{"id":1174,"date":"2008-01-12T20:29:56","date_gmt":"2008-01-13T00:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1174"},"modified":"2008-01-12T20:29:56","modified_gmt":"2008-01-13T00:29:56","slug":"how-do-i-get-behind-so-quickly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=1174","title":{"rendered":"How do I get behind so quickly?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m preparing an article for EPAA<\/a> right now, working on a Saturday night after just a week of the semester. (To answer those who’d like to nitpick: No, I’m not working on that article right now<\/em>. I’m taking a break between formatting most of the text and inserting and fiddling with tables.) So much for my resolution to keep on top of everything. <\/p>\n

In reality, I’m not that<\/em> behind or haven’t lost much ground in just 5 days, but I’ve had e-mails flying at me from about 50 directions, and there were at least three major things that happened this week that each took at least 3\/4s of a day but then needed to be squeezed into half a day. (And this last paragraph was typed after the first bit of fast-editing magic on 4 tables. I’m going to need a stiff drink for the next part, which requires some tedious formatting decisions. By stiff drink I mean a double-caff split-tall decaf grande nowhip mini-short sugar-free cinnamon hot-chile double-shot espresso, skinny with extra whip, two raw-sugar packets, iced, and a spoonful of chocolate-covered grounds.*)<\/p>\n

With another table behind me, I know that despite my crumbling patience and withering self-esteem (a joke, folks: no need to call emergency services), the medium-term picture is more important. In reality I had a short week given that my beautiful adolescent children weren’t in school until Tuesday. So in four days I did … lots of e-mail and other short writing tasks. But it’s important to keep my eyes on the prize, which is …<\/p>\n

Yeah, what is the prize? <\/p>\n

Time to move to the next table, I think. <\/p>\n

* – I don’t remember the Steve Martin movie where his character satirizes Starbucks ordering, so I had to make up my own impossible drink order. Add your own below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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