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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[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

They did get chanaleh to do programs before, and hers was much prettier than mine was, as she is artistic and skilled, whereas I am skilled. :)

But I would be very bad at the mentoring thing. I multi-task well, but delegate exceedingly poorly. (I find it interesting to compare chenoameg's efficiencies to mine, as she doesn't have as many timelines as me, but delegates very well. So I might be faster at small projects, but she'd be running a vast empire of minions long after I exploded.)