes it enjoyable. Believe it or not Jim almost read the whole book. He liked it but true to his ADD he has not finished it yet. Kudos Jen.