A busy week. Deadlines, deadlines, deadlines. What an awful word: deadline. You're dead if you cross that line. When you start out, it's just like oh, that's my deadline, la-dee-da-dee. It has become such a common term that no one thinks--wait a second, that's DOOMSDAY. That's the day I die, if I don't account for my time properly.

So the next time someone gives you a "deadline", ask him/her to give it to you straight--is that when it's due, or is that when you die if it isn't in.