One of the benefits of having a minimal break over Christmas is that I've got way less of the 'easing back into work' feeling than a lot of people (well, I hardly stopped for long enough to notice the break, particularly given that I was sleeping or drunk for the couple of days I was off).
However, other people easing back into work can be an issue where deadlines are concerned.
Today was the deadline for the first news stand issue of the mag. The designer started on it at 1am yesterday, despite constant requests to start earlier. As a result, I was still there answering his questions at 9am. Which sucked.
However, all the pages went off to repro-boy by morning (you remember him from before Christmas? The one who had a hangover so lost us half a day when we were supposed to go to press, then lost us another day by not turning up to work. Of course, he could have been ill on Christmas Eve but he sounded fine on the phone the day before.) He got all the pages through and then, well, god knows. There seems to be no sense of urgency at that end. Which really made pulling another all-nighter worth it.
On the plus side, the endless waiting around means that I've got all the articles I'm writing for the first four issues done (only about 4,000 words) On the minus side, it's too late for me to get to the shops, which is particularly annoying cos my only 2003 diary is a freebie 'Horoscope Diary' that came with a magazine and I don't really fancy the idea of carrying it around.
Still, at least the pubs are open.
Posted by emilyd at December 30, 2002 05:28 PM