My editor-in-chief is starting to really make me angry. We are trying to get our latest issue to the printer, so I understand that it's pretty stressful for him (especially since the printing is already delayed). However, that's really no excuse for him to take it out on me.

I had a few weird articles assigned to me last semester. Actually, they weren't articles; they were speeches and panel discussions. That meant a great deal of extra work, and, in the case of the panel discussion, hassle as I try to get responses from 8 people around the country.

But no matter which way you slice it, I'm still just a law student, and some of these people are among the top legal minds in the country. I'm not going to be curt and disrespectful even if they miss my deadlines (and thereby delay me).

We have a few outstanding issues from these two "articles"; we're missing a biography from one (and my contact has not responded to my pleas for the biography) and 2 publication permissions from the other. Again--not something that I can control.

Then, I get an email demanding that I update footnote references* in one of the speech and make sure there are no further track changes in the document and return it to the EIC. Well, I'd be happy to do so, except for the fact that a) the footnote references ARE updated, and b) there are no further tracked changes in the document.

So I didn't know what to tell him. Short of "open your eyes, dimwit, because I've ALREADY done all that" I'm stumped.



*Keep in mind that I actually follow directions and hyperlink footnote references in the document. If things are changed, all it takes is ctl+all and F9 to update them...

Tags: journal, rants, school

I'm going to bed now. In the past 24 hours I have:

*finished recoding 130+ variables for my thesis (very very early this morning)
*did the recycling
*gone to work
*completed admin reading and then actually paid attention in class
*edited TWO journal articles
*got a flu shot
*marveled at a Metro employee with a gigantic gut who insisted on standing and blocking half of the doorway of a train
*run errands to CVS and Safeway
*put up laundry from Sunday that had been drying
*completed my thesis analysis plan, complete with table shells, outlines of background sections, and a few other minor things
*warmed and eaten dinner
*fended off countless attempts by my computer to restart due to updates
*given myself permission to relax and watch Project Runway's season premiere
*deleted a spam LJ comment
*written this blog entry

Now if I have 3 more days as productive as this one, I should be in excellent shape to sit back and do very little over Thanksgiving!

But to bed I go.

Tags: journal, schedule, school