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Article: When holiday pressure builds, I burst into song.(Business)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- December 23, 2006
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Byline: Erica Heath
I'm coming in for a landing, and not a moment too soon. I suffer from a lifelong, incurable addiction to deadlines that renders me immobile until the 11th hour. I've learned to compensate at work. The first information I seek about any project or assignment is when it's needed. I refuse to accept "whenever" as a due date. To a deadline junkie, "whenever" is exactly the same as "never."
The illness really kicks in at holiday time. Right after Thanksgiving, I ponder all my looming personal obligations and work projects that I breezily promised by year- end and conclude that I have plenty of time to get everything done. This past week has therefore ...