Boston Baby Dolls Benefit

new_man had another great idea yesterday - make the Baby Doll's first night at Axis into a New Orleans fundraiser. I think that's fabulous - good publicity for us, and good deeds rock.

So... here's the beginnings of our promotion:

( fabulous picture behind the cut )

Where's Lakshmi

So... a busy week this week... not sure how much I'll post.

Next week we have a customer in for a "TIM" - Technical Interchange Meeting - or something like that. In general, we call it a TIM when we let the geeks talk. This time, I'm the big geek - my work is the thing being delivered, so I'm the main speaker. Not a biggie - those who know me in person, know I can easily talk non-stop for 2 hours. :) But this is pretty high-pressure, as a sense of humor is not valued at these meetings, and non-stop geek speak is a little more work than merrily babbling along about India and the SCA.

So.. right now, we are doing the major final reviews of my requirements analysis - as usual, a week late. And, while I do these miraculous final edits, and get the paper signed off by all the critical stakeholders in the company, I also have to write up slides, to be reviewed Friday. Ahh!!

And... back when I had free time, I committed to doing a sari teaching class tonight with the Hippie Chix - a sister troupe to my own Middle Eastern troupe - who just bought a ton of saris, in preparation for some SE Asian inspired choreography. So... no working late tonight, but if the situation is dire, I may skip my own troupe's class tomorrow, if I must. (crosses fingers)

Plus - I have a court date for a speeding ticket today - so I need to jet quickly to go to West Roxbury.

Oh - and I am getting trained for 1/2 an hour in our Risk Managment Tool at 2:00. (raises hand) I know a risk!! If I don't get these stinking slides done... this project will not go well!!

Oddly, I find myself unable to get really stressed. Maybe I don't care enough... ? I'm working. Hard. But I just can't riled up about this. Maybe my stress capabilities have just been worn out from too many years of overcommitting myself. My boss certainly doesn't seemed stressed, either, so maybe I'm taking my cue from him.

Court and coincidences

So... tpau apparently had a traffic court date today, too. And our speeding tickets were about a week or two apart - but in different districts - hers is on the Pike, so state police - mine was on Morrisey Blvd in Dorchester, which meant the West Roxbury Courthouse.

Even stranger - we had the same outcome - they had lost my citation, and so I'm "not responsible" since they have no evidence on which to prosecute me. I've gone to a speeding ticket hearing three times - this is a first for me. But the same thing happened to two other people in the same session as me - so maybe someone in the paperwork filing system had a REALLY off day! In the past - one time I talked them out of it, one time they weren't convinced, and this time they lost my paperwork. All in all - not a bad rate of return. I'm thrilled. I really didn't need those points on my license.

And I'm back at work, and fed, in time to get more document work done before a 2:00 meeting!