We have just stopped for lunch.
Out of ten agenda items, we have covered three.
I blame this, in part, on the fact that our faculty gets along so well and cares a lot about our shared work. Everyone has a great deal to say, and adds footnotes and friendly amendments to everyone else's points.
But, we need to get through the agenda.
Thus, as the person nominally running this meeting, I have told my colleagues that our post-lunch focus will be laser sharp, and that the talky folks should eat enough during the luncheon that they'll be sleepy (rather than talky) when we reconvene.
3:40 PM: Victory is mine! We got through the remaining agenda items and adjourned just after 3:00 PM. I'm home already contemplating the left over retreat cookies.
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I think faculty meetings would make for a good movie, kind of along the lines of My Dinner With Andre.
I suspect those remaining 7 items were not very deep, or not as attractive as the wine/cheese waiting for everyone at the end of the retreat.