Splinter cell.

It's been at least a few weeks since our last reorganization here in FEMAland, so we were way overdue for some bureaucratic reshuffling. My group has been assigned to Hazard Mitigation, which I'm actually quite pleased about. The purpose of Hazard Mitigation is to rebuild damaged structures in such a way that they are less prone to future damage (stronger roofs, higher floor elevations, burying power lines instead of restringing them on poles, etc.). This is an intelligent approach to disaster recovery & is therefore terribly underutilized.

But what to call our new group? "Group" is too easy, for some reason. There's a lot of bad feeling about "teams" due to the ineptitude of previous teams (who have been dissolved in this current reorganization). "Committee"? Too bureaucratic. "Division"? Too militaristic. So what did they settle on? Oh yeah - we're being called a "cell".

Hello? Do you people follow current events? You've decided to follow al-Qaeda's nomenclature? Awesome. I propose to name our group "al-NOLA".

As an aside, I had waaaaaaaaaaay too much Dr. Pepper at lunch today. Wheee, caffeine high!!!