Before you go Syndrome

I wonder if this has been diagnosed as a medical condition or at the very least the subject of a thesis on time management, whereby everyone else wants to make your date for going away into their deadline to get some project or other done involving you.  I am now beginning to think that the best way forward is to put about a bogus date.  Not sure how well this would work as the inevitable build up would occur a bit earlier around the false date.  It may achieve a plateau effect where their stuff drops off but your immediate tasks take over, typing blog entries included.