One Down

Remember that job I've been working weekends on all summer?  The one that has been dogging me for four years?  That one?  Sent the final report to the foundation yesterday.  Five pages.  That's 1.25 pages per year.

Talk about summarizing.

Anyway.  Where's my martini?

Next project lining up for the smackdown?  The languishing small consulting job.  And then that will be it for overemployment.  And then all we'll have to worry about is the house renovation and the family crisis.

Noooo prob.

Comments

[Thorny]

YAY CATE!! That's awesome!

(Though five pages? I bet that felt more than a little anticlimactic, eh?)

Good luck knocking the stuffing out of that languishing small job now!

[LauraJ]

I am hoping the family crisis is the school-related one?

Congratulations! How long does it work out per _word_?

[Kate]

As my PI is always saying..."I would have made it shorter if I'd only had the time".

[Justine]

Yippe for you! One martini, splurge and have 2 - just this once ok. Good luck with the last project and the rest of it as well.

[Marcy, Not Blogless]

YaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaY!! Whew!

[Rachel H]

Congratulations! A happy day indeed.

[Lisa]

Martinis ... right here baby! Sounds like you are handling everything quite appropriately.

[Norma]

*relief* (sort of) Gah, when I hear about YOUR life, it makes mine seem so very sedate. Thank you for that. It's a tough job, but somebody has to do it. (you may punch me now, if you want)

Keep your chin up -- that martini should help!

[Carole]

That must be such a load off you, Cate. Woo and also Hoo.
What kind of martini do you like? I'll be right over.

[maryse]

congratulations!

[Manise]

Yahoo! Congratulations, Cate. It'll be nice to be just regularly employed- hang in there.

[Martha]

Congratulations! Just think of all the time you'll have on you hands when you only have one job!

[Kathy]

That's great news. Come on over -- I'll shake up a pomegranite martini for you :-)

[The Feminist Mafia]

Congrats!!!

[Beth S.]

Your martini is on me, at Rhinebeck (I'll see you there, right? ;-)

[kmkat]

Congratulations!

[Risa]

YAY!!! Congratulations! Must be nice to finally get that one over with. Mmmm martini.

[Kat with a K]

Yay!!!!!

[Lee Ann]

Phew. Or as they say up here, Phiou.

I'm trying to follow your lead but it ain't over yet...

[--Deb]

It'll be a snap!

[Lucia]

Congrats! (They're the 5 densest pages ever written, I bet.)

[Lucia]

(Oops. I meant dense, as in every word staggering under the weight and drowning in the depth of its meaning, not dense, as in dumb.)

[Jenny]

Congratulations! But I'm sure it took that many years to develop a microscopic 3-point flyspeck font to convey all that information in just five pages...

[Sneaksleep]

So does this mean that next time we see you, you'll actually be standing upright, no longer hunched over under the burden? Soooo happy for you that you can finally cross that one off your list!

[Heidi]

That first paragraph sounds so familiar (though in my case, just months, not years)--so many hours of work boiled down to a couple of pages of analysis and a table or two. Anticlimactic to say the least, but congratulations for finishing!

And thank you so much for all of the pregnancy support--my e-mail is not so trustworthy, so I haven't gotten a chance to thank you! Please, keep the advice a-coming!