Today was a really busy day. I had a great time in California, all things considered, but all those days away from the office came at a pretty lousy time, deadline-wise. I spent all of today just going through the final revisions for one book, that gerontological counseling text I’d hoped to have off my desk before the conference. That took me until just after lunch, after which I started adding up the tally for the books we sold last week in San Jose, and writing my report on what went down at the conference. I still need to finish doing that tomorrow — I have stacks of credit card receipts and cash I need to forward to the right people — but I’m surprised at how much I was actually able to accomplish. It doesn’t sound like a lot on paper, but it was good to get that textbook one step further along the production pipeline, especially since that next step has to be taken by somebody else.
Tomorrow, I need to handle some online resources — both some that have already been developed, some that still need the author’s input — and reply to several e-mails that piled up while I was gone. I think it’s going to be a very busy week, but at least tomorrow is already Wednesday.
And my parents did get my a birthday cake and a few presents tonight, so that was really nice.
Of course, if I’d known just how cold and rainy it was going to be in New York when I got back, I might have found an excuse to stay a couple more days in California. I’m just saying.