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.

We're supposed to get the White Death* just in time for evening rush hour today.

*(And, by "White Death," I mean "I live in Cincinnati, so the rain changing to snow and accumulating less than 1 inch is going to SHUT THE CITY DOWN," and I am not even kidding. Every year when we get snow, people act like this is the Equator and they've never seen solid precipitation before, much less driven in it. It's ridiculous.)

smonster, ugh. Sorry for the crap-ass shit your former roomie is pulling.

Steph, you may live in Cincinnati, but that's DC's reaction to snow.

I took my driver's test in the middle of what was, until the last couple years, the snowiest winter on record in the area. I'm usually amused by freak-outs about anything less than 4 to 6 inches of snow. Unless I have to be on the roads dealing with those freaking out.

Every year when we get snow, people act like this is the Equator and they've never seen solid precipitation before, much less driven in it. It's ridiculous.

At least in Utah we only have to deal with the yearly influx of Californians who are wondering what the white stuff is. Volcano ash? Catastrophic cocaine explosion?

Every year when we get snow, people act like this is the Equator and they've never seen solid precipitation before, much less driven in it. It's ridiculous.

See also Washington State.

My university seems to believe that snow just doesn't exist, even when it's on the ground. There were a bunch of days last year that every school in the county was closed because of the snow, but we still had classes. (I had to miss one of those days because the roads hadn't been cleared yet all the way out to my house.)