I was at the airport at 530am. Again. Have to do it again on Monday. It's times like this I am not so fond of my job.

Thank you, Pix.

I was at the airport at 530am.

Early wakeups - bah! At least I only had to get up at 5:30.

Shir, that's interesting. I was sure it was a legal thing that was going to be applied to all restaurants. Is it possible that that was being proposed? Glad to hear it's not legal, anyway!

Is it possible that that was being proposed?

That's a possibility, yes. However, while religion here isn't separated from state, we're still far from things like this law to become a reality (honestly, I will leave Israel before craziness like that will occur. Enough is enough).

I'm at work, but I'll elaborate later. There's sort of a wacky Israeli explanation for this (well, at least IMHO).

Yeah last time it was. But this time - two pages maybe three. Don't expect it to be 20 minutes. But with only three pages (at most) affected expect it to be less than a day.

Is your manuscript the only thing they're working on? Maybe they have other stuff and can't immediately jump to work on your project.

All I can say is, that my deadline for the index was based on the Galleys being delivered with minor errors. So at this point they better not expect an index by the 15th!

Also, yeah I do expect fixing screwups to be a priority. The thing is I specified that I'd composed this so that tables had to be placed exactly between the paragraphs I said within the text. If they had told me "we can't do that" I would have rethought it and done some major edits on the text and tables.

I think what is stressing me out is that their replies ignore the part where I say, "you understand that the index won't be delivered under original deadline". If they would just reply and say "yeah we understand that since our deliverable was late, yours will be too", I'd just relax and figure we are all human. But right now I'm worrried that only they are human and that they expect their error to be my problem that I'm magically supposed to deliver an index in four days.

Also, yeah I do expect fixing screwups to be a priority.

I gotta tell you, as someone who does layout/design for a living, it doesn't work that way. If they have other jobs they're working on, they're going to have things prioritized according to their own workflow, not just for one client.

If, of course, you're working with someone who doesn't have any other projects, then their slowness is ridiculous.

I'm worrried that only they are human and that they expect their error to be my problem that I'm magically supposed to deliver an index in four days.

What would be the negative consequence of you giving them the index after the 15th? Would they stop working on your manuscript altogether? Do they charge you more? Do they bump your project way down in the priority list?

They can't physically force you to produce the index by the 15th, unless they are in a room with you. We give authors deadlines every day, and they cheerfully ignore them and turn shit in late all the time. And we mutter imprecations about them, and then we just finish the manuscript.

Honestly, I think you need to chill. t edit I think you need to chill because you're causing yourself unnecessary stress about this.

We have had our first snow of 2012. I'm pleased that it is not on a day where I actually have to be anywhere or do anything.