I have found a solution. When people ask you what's going on, you claim ignorance, and wonder out loud how you ended in charge of X. This works wonderfully in slowing down the flow of more things to do. I still somehow seem to have been deemed responsible, despite my best efforts...

I'm waiting for 14641 , the next number in the Fibbonacci sequence. Especially as the one after, 15,101,051 is some way off.