Today has been a quieter day than most of the rest of the week. It was supposed to be the day that final approval was given on three issues of the mag. So I stayed up all night to sub one issue and go through the others again (not being anal - the sub who had done issue 2 was dreadful; hadn't picked up on a load of amends I'd made. This was very embarrassing when it went in for first-stage approval.)
I started (having had to wait for the files to come through) at 3am. I finished at 10am, by which time I'd gone through each issue twice (figuring that if I was tired, I should double check myself.) I think it's OK now.
So, having slaved all night and mailed the files to repro as I did them, I waited for the dummy. Called repro guy. No-one there. Called him again. No reply. Called again. Still voicemail. Called his boss (cos by now it was lunchtime and I was getting worried) No reply. Eventually, I call at 3pm.
"How's the dummy coming along."
"It'll all be done by 5pm."
"Why 5pm rather than this morning as we'd agreed?"
"I got really drunk last night and overslept so I only got in at 1pm."
I didn't swear. I think this shows remarkable self control.
On the plus side, this means that I've been able to sleep for a fair bit of the day to catch up, although I still feel a bit spaced. (But I am going to the b3ta party and I'm probably wearing 'the dress') On the minus side, because he got *very* pissed last night, it means that I can't tonight cos all the stuff I was going to do today has had to be put forward to tomorrow. Which is annoying.
Another result of him getting pissed is that I had some spare time I wasn't expecting today - so I tidied the house (the rubbish in the front room was getting to about a foot deep - all clean stuff, paperwork etc rather than food, but still a nightmare to work in.) I realised how weird the flat would look to a stranger when I found, in the course of tidying:
- Two packs of lube
- 5 porn mags
- 3 erotica booklets
- 5 sex books
- 4 sex toys (including the very odd Honey Bee, which is yet another example of weird animal shaped sex toys. It's [surprisingly] shaped like a bee but with antlers so it seems like some kind of bee/snail hybrid. Why???)
- 3 pairs of hold-ups (from the photoshoot)
- One pair of stockings (ditto)
- A silk negligee and matching robe (ditto)
And about a million print-outs of the magazine I'm working on, most of which have (classy) pics of naked people on them.
Feel like a trollop.
[Oh god. The landlady just came in to say Happy Christmas. I chatted away being all smiley and nice. I've just noticed the sex toys on the sofa that I'd put there ready to tidy away. Ah well.]