The following weekend couldn’t have come a moment too soon. Although my long-awaited meeting with Country Land Foods on Thursday had gone without any major hitches, I always found client presentations both physically and mentally draining. No matter the client, the fifteen-hour workdays leading up to the presentations were bad enough, but being unable to concentrate on anything other than data analysis during my off hours usually drove me bonkers. Generally, whether it came to making last-minute changes to my intensive summation notes, or to the actual feat of standing before “suits” and using colorful data charts and graphs to detail how pathetic or outstanding their multi-million-dollar ad campaigns had worked for them the previous year, I hated the pressure. Toss in a bit of traveling,
