Month: May 2011

Random 10 5-27-11

Last week. This week:

  1. “You Know I’m No Good” by Amy Winehouse
    You tear men down like Roger Moore
  2. “Pot Kettle Black” by Tilly and the Wall
    The trash washes up to shore even in this land-locked place
  3. “What Good Am I Without You” by Marvin Gaye w/ Kim Weston
    What good is a doctor if he can’t cure the pain?
  4. “The Downeaster Alexa” by Billy Joel, guessed by Clayton
    We took on diesel back in Montauk yesterday
  5. “Hurt” by Nine Inch Nails, guessed by Kim
    Everyone I know goes away in the end
  6. “Guttermouth” by Bree Sharp
    She’s got tons of DNA, but all they see is T & A
  7. “Rock ‘N Me” by Steve Miller Band, guessed by Clayton
    But it just keeps gettin’ tougher every day
  8. “I Wanna Be Sedated” by the Ramones, guessed by Kim
    Hurry hurry hurry before I go insane
  9. “Dead Man’s Party” by Oingo Boingo
    I was hit by something last night in my sleep
  10. “Square One” by Tom Petty, almost guessed by Kim
    You can’t say what you don’t know

Good luck!

Working Thursday

Today started out not particularly busy, what with my having handed over the manuscript I’ve been working on since Friday and moved it off of my desk. But then this thing that I’ve been waiting to happen, a fix of a book record in our system that would allow me build the record for a new edition of the book (and two other accompanying books), happened. And so I had to build the records for those, probably getting half of the data entry and tabs I need to select wrong, while I pulled information from the proposal and reviews, building a proposal I can share with the group, and a profit and loss estimate, and all the things that need to be done before we can actually offer a contract. Plus, there were a few other projects that needed tending to, and a brand new one to add to the mix.

I’m unlikely to finish any of it tomorrow, not least of all because the office is closing early for the long weekend. But hopefully I can make a sizable dent in it and have a contract out to the author before the middle of June.

By which point that other book record that needs to be fixed for the same reason, the one that’s been keeping me from working on it, will be fixed, and I’ll have to start working on that as well.

Making books isn’t always fun.

Workaday Wednesday

A busy, but productive day at work, and a day of unexpected sun and good weather. Except for a very delayed subway connection this morning and an uncomfortably crowded car when it arrived, today was pretty much just your average, busy Wednesday.