Today with Patty

Today With Patty: Preschool And Caffeine

by Patty

My sister and her family are moving to the Triangle shortly and are in need of daycare for the four-year fruit of her womb. I have been a tremendous help with housing, jobs and things of that nature. But I am completely stymied about preschools and babysitting. Luckily, Kate Davis in my office is available to solve all of my problems. She is calling preschools to figure out how it works, what it costs and availability. I do not think Kate Davis is happy about that, but I know I am.

In fact, I was talking to Erika Mangrum today about a fundraising project that we are going to be working on and I explained to her that I was going to have Jen in my office do most of the work and Kate Davis will help her, Erika started whining that she wanted a Kate Davis in her life too. No such luck Erika. Kate Davis hates doing it for me and I guarantee she would not like doing it for you.

Vanilla Bean

We have quite the drama going on in our office right now. Apparently Gray & Creech, who provides all of our wonderful, designer, yuppie coffee and water, is no longer offering Vanilla Bean. You can not imagine the consternation that this has caused. Now mind you, we have 10,387 different flavors of coffee downstairs. But my office is mourning over Vanilla Bean. You are probably wondering how we got 10,387 flavors. When we had our original taste-testing with Gray & Creech, they brought over all of the different types of coffee and warm Krispy Kreme doughnuts for a testing and selection. I did not attend this event. So the entire office, on a sugar-induced high, ordered every flavor of coffee known to man. Of course, no one drinks all these flavors, because they are hooked on the Vanilla Bean.

MMI Rehab

Speaking of being addicted to caffeine, I learned today that many of the interns that we have had in the past, have become addicted to coffee after a semester at MMI. Heather, who was an awesome intern last semester, apparently left here hooked on what else – vanilla bean. It is my understanding that Matt is going to have to go into rehab for his caffeine issues but I hear he is looking forward to meeting Britney Spears. I of course am only allowed to have decaf.

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