I'm having a serious a crisis.

I've been afraid for weeks now that I wasn't going to be able to get speakers for the rally. I was working through a non-profit organization to get some really awesome speakers.... It was one of those situations where every time I called the non-profit they would reassure me with all the right words, promising to send me emails with the info that I needed, promising to contact the speakers themselves.

No emails, a gazillion phone calls and two weeks later, I was finally able to squeeze the speakers contact info out of them two days ago. I contacted the speakers myself, since the non-profit never could get around to it, and of course they all declined. There's only TWO WEEKS until the event.... they're all book for other events on the same day.

I'm sitting in a sort of numb shock. I don't know where to go from here. I don't know who to contact. It's like the glass greenhouse of this rally has shattered.

Even as I write this, the display board I'm making to advertise the rally is taunting me. All the pictures I just velcroed up on it are falling off one by one. That's exactly how I feel. Like all the work I've done on this thing was stuck up with weak velcro. It was all placed there on hopes.... But my velcro didn't hold up. One by one the pieces have fallen out of place leaving a blank, empty board.