Current location:	The Homestead
Current mood:	tired
Current music:	"Bullet in the Head" by Rage Against the Machine
Entry tags:	quality control

Yet Another Painful Object Lesson . . .
tSo, tomorrow is the semesterly intern reception: mounted posters of the work the interns did, a free lunch buffet, lovely parting gifts for the interns, kind words from yours truly about how all of this would never have been possible without the contributions from yak yak yak. So, this morning I went over to pick up the mounted posters of their work, mainly a bunch of book covers for the new books we did this semester plus some older ones that had had kind of generic covers. Anyway, I go over to the print shop and I'm looking at them and I'm like, man, these just don't look right and then I realize that they had been printed from an early version of the PDFs that were later updated. Some labels were missing, some strokes that divided the front and back covers were also missing along with all of the project descriptions. 

Okay, so since the name of the game is to place the blame for this, whose fault might it be?

Well, of course, it's nobody's fault but mine. I burned the wrong goddamn files to the CD that I took to the print shop, then I didn't look at the prints before they were mounted last week and then waited until today--when it was too late to reprint anything--to go pick them up. I mean, that's a serious case of the dumb ass. Thankfully, in the greater scheme of things, this isn't the worst thing that could happen--I had some cool labels and did some touch up work to get everything looking as it should--but, man, it's like Pilgram's/Publisher's Fucking Progress: even at the Gates of Heaven/finished product you see the Doorway to Hell/mistakes your dumbass should have caught.

On another note, another year's nanowrimo winds down. This year I did exponentially less writing than last year. It's like I say: publishers publish, writers write. On an extension of that note, the big interview--weather willing--at the book production company that works primarily with university presses is only two days away. I found out there is a proofreading test in addition to the interview. Proofreading is fine--Jesus X on a crutch, if I can't proofread now I may as well hang it up--but I'm afraid that it's actually a copyediting test so I've spent mucho hours this week trying to memorize the various style/marking convetions. Good luck with all that! Thankfully, I will get to stock up on some CDs at Waterloo so all will not be for naught. (Is that a double negative?) Then, coming up in the near future is reading a bunch of books the DS (department secretary) ordered by Robert Mager about instructional design and a bunch about internet marketing. Yup, kids, that's what you could be looking forward to with an MA in English. Good times!