Tumbleweed Timeline 2021

Year of Unbridled Optimism

January: The Tumbleweed Committee meets for the first time, and we all agree that our purpose is to do something vaguely interesting.

February: We decide to make a to-do list, but promptly forget what it was for.

March: Our chairman accidentally schedules a meeting for the 32nd of February, and we all pretend it's a joke.

April: The world outside our window starts to look like a slightly more interesting shade of gray.

May: We realize we've been using the same font for every meeting since 2018.

June: The committee votes to replace the font, but the vote is a tie, so we just use Comic Sans instead.

Read on for the summer of disappointment

Summer of Disappointment

July: The ice cream in the break room melts.

August: The air conditioning in the conference room breaks.

Read on for the quarter of quagmire

Quarter of Quagmire

July 15th: The conference room floods due to a burst pipe.

July 16th: The insurance adjuster says it's not covered.

Read on for the season of stagnation

Season of Stagnation

September: The committee members all start wearing identical "I'm with stupid" t-shirts.

October: The office coffee machine starts spitting out coffee beans.

Read on for the fall of ennui

Fall of Ennui

November: The committee members start using the phrase "peak existential dread" unironically.

December: The committee votes to disband, but the vote is invalid due to lack of quorum.