We have these meetings every month — have I mentioned that this is the Year of the Meeting? — where we talk about our plans for our biggest textbooks. And it falls to the development editors to take notes at these meetings, presumably because we work exclusively on the bigger textbooks and know how to do things like listen to other people and type. We do this on a rotating basis, among the entire group, and the first meeting I was scheduled to sit in on was cancelled. So I was very politely asked the other day if I could sit in for the tail end of today’s meeting, because it was likely to run past noon, and the DE who was taking notes was in the UK and would probably like to go home at some point.
I was happy to help, not that I had any legitimate reason to refuse. Of course, the next one of these I have to do before the end of the year is on a Tuesday again…
Beyond that, just a pretty ordinary Thursday. More reviewers, more It, big storm apparently on the way. (It got very dark and cloudy here very suddenly, and it’s raining some, but the world has not yet ended, as I think was predicted.