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So the busy-ness has continued.
Two weeks back I got to take a couple of days off after my second (and final) dental appointment for the year and after completing the proofing of the '90s Designers & Dragons book, but then it was right back to more Designers & Dragons work. This time it was polishing the index for the '80s book. It's very tedious work of the sort that I can do, and that I can do well, but that I don't have a lot of patience for, and that I find exhausting. I spent about 13 hours over it over 9 evening and weekend days and was pretty exhausted when I was done.
I finished up on the index on Sunday (alongside editing 4 DnDclassics histories and polishing a Mechanics & Meeples article and writing the first draft of the first half of an article for WotC) and then yesterday evening I totally collapsed. From the time I got off work I did absolutely nothing worklike. I spent some time with Kimberly, played an iPhone video game for much of the evening, and then sat down and read a long graphic novel (The Infinity Gauntlet) cover-to-cover. It felt like a lost evening, which is a fine thing, and was clearly needed. Whew.
I've been thinking I should have a lost night each week.
Tonight I figured that I'd mostly relax, other than first-drafting a board game review. Except I started to receive the layouts for Designers & Dragons: The '00s to proof. Ah well. At least I'm not getting indexes and layouts at the same time!
So things remain a little too busy, but Designers & Dragons is coming along ... and soon enough my part in it will be done. Still pending (but none of it actually waiting for me yet): 6 more sections of layout for the '00s book (following the 2 I worked through tonight), index for the '90s, and index for the '00s.
Two weeks back I got to take a couple of days off after my second (and final) dental appointment for the year and after completing the proofing of the '90s Designers & Dragons book, but then it was right back to more Designers & Dragons work. This time it was polishing the index for the '80s book. It's very tedious work of the sort that I can do, and that I can do well, but that I don't have a lot of patience for, and that I find exhausting. I spent about 13 hours over it over 9 evening and weekend days and was pretty exhausted when I was done.
I finished up on the index on Sunday (alongside editing 4 DnDclassics histories and polishing a Mechanics & Meeples article and writing the first draft of the first half of an article for WotC) and then yesterday evening I totally collapsed. From the time I got off work I did absolutely nothing worklike. I spent some time with Kimberly, played an iPhone video game for much of the evening, and then sat down and read a long graphic novel (The Infinity Gauntlet) cover-to-cover. It felt like a lost evening, which is a fine thing, and was clearly needed. Whew.
I've been thinking I should have a lost night each week.
Tonight I figured that I'd mostly relax, other than first-drafting a board game review. Except I started to receive the layouts for Designers & Dragons: The '00s to proof. Ah well. At least I'm not getting indexes and layouts at the same time!
So things remain a little too busy, but Designers & Dragons is coming along ... and soon enough my part in it will be done. Still pending (but none of it actually waiting for me yet): 6 more sections of layout for the '00s book (following the 2 I worked through tonight), index for the '90s, and index for the '00s.