I'll send you a 90 minute cassette I have featuring party chatter, punch bowl noises, and ukulele chords.  At 5 PM on deadline days, just push play on the office's stereo, lock the door, and go home.

At 01:07 PM 3/9/2006, you wrote:
>And now for the REAL change-in-business-practices question: How many of you (Eastern time zone folks) are extending your office hours to 8 pm?
>We have heard from some of the more odious  of our faculty that if the deadline is 8 pm, then, by God, they have until 7:59 pm to get us the proposal.  Let's not get into the lines-in-the-sand discussion, but I am really curious as to how folks are going to deal with this.*
>
>Why aren't we hearing howls of outrage from folks on the west coast who are now at a three-hour disadvantage?
>Susan
>
>*My solution is to retire as soon as possible!
>
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>Susan B. Burke
>Associate Director
>NYU Office of Sponsored Programs
>15 Washington Place, 1-H
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