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Oh my god, you guys, I am so tired.

My life is a little bit insane right now, and it is only going to get more insane. I just finished editing a 370 page manuscript. This manuscript was very, very late, and came in right before Rosh Hashana and needed to get edited, like, yesterday.

On Wednesday, another super-late 385-page manuscript came in. On Thursday, the second draft of a third super late, 435-page manuscript came in. Also, MS#2 is the third in a trilogy, and I have been procrastinating reading #2, because I had a billion other things to do, so I am also now frantically reading the second book in the trilogy so I can edit the third.

Not to mention a less long, less urgent manuscript that came in a couple of months ago that I was just about to start working on and then these three whoppers came in. Also not to mention catalog copy for Fall 09 which is due on Tuesday and I haven’t even started. Also not to mention that I’m out on Wednesday afternoon and Thursday for Yom Kippur, and Friday for Community Outreach Day.

I just finished editing MS#1. I stayed up late last night and worked on it on the train. I had promised Editor D I would get it to him before the weekend. AND I DID. I fall over now.

On the bright side, my friend Ariel bought me a cheer-up cupcake from Crumbs. It is huge, and it has lots of icing and rainbow sprinkles. It is delicious. I <3 Ariel.

That is my editorial workload. There is another major workload that is about to collapse on my head, and I seriously am not sleeping again until January. But that is for another post, and another time. I am stressed out enough for right now.

Date: 2008-10-03 07:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] strange-selkie.livejournal.com
Does your department have an intern qualified to take some of that off your shoulders and maybe ease the workflow? One of the perks of my Shiny New Pubs Job is an intern to do a first pass and flag stuff with post-its if I can legitimately prove busyness.

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