If I didn't feel that blogging were another of my disciplines I probably wouldn't blog. With the exception of practice today, my day has been spent in Beta Hell. If you aren't a programmer and, even if you are, if you don't deal with pre-Beta 2 Microsoft software, you have no idea what Beta Hell is.... my friends, I'm quite versed in Beta Hell. Blah.

I started the day with the Post Haircut Incident parent conference. I don't know if I should think it's fortunate that everyone agrees The Daughter was responding to the other little girl "starting it" or equally mortified that she retaliated at all. The Daughter apologized to all parties and ended up bringing a note home from her teachers about how wonderful her day was and how hard she worked to make the right choices.

Upon arrival at The Office, actually, in the car on the way to The Office, I retrieved my email (that handy dandy Treo) and discovered we'd received a response from The Powers That Be. Because I shouldn't go into too many details here on my blog, I'll just say that I didn't read the response as being particularly positive. The Husband doesn't think the response indicated that the issue is dead but the fine points of the response were:

- It sets precedence and therefore we have to be concerned about the morale of others;

- My job as a developer requires face to face interaction with attorneys and staff to avoid "generic work product" (what that is with an in-house developer I don't know..that's what you get when you buy OTS). I have yet to have a face to face meeting with any attorney or staff member in my office. In fact, I've only had a few face to face meetings in the 4 months I've been on staff. The truth is, we have project managers and people who do requirements analysis who do the interaction with the firm members. That's why I'm not on the current "roadshow" gathering requirements... I just implement. In a lot of firms I have performed this role too but, in this role, I'm not supposed to be.

- In a portion of my request I noted that I would rearrange my schedule to attend critical in office meetings. The response was that this makes it sounds as if I have better things to do with my time than work. In fact, what I meant was that when I do have meetings, they are always in L.A. In order to be in L.A. I have to leave at 6am and I don't get home until about 8pm.... this means I have to rearrange my life, my kids lives, my nanny's life and my husband's life to do this. I have never, not once, attended a meeting in my local office.

- Lastly, the PTB would like to see and make sure they are getting the "value out of their investment" -- which is me. I'm such a commodity.

Practice today was good. I was really happy to see how full the class was. Kiran had about 7 people for class and 3 of us doing Mysore. I skipped the second half of first series today... I opted to do Hanumanasana after Prasaritas instead. Kapotasana... uh... man I got work to do... especially on my breath. I'm out of it by the time I come up. Like I ran a marathon. Dropbacks/standing up... no drama today. I got a nice gift from one of the students... a gift certificate for a free 1/2 hour massage... I can't wait to take him up on that.

Tomorrow is going to be crazy... I'm gonna make practice but I have to be on time and out of there... we have huge meetings in our office tomorrow.. hey my first one, traveling road show for requirements analysis...which I'm not a part of. Next Wednesday is DDay apparently... I have a meeting with the PTB to actually demonstrate my value-add... now I just have to get my value-add together. Next few days will be high stress.... very high stress.