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.