All day team meeting today. Pray for me. We start at nine and plan to work straight until 5:30 - which is when electricity and plumbing get turned off in our building (because of the addition being built on). I've done all-day team meetings before - once for the case competition last January (which was pure hell - imagine nearly 48 hours without sleep, being a small room with four other people, and then having to present your results to unsmiling executives at 8 in the morning). Then there was the final part of our Operations exam - another one of those "write a 15-page paper on oil shipping platforms and the most economical and efficient way of routing cargo" in two days. You get really punch-happy really fast, not to mention, you get to know your teammates extraordinarily well when it's 3 am and you're all starting at each other, bleary-eyed, wondering what's what.

The positive thing here is that I like my teammates, we work well together, and it'll be nice to get this whole project finished today and not have to worry about it later. I'll have another 30+ page paper on seafood to edit next week, so it'll be nice to focus completely on that project and not have to think about this one (on the automative industry) again - other than editing issues -until the day it's due - December 5th.

The Microsoft paper is done, with the exception of some iffyness on organizational structure - we suspect this information is old since my research turned up that Rick Belluzzo was let go during a company reorg earlier this year. This info looks old as well but we can't find info on what we think MS's new structure looks like - which is five-divisional with seven consumer groups stemming from that. Anyone know for sure?