Mental Collapse: Recurring Event

Coworker: “Have you done the daily breakdown?”

Me: “No, I usually schedule those in the afternoon.”

Coworker: *Confused.* “But the daily report meeting is at noon.”

Me: “Oh! Sorry, I thought you meant my daily mental collapse. If you’re referring to the daily report breakdown, then yes, those are done.”

Coworker: “You schedule your daily mental breakdowns?”

Me: “I have to, or I’d get pulled into a meeting. My calendar is nothing but meetings. Every spare minute that exists on my calendar is fodder for the ravenous, never-satiated beast that is meetings, and I—”

Coworker: “—Got it. Now I know why those are daily…”