Stress alert.

I think I'm letting the Grand Visier's stress get to me. It's turning into something of a running joke around here - will the Grand Visier or my Jedi Master be the first to have a nervous breakdown? Personally, I think the odds are at around 50/50.

At any rate, we're starting to get the distinct impression that one of our clients doesn't really know what they're doing and, given how highly strung the Grand Visier is, this is causing her a certain amount of stress.

She's very good at passing stress on to other people, even people as relaxed as I am.

The main problem, I suspect, is that she and I have each inherited parts of this situation from Darth Chaos and the Empress of Production, both of whom were highly experienced and capable of not letting other people take any of their own stress on board. I just need to keep breathing steadily and reminding myself that I am cool, calm and collected. I do not need to stress about this. All I need to do is deal with the packaging which, given how little I have to do at the moment (god help me, I've started working on fanfic again. On work time! There's a rather nice little piece of freeware out there called FreeMind, which was developed by a published science fiction author to help him write stories...), is not that difficult to slot in.