She laughed and shook her head a little, which caused a few curls to fall into her face.  She pushed them away and grinned. "True, but call it immersion training for life when I am finished with school. Although even incident command might be more restful than my current schedule"  She said as she took his offered hand and stood up.  Truth was their chosen paths weren't all that much different.  Lots of hurry up and wait, followed by intense periods of sustained activity.  She guessed you could probably label them both adrenaline junkies.  They just didn't get their fix by jumping out of airplanes.  

She fought the urge to cross her arms over her chest, she still felt very very naked, and this was not a dress that allowed for a bra, so she felt semi exposed.  "Heels are no problem.  Wait until you see my work shoes.  Three inch heels for eight to sixteen hours."  She took an experimental couple of steps and frowned.  "The dress however might be an issue.  How do you not trip on all this fabric?"  She tried another couple of steps and grumbled quietly. 

She looked at Serge and raised an eyebrow. "Well you are the SME.  (Subject matter expert) Does it look ok?"  She chewed her lip nervously.  She was about as comfortable and excited about this as a three tailed cat in a room of rocking chairs.  "I mean, we can totally forget this ever happened, and You can do the humane thing, and assign me some twenty one year old kid, who just signed up.  Or better yet... I got it!"  She said her eyes lighting up with that playful teasing glint.  "Got anyone who needs punishment duty? I can do that, we can do a half marathon, followed by some stair sprints for an hour, and then I will take them with me to work, and actually serve them some of that crap we call food.  It will be perfect, I'll be protected, You'll be where I want you to be, aaaaaaaaaaaand No one is happy.  Isn't that the very definition of compromise?"  

In her mind it was a perfect idea.  Everyone sort of got what they wanted out of the deal, and she wouldn't embarrass herself attending an event she had no business attending.  "I mean if you think about it, it really is a perfect solution. I can even throw in a few audio recorded lectures by a professor who sounds like he sucked down an entire tank of helium.  I mean it would be a great time."  She gave him a wide grin.