Ms. Jordan, 31, had been preparing for this moment for 18 months, or maybe for her entire life, but especially throughout this summer of 14-hour workdays filled with assembling computer tables, negotiating staff contracts, collating student binders and soothing parental worries.
Mr. Berenson, then 36, had been consumed with the nomination of federal judges until he was suddenly reassigned to terrorism issues and thrown into intense, 15-hour workdays, filled with competing urgencies and intermittent new alerts.
The time we had together was filled with long workdays and one year later the book was done.
Yet we have come to accept workdays filled with distractions and interruptions as normal; many of us complete our work in the "margins" of our days, early in the morning and late at night, due to the pressing demands on our time and attention.
One day it will provide a burst of energy known only to superheroes, where other times it will shape-shift productive afternoons into unnecessarily anxiety-filled workdays.
Companies can contract with Booster to have its employees' gas tanks filled during the workday.
I love my workday filled with patients, that's perfectly all right, but it's nice when...something else to look forward to breaks things up a bit.
His workdays are filled with time checks: "1 minute 30 seconds, Ernie!" But he was fine for now.
If your workdays are filled with a complex mix of meetings, presentations and so on, though, it might be ideal.
In Mike Nichols's SILKWOOD (1983), Meryl Streep plays the title character, a nuclear plant employee whose workdays are filled with off-color jokes, short lunch breaks and occasional plutonium contamination.
Board-related business, she added, typically fills about four workdays a month per company, but in a crisis one company can take more than half her time.
