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alectoperdita) wrote2006-04-15 12:56 pm
alectoperdita) wrote2006-04-15 12:56 pm
GIP and bitching!
Icons made from the latest Tsubasa chapter, which I hadn't had a chance to gush about yet. I adore the Fai angst and the confrontation. It just fulfills that fangirl need that usually drives people to write fanfics instead. Sadly school work and sporadic depressive episodes is taking much out of me. And then...there's this also.
I wish people wouldn't make it so unnecessarily difficult for me. >.< Whatever happened to the sanctity of deadlines? I get two more articles for copy editing in my email today (deadline was yesterday) and I think none of them are even second/final drafts. Someone that volunteered to help with copy editing emails me and asks if she could edit any other article but the one I assigned to her. Why? Because she doesn't feel comfortable editing something written by someone she knows. WTF? When do personal feelings and relationships come into play here? We're editing for grammar and style, not content since the section editors already did that. I would have told her no and to suck it up (albeit in a more polite manner), but I got those two articles last minute. Fine, she wants to switch, I'll switch her. She's just lucky that one of the two I received has approximately the same word count as the one I originally assigned her. But now I also have to assign that article and the other new one to someone else. *sobs* My math was so balanced before, every editor had about the same number of words to edit. Stop making me do math!
Why are you all making this hard for me? The publication deadline is the end of next week.
Do I honestly want to do this mad rush next year? No. But then again, this wouldn't be happening if we had stricter and earlier deadlines. *makes note to say that to the new editor-in-chief when we elect him/her*
If anyone sends me anything else for editing, I will kill something.
I wish people wouldn't make it so unnecessarily difficult for me. >.< Whatever happened to the sanctity of deadlines? I get two more articles for copy editing in my email today (deadline was yesterday) and I think none of them are even second/final drafts. Someone that volunteered to help with copy editing emails me and asks if she could edit any other article but the one I assigned to her. Why? Because she doesn't feel comfortable editing something written by someone she knows. WTF? When do personal feelings and relationships come into play here? We're editing for grammar and style, not content since the section editors already did that. I would have told her no and to suck it up (albeit in a more polite manner), but I got those two articles last minute. Fine, she wants to switch, I'll switch her. She's just lucky that one of the two I received has approximately the same word count as the one I originally assigned her. But now I also have to assign that article and the other new one to someone else. *sobs* My math was so balanced before, every editor had about the same number of words to edit. Stop making me do math!
Why are you all making this hard for me? The publication deadline is the end of next week.
Do I honestly want to do this mad rush next year? No. But then again, this wouldn't be happening if we had stricter and earlier deadlines. *makes note to say that to the new editor-in-chief when we elect him/her*
If anyone sends me anything else for editing, I will kill something.