Work, Rodin, and the Greeks. Painfully strained metaphors.
So I'm done with the big project for the Professional Development Program at work, and I'm going on to work in Professional Services starting on Monday.
I'm amazed; these past few weeks I felt like our project team was on the verge of becoming a real-life version of Rodin's "Caryatid who has Fallen Under her Stone", crushed by the overwhelming load of trying to get 23 people to work together on a development project, and actually get something worthwhile done in five weeks without killing each other. Fortunately, at the last minute (literally---a handful of us were holed up in a conference room 40 minutes before the final presentation, hacking away), and with great effort, we were able to heave the stone back in place, supporting the architrave with nary a stack trace, even during the more detailed "technical" presentation.