What? Doesn't Everyone Take Notes Using Elaborate Bubble Letters?

In some wild leap of logic, I have actually convinced myself over the years that it is perfectly acceptable to openly doodle in meetings as long as the subject of the doodle somehow relates to the topic of the meeting at hand.

Case in point, my "Bailey Hearts The Super Admin. Meeting" doodle. (I also enjoy doodling sarcasm.)

A (Re)Definition

As most poorly written high school essays begin, let us start with a definition:

According to Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, the word "meeting" is a noun originating from the 14th century that means:
1: an act or process of coming together: as a: an assembly for a common purpose (as worship) b: a session of horse or dog racing
2: a permanent organizational unit of the Society of Friends
3: intersection, junction

According to The Dictionary of Sustainable Management, a meeting is:

The biggest source of wasted time in most organizations.

And according to me:

A meeting is any time you're stuck being somewhere you do not want to be and a doodle is anything creative (or not so) that you do to mentally escape the confines of said "meeting."

So if you're bored in class and are swirling around the spray paint can on your laptop's Microsoft Paint, your doodles are welcome here as well!

I'm liberal with my laughter, politics, and word definitions so submit away!

Welcome Doodlers!

Today, while enduring a 2-hour lunch meeting where we were presented with a 50+ page "handout" (ah, I believe the correct definition is novella) on how to electronically submit our timesheets, inspiration struck in the form of several pages worth of squiggly doodles.

At the mind-numbing "And this is the line where you type in your name... And over here is where you hit the enter button..." pace of that meeting, I needed something ANYTHING to do to keep my pen from lodging itself deep into my temple.

For the good of my sanity and the company's accident-report-filing HR department, I had no choice but to channel the tedium into elaborate bubbly letters and graphic puns (my two default doodling methods) that spanned across several pages of the notebook I brought for "taking notes."

And as I looked across the room at people picking at their dry hunks of catered chicken and wilty spinach salads, I knew I was not alone.

There are others out there like me, doodling away the tedium in conference rooms all across the world. There must be a place for us outside the office park: away from the droning PowerPoint presentations, the 50 page handouts! A place where we can collect the art we make out of instinct, out of our need to survive the tortures of the endless meeting!

Welcome. This is that place. We will no longer create in silence.

This blog needs you, fellow doodlers, to make it as awesome as possible.

Please email your artwork (and a description of the meeting, if you're willing to relive it) to doodlesfromameeting@gmail.com.