Well, darn. I was participating in an exercise challenge at work - to get at least three ten-minute periods of physical activity each day for six weeks. Active housework like vacuuming counted (I got some mileage from shoveling). I was hoping that after getting into the habit, it would be easy and automatic to keep it up. It ended Saturday (I was on track the whole 6 weeks), and yesterday, all I did was laundry. That's nothing to sneeze at, hauling the load down two flights of stairs, then hauling the wet load up one flight and hanging it on the drying racks - I figure, it counts, but as only one 10-minute slot. Well, today, at work, I will get at least 20 (doing range of motion exercises with a couple of people, plus they make laps around the house, and if I walk with them, that could add up to more). On the other hand, the local nature center is hosting a 5k run/1k walk in April, and I'm thinking about participating in the walk. I suppose I had better check if it is on a weekend that I'm working.

You were on the magic box where the people live, smonster? How fun. Glad to hear it went well!

I am vindicated (yet still bitter at losing half my day Thursday)!

The goddamn printer told Big!Boss that the overprint error was their fault. Damn right, it was.

The problem is that I *needed* that wasted time on Thursday to get the journal ready to go out today. Can't meet a deadline if you keep sucking up my time on things other than the journal whose deadline is looooooming.

So I stayed until 6 on Thursday and came in at 7:45 this morning (I normally come in at 9). It'll get out today, but I will be Twitchy McBugeye by the time it does. (Actually, I already am. My co-workers told me I can't have any more caffeine.)

I could say I'm All About The Company, but really I just like being a martyr.

Good on the Printer, Steph. Badbadbad on them for wasting your time, making you argue the obvious, and running with world-is-flat statements.

Can you take time off at the end of the day? Big!Boss needs to hook you up with a mani/pedi gift cert somewhere.

Andi, darn? When I read your post all I could think was, you kicked butt! I'm missing what feels wrong to you.

I'm actually taking inspiration from your efforts to make up for my big calorie day yesterday.

Yay teevee smonster. Can't wait to see it.

Can you take time off at the end of the day?

I'll probably leave early, assuming the journal gets out on time, which is never a guarantee. Five people look over the final paginated proofs, and sometimes they just let them sit on their desk until 3:30, at which point I still have to correct errors, add in house ads to fill white space (I can't do that ahead of time, because 1 of the 5 people who review the proofs is the person who selects the ads), output to postscript and then PDF, and FTP them to the printer. And THEN I go back and make individual PDFs of each article for our website, and FTP those to the webhost.

I have asked, explained, cajoled, demanded, and begged that people get these proofs back to me quickly. After 16 years, I don't think they're going to start respecting my time now.

Andi, darn? When I read your post all I could think was, you kicked butt! I'm missing what feels wrong to you.

I was hoping the challenge would create a habit for me; it didn't. So now I have to look for other external motivation to keep up with the not completely sedentary thing.

I'll probably leave early, assuming the journal gets out on time, which is never a guarantee.

I hope you do get to leave early.

I am Twitchy McBugeye von ComfortFood most of the time. And I wonder why I've gained so much weight.

Right now, one journal is in press three weeks late because of the EiC who took four months to get me a one-page editorial we couldn't run without (not the same guy as the Guest EiC who took eight months to get me his editorial and table of contents, and turned out he had two papers listed that he'd never sent me or even told me about - because, oh, they aren't finalized yet, is that a problem? YES it's a problem, the deadline was FOUR MONTHS AGO). The other journal is going into press in three days and I have three papers outstanding because the authors, as usual, are dawdling and keep making changes. One author screamed at me this morning because his paper was on the website without his last changes and why did I tell him the changes had been made? well, because after two rounds of changes already, I got your last changes after the posting deadline, so yes they've been made and no they may not show up for another week. Also, bite me. I'm bending the rules severely for you just to get those last changes in your paper at all, so try being nice to me, asshole. And the next issue of that journal is coming up hard on its deadline and I haven't even begun editing it yet, because of the three OTHER journals that I've been helping out with because their editors are just so overwhelmed.

*breathe* Okay. Fuckers. I spent most of last year working 14-16 hour days; I'm damned if I'm going to do that again.

And THEN I go back and make individual PDFs of each article for our website, and FTP those to the webhost.

Oh, crap, if I had to do that TOO I'd totally lose my shit. At least someone else does that, even if he is an arrogant slack-off fucker who blames his frequent screw-ups on other people.