Month: August 2012

For a little while this morning, it looked like the room we had booked for our monthly development editor meeting wasn’t going to be available. And since I’m now in charge of running these meetings (with help from my UK counterpart), I had to scramble, just twenty minutes beforehand, to make sure we had somewhere to meet.

This is probably as close to exciting as the day ever got. But the Year of the Meeting will not be denied.

I had to go into the office today, to attend a meeting where I was taking notes and, near the very end, actively participating. (And don’t think that isn’t a slightly weird experience.) This is the first time I’ve been in the office on a Tuesday since the first week of April, and while I can’t necessarily recommend it, it was no worse than any other day in the week.

I still haven’t finished the report I was working on yesterday — and much of last week. I’m now in the hard part, actually trying to make recommendations based on the reviewer suggestions and pulling together what that tells us about the book, the course, the instructor and students, etc. But that’s, y’know, the job.

Still, I do like being able to sleep in a little bit on Tuesdays. And going to work in my pajamas. They get so upset when you try doing that at the office.

I spent nearly all of today pulling together reviews of a psycholinguistics textbook I’m working on. And the thing about psycholinguistics, at least at this level, is that it’s kind of complicated, and I’m left sometimes just trying to figure out if the reviewers were complaining about or praising the same things.

I’m still not done with it, my review analysis. I have to spend a good part of tomorrow morning in a meeting — a meeting at the office, no less, alas — but hopefully I can finish this report before the end of the day.