(My boss is out of town, so suddenly I'm responsible for negotiations wherein we stand to lose a big chunk of money and a major program. Which, hey, it's tough all over, but I really believe in this program and it's demonstrably making a very real impact.)

(And of course nobody's given me the actual program budget, plus the head of the program is on vacation and unreachable. So I won round one during a five-hour meeting earlier this week, and I'm now preparing for round two in a couple days.)