Rising to the Doom

[firstfrost]

So, due to various people being lame or miscommunicating, and some denial on my part, I ended up getting poked by the producer for Patience yesterday afternoon: the program designer had punted or vanished or fallen in a hole and wasn't answering email, so could I do the program? For Thursday? Of course "for Thursday" really means "for Tuesday" because Copytech wants two days turnaround (unless they're hosed and want three, which could be a problem). So now the program is done and to Copytech, and I've taught myself to use InDesign (which is, I have to kind of admit, a better tool for graphic layout than LaTeX is, much as I love LaTeX). But now "program designer" will haunt me until the end of my days, as my attempt to foist the task off on someone else this time was a catastrophic failure.

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Re: Did I mean what you think I meant?

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's more what I meant. (After pondering) I was bragging, but bragging is not polite, so I carefully camouflaged my bragging with exasperation (because I was kind of exasperated, but that's annoyed-in-good-fun rather than actual annoyance). But my camouflage was too good, so people gave me helpful advice on how to avoid exasperation in the future. :)

(I can usually sort between "stuff I don't want to do" and "stuff I don't mind doing" and "stuff I want to do"; being Productive often pushes things up one class.)