Friday, July 14, 2006

Phew.

What a week!

I damn well earned my peanuts this week, I can tell you that! Yesterday and today were mad- my desk literally vanished under the overspill of my "in" tray. I managed to sneak 10 mins for lunch, and was even interrupted during that little break.

We had one big deal that had to go through this week.... at 15h30, the day before it was due to complete, the powers that be decide that they're re-structuring the entire deal. However, the contractual date for completion was fixed. The cherry on top? All our directors with signing power to authorise payment on a deal of this size were going out to a corporate lunch from noon today. Aiieee!

Shish kebab, it was busy. Especially since aside from the above mentioned humdinger I still had to deal with a handful of building payments, letters to go out to various solicitors, redemption statements etc etc. And answer the phone. The normal day to day time critical stuff.

But you know what? These last 2 days have been the best I've had since January. I seem to do better under that kind of pressure. When I walked out to go home it felt like I'd really accomplished something tangible, you know? Job done.

The big ass deal sailed through by 11 a.m this morning.
Sure,I've got some polishing todo as regards the paperwork on Monday, but the clients are happy, the solicitors are content and the Grande Fromage is pleased with his new slave. All is well.

Now if I can just avoid making an ass of myself until the week after next, everything will be shiny.
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