Teamwork unworkable

Teamwork can truly push you to the absolute limit. Yesterday was hot and stuffy and while my friends lounged outside catching a tan, I had to catch up with my group to do our journalism comic assignment. It is an interesting and creative assignment and for once we do not have to learn theory, instead our task is to take action packed photographs and turn them into a fun comic that suits our blog. Our idea centres on four potatoes that have completely opposite personalities. On a daily basis they are subjected to some form of pain, either emotional or physical. After one too many bad ordeals they decide to unite and conquer evil. The evil characters are words, such as assault, rape, rejection and so on who also take the form of potatoes. The four of potatoes successfully destroy evil, using potato cooking utensils and the comics ends with the villains turned into delicious potato dishes. It sounds easy enough but it is damn hard and needs a dedicated team to pull it off. Our tea, is already one down and then another team mate decides that the pool is calling her name too strongly and so does not arrive. So there we were, just two farts in the wind, attempting to pull the project together. But today is a new day, with renewed hope in our team member, except that it is now 14:22 and she still hasn’t arrived for the 14:00 meeting. It was vital that she come today because of what she had to bring to the meeting. Irritation, frustration and a need to “bring out the bitch” is coursing through me veins but what can you really do? We have to get on with it because our arses are still on the line. We just need to keep our feelings in our veins until it is time to evaluate our team member …