It's days like today that make me realize the value of a classical education.

See, I'm working on a project that's got all these code names from classical mythology. This project has been plagued slightly more than the usual run of changing deadlines, shifting priorities, and a whole bunch of aggro that I really can't explain without going into far more detail than would be either wise or interesting.

And it hit me today, as I was mulling over our mythologically-inspired code names, that I have the perfect explanation. We're all characters in The Odyssey. We've pissed-off Poseidon. And now we're paying for it.

But it's okay. Because if this project is the Odyssey, then I'm Odysseus. (Of course I'm the protagonist. Who else would I be?) Which means that I'm clever. And this is very reassuring, because I need to be clever right now.

I just hope that there's some way to placate Poseidon that doesn't involve carrying a Blackberry inland until someone stops me and asks what that strange calculator I'm carrying is.

(It's kind of fun being Odysseus. I occasionally play this game with myself where I psych myself up by re-imagining some particularly arduous project as the plot of a favorite book. I've been Dante (on the last big crazy work project), and Elizabeth Bennet (job hunting), and Frodo (last few months of grad school), and Toshiro Mifune's character from Yojimbo. But never Odysseus before.)

Okay. Gotta run. Talk to you later!