Is this someone where you can just pop into his office for a second to ask him to set up the meeting right then?

I used to get really mad when people would do that until I got so busy I started doing it myself. I have the emails....I think about responding but I'm rarely in a situation where I can sit down and process everything the person wants. Thank god for this iPhone, I'll tell you that.

If this is something that has a set deadline, since it is a project, you may need to just be firm with him. I'm not saying yell at him or be disrespectful. But just tell him, this is a requirement to have it done by a certain date.

My boyfriend's adviser is like this. He will complain about not getting his revisions on his thesis. So he sends his thesis EARLY and still wont get revisions back for weeks. He was supposed to graduate A YEAR ago! Don't let this happen to you. I wish he would have put his foot down with this guy a year ago but he keeps letting him drag it on.