I'm around, just trying to stay on top of a bunch of work stuff.

Sorry, Steph. Sounds frustrating.

The Trump news is just making me ill. I guess I thought for a moment with all the recent revelations, that the GOP might start to crack in its support for Trump, but it looks like it's just Mitt Romney (who I think is a decent person whose politics have been warped by privilege). Trump will be impeached, of course, but there's no chance he'll be removed from office which means he'll use the justice department and foreign influence to his advantage with no consequence. Combine that with the typhoon of money he'll have behind him and voter suppression efforts, and I'm sure he'll win the election (probably not the vote though). At that point, there will be no checks on him at all.

Steph, any way that you can cc the author on your email to the coordinator, with a warning that the copy that they are receiving is not final, but you wanted to give them a chance for a preliminary review?

Where is everybody?

Uh, getting trapped in Iceland with Lee after all outgoing flights today were cancelled, and not knowing yet when we'll be rebooked? We have a hotel. Once we get there and check in, we will have drinks.

Oh dear! At least it's Friday and not Sunday?

I'm dragging myself through the rest of this workweek. I hate that I often have free Friday afternoons, which should be the time I can finally get writing done, but I am out of brain by Friday afternoon! I should really schedule more easy check-ins on Fridays.

True, but I'd planned to recover from jet lag, do laundry, and restock on groceries this weekend so I could go to work on Monday as a reasonably alert human being.

But I am happy not to be flying in these gale force winds.

Steph, any way that you can cc the author on your email to the coordinator, with a warning that the copy that they are receiving is not final, but you wanted to give them a chance for a preliminary review?

I'm not allowed to do that. I have to wait until the coordinator has reviewed it.

I'm just continuing along in my assumption that if the higher-ups have a problem with it, they can check the dates that articles were turned in/moved along/etc and can see that the bottleneck is with my coordinator. (And if that problem is because he has too much work, I empathize, but even if I could solve that problem, it isn't mine to solve. Literally above my pay grade.)

True, but I'd planned to recover from jet lag, do laundry, and restock on groceries this weekend so I could go to work on Monday as a reasonably alert human being.

Bah, who needs it? (j/k j/k)

Steph, I would advise you to keep the numbers and data handy. Although the higher ups are capable of checking the dates, they probably won't, and will just see the feedback that you are not giving the authors enough time. If it comes up randomly (e.g. in a staff call/meeting), it will make you look great if you can immediately respond "Yes, I've noticed that as well. There is occasionally a lag in the process from the time when the article is ready for its second review and returned for submission to the author. I have some data if you'd like to discuss now, or we can discuss offline."

And if they say now, you say "here's the schedule, here's where the lag is, there's an average of X days of lag . . ." And have the list for every article, so if they say "what happened with the Jones piece?" you have exact dates.

You're not trying to get anyone in trouble, but if they are going to blame someone, it shouldn't be you.

Exciting update: Today I worked, ate lunch, and had a meeting! I'm really very sure I'm allowed to stop working now.