Jeepers - when we did it in-house I'd have two or three WEEKS to copyedit, lay out, do the pre-press work, and get it uploaded to the printer.

Right-o, Toddson. That's where we're headed.

I'm just ... amazed ... that they can say they need two months to edit, copyedit (badly), fact check, etc., before it goes to production. And this is much smaller than the version I did pretty much by myself. Oh, and I also dealt with the ads - kept track of what was sold, the size, contact, etc. There was the awful night I was in the office until 11:00 because the printer had switched our job to another branch and rather than downloading the image files from the company's FTP site (it'd take too long, since they were in a differnt office) so I had to zip and e-mail every single image.

I went through and tried to finish taxes, but I forgot that if I pay by credit card there's a 3% fee, so now I'm pouting at having to pony up any additional jack. I suspect I'll go back in and finish it that way anyway, but first I need to sulk.

And maybe go make the company deposit.

What are people doing this weekend?

We are headed to Minneapolis. Olivia is going to a junior roller derby camp with the Minnesota Roller Girls and Owen is going to the Lego store in the Mall of America.

Oh my god, you really DO work for my company. How does the magic "they will be required" even WORK? Just saying it doesn't make it possible.

Hah! My boss is all about "we need to focus on the strategic stuff and jettison the low value tasks". Which, okay, but someone still needs to DO those things or the project doesn't get done. And most of the kind of roles who could do them have been cut over the past few years (and even now, they're talking about letting go our one remaining "document specialist" i.e., Word and Excel format and cleanup person.

Cashmere, you and your whole family are rock stars. That is all.

I have no couches!

And am now sitting on a stool. I may not have thought this plan through entirely.

Do you have a bed? as long as you have someplace to sleep, it'll be OK.

Not really. All the stuff piled on the couches (one of them opened up for storage and was my linen closet) is now on the bed. This means I will have to Do Something About It.

t gives dog the stink-eye as she wanders from one of her beds to another

At least someone's comfy.

My boss is all about "we need to focus on the strategic stuff and jettison the low value tasks".

Hah. I am working on an RFP for Brazil. Guess who is responsible for leading my boss down the right path to answer the questions and portray us in the best possible light? Guess who is responsible for creating the content? Guess who is responsible for editing the content? Guess who is responsible for creating the charts and tables and spreadsheets based on the content? Yeah.

Now guess who is responsible for creating a proposal library? All because I opened my big fat mouth. I was *shocked* that there's no central repository. When my 10-page half-assed response to an RFI for Pennsylvania gets sent to everyone in the office as an example of perfection, and how things should be done from this point forward, you know I need a new job.

Needless to say I've significantly brushed up on my proposal management skills.

edit: but my spelling skills have gone to shit.