**RANT ALERT**

Don’t fool yourself.

When you’re self-employed, freelancing, working for yourself, there is no such thing as the “9 to 5″. In my case, yesterday saw an 8am to 1am while today saw a 6am to 6pm, so apologies in the down time on the blogging front.

The last two days have been a rollercoaster on a particular project I’m working on. The highs, the lows, uncertainty, testing, bending code, flexing designs, threatening Internet Explorer with violence, doing the same to Firefox about four hours later…

But when you actually hit the milestone you’ve been looking at in the distance for so long, the one that seemed almost out of reach, you might be amazed at the sense of relief that sweeps over you. At least I was anyway.

This particular project has been rather testing - of both my abilities as a designer and my patience as a human being.

Thankfully, it’s Friday and while there is no 9-5, there’s also no office work after 6pm on Friday. That’s my rule.

Of course, I also run a music PR outfit and a theatre company so I’ll be donning another hat at 9am tomorrow

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