W390 Week 9: Communication Breakdown

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My team is experiencing Communcation Breakdown and unfortunately it's not just a Led Zepplin tune.

The communication on Team 1 is problematic. One of my teammates and I have exchanged messages, including the whole team on the mailing list, and so far we're a no go for accomplishing anything. When the team was formed by the instructor, the prevailing meet up time amongst us as far as our availability is concerned was listed as Thursday afternoon. My one communicative teammate suggested meeting up before that for a preliminary chat session and I suggested Tuesday. I never heard back about that day from her and no one else responded. Like I said last week, one member doesn't appear to be in the class at all. So that leaves three of us and so far only two of us are talking. I got a message today confirming our afternoon meetup, but maybe we crossed paths because I was alone in our Team 1 chat room and the main chat room during our time. I went in the chat room and waited a bit. Then I left my desk for a while and came back to find no messages or evidence that anyone had shown up. I kept an eye out on the chat rooms for a while but never found anyone. Maybe my one partner got busy and forgot. It happens. As a matter of fact, I forgot a phone appointment with my advisor this morning. We're all human so occasional forgetfulness is a fact of life. My concern is that the messaging is not working because we're not making timely enough responses. I think the chat will work great if we can all show up at the same time. I don't expect to be able to arrange any other form of meetup if we can't schedule them through email messages. I don't see my classmates in person because this is a web class.

Well, that was a bummer of a post. I'm sorry I don't have something more positive to say. I have a massively busy weekend ahead of me starting tomorrow so I won't be able to get together with my group. On the upside, the reason I'll be so busy is because I'll be working at a Magic the Gathering Grand Prix. I work a few events each year and love every minute of it. Often I get to travel around the country and see new places while I'm working these fun events. This time, the event is here in Indy. Wherever it is located, I love seeing my friends from all over the country.