{"id":21,"date":"2005-02-17T23:02:18","date_gmt":"2005-02-18T03:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/2005\/02\/17\/drowning\/"},"modified":"2006-04-29T16:28:02","modified_gmt":"2006-04-29T23:28:02","slug":"drowning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/2005\/02\/17\/drowning\/","title":{"rendered":"Drowning&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"a58\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the hardest things about being an associate, at least in a big firm, is gauging and juggling your workload.\u00a0 One minute you&#8217;re happily swimming along with a relatively manageable load.\u00a0 Nothing due for at least a week, a couple of projects on the backburner, and you&#8217;re heading home\u00a0at 7:00 every day (and yes, it&#8217;s an odd, odd world when leaving at 7:00\u00a0prompts twinges of guilt and entails sneaking past all the other people still working).\u00a0 Suddenly, everything picks up all at once and you&#8217;re drowning in a relentless deluge of paperwork,\u00a0fighting the currents and\u00a0wondering if you&#8217;ll ever make it upstream to spawn.\u00a0\u00a0(Sorry, got caught up in the metaphor.)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been one of those fighting the currents week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I hope everyone else&#8217;s week has been\u00a0better.\u00a0 I&#8217;m heading home to SJ for a much needed break tomorrow&#8230;although I&#8217;ll be bringing some work home with me&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the hardest things about being an associate, at least in a big firm, is gauging and juggling your workload.\u00a0 One minute you&#8217;re happily swimming along with a relatively manageable load.\u00a0 Nothing due for at least a week, a couple of projects on the backburner, and you&#8217;re heading home\u00a0at 7:00 every day (and yes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lawyering"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}