Meeting De Jour

Today is the second of a pair of day-long meetings here on base. It's my first time taking minutes for such a large group and am therefore very glad that M. is next to me taking notes. There are approximately 30 people in the room which is tricky, but my biggest problem is that I largely don't have a clue what they are talking about. The language, the processes, the systems - everything is foreign to me. And then to just icing the cake, people don't talk in coherent sentences - they jump around from from the middle of one sentence to the beginning of one they started five sentences back to just complete chaos. Just finding the subject and verb for me can be a very difficult task. When will I feel confident that I'm competent?

Yesterday I put in a 9.25 hour day, and I'm curious what today will entail. And, oh look, time to go back. Woo hoo!