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Jun. 16th, 2004 06:51 pmThis week, Rob Breszny informed me of the following:
I am not coming in to work tomorrow.
I am not coming in to work tomorrow.
I am NOT coming in to work tomorrow, dammit, if I have to stay here until midnight!
Just got back from a dinner break at Euro Deli (ravioli, salad and a Guru). Read the Globe's tributes to Jack McClelland. (The letters to and from him and various CanLit stars, which unfortunately they don't seem to have put online, seemed very apropos in light of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
elissa_carey's notes on rejection letters today. After finishing Beautiful Losers he told Leonard Cohen something like "My god, you're a genius and I love you -- I just have to decide whether I want to go to jail for the rest of my life for publishing you.") Canadians owe him an enormous amount for pretty much single-handedly ensuring that we have CanLit.
I now have to do the following:
-Polish and attempt to shorten marketing piece. Forward to N. Update IP and the writer about what comes next.
-Finish making changes to today's submission. Email documents to client. Make sure references are up to date. Put hard copies on Julie's desk.
-Finalize instructions to everybody.
Good God, I'm only going to be away for TWO DAYS! And yet.
The big problem is the little projects. They are actually much more time-consuming than big projects because they take place over a much shorter time frame and therefore crowd everything else out. I'm not taking any more of these.
Apparently we hired a new editor, yay! All this means is that D can go back to writing, so it really means we have a new writer... but we'll take it.
Right, onward.
[ETA: In my efforts to take 2 days off I have just worked a 13-hour day. Yep, that makes lots of sense.]
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): "Poets should welcome all opportunities to become befuddled," writes poet Linh Dinh in The American Poetry Review. "To not know what's happening forces one to become more attentive." Whether or not you're a poet, Scorpio, I heartily recommend this approach to you in the coming weeks. The feeling of having wandered off the path will be a sign of grace. To be confused will be a blessing. The only possible way you could miss out on the gifts that life wants to send you is if you act like a know-it-all who's in complete control.I could wish that the universe could have chosen to prove him right in a slightly less direct and painful fashion. However.
I am not coming in to work tomorrow.
I am not coming in to work tomorrow.
I am NOT coming in to work tomorrow, dammit, if I have to stay here until midnight!
Just got back from a dinner break at Euro Deli (ravioli, salad and a Guru). Read the Globe's tributes to Jack McClelland. (The letters to and from him and various CanLit stars, which unfortunately they don't seem to have put online, seemed very apropos in light of
elissa_carey's notes on rejection letters today. After finishing Beautiful Losers he told Leonard Cohen something like "My god, you're a genius and I love you -- I just have to decide whether I want to go to jail for the rest of my life for publishing you.") Canadians owe him an enormous amount for pretty much single-handedly ensuring that we have CanLit.I now have to do the following:
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Good God, I'm only going to be away for TWO DAYS! And yet.
The big problem is the little projects. They are actually much more time-consuming than big projects because they take place over a much shorter time frame and therefore crowd everything else out. I'm not taking any more of these.
Apparently we hired a new editor, yay! All this means is that D can go back to writing, so it really means we have a new writer... but we'll take it.
Right, onward.
[ETA: In my efforts to take 2 days off I have just worked a 13-hour day. Yep, that makes lots of sense.]
