Teamwork

So, due to the insanity of being an Accounting major, part of the requirements of my Accounting Information Systems class is that I have an absolutely massive project to do with an estimated completion time of (no, I’m not exaggerating) 30 hours.
 
Luckily(?), the assigned project is actually a group project, meaning one can work in teams and hopefully speed up the entire process. This would have worked perfectly well except for, due to my lack of socialization with other accounting majors and my general inability to pay attention, all but a couple of members of the class formed teams before I was even aware we were supposed to form teams. Thus, I’m stuck with the leftovers.
 
Now, granted, I could likely do the project just as quickly (though, admittedly, a bit more tediously) on my own time, but this is supposed to be a group project, and, damn it, I’m going to make the rest of my group work too. Unfortunately, this poses problems. Early morning meetings are rather out of the question (it’s difficult to work with a hangover), but meeting too late poses problems as well (one meeting has already been cancelled due to a group member having to meet with his probation officer). Being the de facto leader of the group, it has been my job to work around such circumstances, and I’ve been doing a decent enough job so far, in my opinion.
 
Still, today rather epitomized how things have been going. After scheduling a 12:30 meeting, I showed up to find none of my 3 group members present. Even worse, I reached into my pocket only to realize I’d left my cellular at home, and, thus, couldn’t simply call them and remind them that, yes, I did indeed mean Eastern Time. So. I waited 25 minutes, after which, upon no one’s arrival, I left.

Of course, after my 20 minute sojourn back to the apartment, I walked inside to hear my cellular phone ringing. I answered it and heard the voice of one of my beloved teammates. “Hey, where are you man? I’m in the accounting lab and no one’s here.” So. I then had to take another 20 minute sojourn back to the same place I just came from, and finally start on the group project, only an hour after I had scheduled.
 
And, despite my frustrations, I did not speak one ill word of my annoyance. Because there’s no I in team.