Work work work PLAY!

[electricland]

This week, Rob Breszny informed me of the following:

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:
- 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.]

Comments

[mindrobber.livejournal.com]

Go get 'em Your Vikingness! Take no prisoners!

*ahem*

*calms down*

Well then. Good luck.

[electricland.livejournal.com]

YEAH!

*ahem*

*calms down too*

Thank you.

[elissa-carey.livejournal.com]

Sounds like editors are badly needed...? Good, then, that you have one now. :)

[electricland.livejournal.com]

Sounds like editors are badly needed...?

YES!

*sob*

I mean, they have me, but I feel like a very very tiny little Dutch boy. And 2.5 others, but they are all swamped too.

And thanks. ;)

[gurudata.livejournal.com]

Hiho,

(ravioli, salad and a Guru)

Is that Guru stuff good? What's it taste like? Every time I see it in Montreal I think I should try it (it IS my namesake, after all!), but I've never gotten the chance...

Cu,
Andrew

[electricland.livejournal.com]

Uh... It's sort of like less fizzy, dense Coke. I believe the majority of its effects come from lots 'n' lots of caffeine.

I only drink the stuff once in a blue moon, but it's quite tolerable. If I remember, I'll bring some to Toronto Trek -- it would go down well, I think. ;)

[electricland.livejournal.com]

...whoops, my bad. No caffeine. (http://www.montrealmirror.com/ARCHIVES/1999/081999/cover.html)

[pixel12.livejournal.com]

Small projects do indeed take up more time, seemingly. I can make 5 full brekkies in the time it takes me to make one fruit salad.

I can yell and swear in three languages and four dialects* when I try to find the frelling fruit the frelling waitresses nibble on when they feel like it. And don't replace. Ever.

Anyways, have a wonderful weekend, 'lectric. We're partway through and it's a beaut.

*I don't normally count dialects, but since each have such a unique way of stating displeasure, it does count when yelling. I swear in Canadian English, Quebecois French and Korean plus Aussie, Brit, Irish, and American. Yes. They are all different ;-)

[electricland.livejournal.com]

Thank you! It was lovely! I bonded with your family dog. She is a sweetie (and I say this as one who doesn't think of herself as a fan of the breed). She spent quite a lot of time lying on my feet; it was very soothing.

[pixel12.livejournal.com]

Aw. I miss the AnnieDawg. Lucky, our pub dog is a suck (probably because I haved the keys to the kitchen). But not nearly so active ;-)