Waiting for the lull

Dying for it is more like it.  I need the break.

I have a major project due for a major client that has to get done this week.  As of Friday it is actually 3 weeks overdue, through no fault of my own, but overdue nonetheless.  When this thing goes out on Friday, it's going to be a huge weight lifted off of my shoulders.  And I think, I hope, that I get a little bit of down time.  A couple of weekends where I don't work.  A couple of weeks where I can climb twice a week.  I mean I know it's bad for my hours to have a lull, but if the work isn't there, it's the partner's fault and not mine.  If the work isn't there it isn't there.  And although in the end I will get blamed for not hitting 2000 hours if I can't quite make it I can't quite make it.  Fuck it.  That's how I feel.  I know we are still busy, but without a major project, I am not sure all the little ones add up to enough.

Anyway, I told a little lie.  I told the partner that I have to leave at 4:30 on Friday and I did that to make sure that the project actually goes out Friday at a reasonable hour.  If I don't impose a definite end point, then I can't get the partner's attention to review it.  Basically, the partner and I are opposite.  I go in early and leave early he goes in late and stays late.  When I say I am leaving at 3 pm that means I am really running out the door at noon.  When he says he is leaving at 3 pm that means it will be a miracle if he actually leaves by 6.  If I have a project due Friday, I am done with it on Thursday.  If he has a project due Friday, that means 11:59 pm on Friday night.

So to ensure that I don't get stuck there on Friday night, waiting around for the partner, I have imposed upon this project a definitive deadline.  If he knows I am leaving, then he will look at it - he will squeeze it in.

So, I have an appointment on Friday at 4:45.  I just didn't tell him it's an appointment with the climbing wall.