bounding freely upwards

It's quite noticeably how much more productive yet restful the workday can be when it is unimpeded by the presence of a direct line manager. Even with half the morning occupied by a meeting in which I was constantly frowning in concentration rather than irritation and a full-sized lunchwalk to expose the remaining two frames of film-allocation on the work photo club film experiment I felt I achieved quite a bit. There's probably a simple explanation for it, such as not having any additional work assigned or not having to waste time in conversations which are needlessly tiring due to having to attempt to plot where they're headed with regard to the movement of goalposts or sneaky delivery of new "can you quickly do this?" tasklets (of which I now suspect him to be the most significant source).

He's off for the first couple of days next week, too.