{"id":10897,"date":"2007-05-24T11:27:06","date_gmt":"2007-05-24T18:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/05\/24\/are-you-sure-this-isnt-labor-day.html"},"modified":"2007-05-24T11:27:06","modified_gmt":"2007-05-24T18:27:06","slug":"are_you_sure_this_isnt_la","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/05\/24\/are_you_sure_this_isnt_la.html","title":{"rendered":"Are you sure this isn’t Labor<\/i> Day?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For the longest time, I struggled to remember which holiday came at the beginning, or at the end, of the summer.  Finally figured out that it goes in reverse-alpha order (M<\/strong>emorial, then L<\/strong>abor Day).<\/p>\n

Anyway — dear Lord, an insane day.  Walking in the door (metaphorically), my schedule was already booked 90% with phone conferences — some of which are Big, Major, Dire Meetings of Great Consequence (personnel issues, troubled projects, SOx meetings, CIO meetings).  I also had a status report and a big quality matrix I need to do (a normal weekly assignment, usually done on Fridays).  Plus I have my scheduled “sift through and archive off some of the several thousand e-mails of the last three months so that they don’t get disappeared into the bit bucket” task.  Plus, somewhere in here, my folks are arriving at the house — and <\/em>I’m at home taking care of Margie who’s sick.<\/p>\n

And, on top of that, three <\/em>of my direct reports have asked if they can grab a chunk of my time on the phone today for Important Stuff.<\/p>\n

*sigh*<\/p>\n

I’m so <\/em>ready for a long weekend …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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