No strange burgers today, just an unseasonably warm day — the first day of fall, no less! — and more work than I expected when I went into work today. I’ve got this huge project, including lots of photo research and instructor reviews and online materials, that dropped in my lap yesterday evening right before I left for the day. I mean, I sort of knew it was coming, since the book is scheduled to publish next summer, but it involves a lot of things (like the photo research) that I really haven’t done to this extent before. Just trying to figure out some of the logistics is going to be interesting work in and of itself.
Otherwise, it was a pretty quiet day. It rained this evening, and it’s only supposed to be around 80° tomorrow, so that’s nice. (Seriously, first day of autumn is the hottest day in a couple of weeks. You have to admire Mother Nature’s sense of irony. Or fear the global warming that will kill us all…)
And, as I wrote earlier on Twitter, if you’d told me on Monday that by Wednesday the week would be almost half over, I wouldn’t have believed you. Happy and a little amazed that tomorrow is Thursday already.
Oh, dear…the dreaded giant project. I’ve just finished one up and I’m worried that another is about to go ker-splat on my head.
I do like the istockphoto for royalty free pictures – I’ve used them before, and though the credit system is a bit weird, they’ve got a fairly wide range of images. And the pricing isn’t all that bad, either. I do believe they’re a Calgary-based business – or they were, originally.
Their prices and selection do seem good, and at least one other person recommended them. It’s a question, too, of figuring out their licenses and the logistics of payment, since these will be interior images (more than 50 at my current count) with a set, but expandable, print run, to be sold worldwide. And I’m not personally paying for them. Unless, maybe, it’s to be reimbursed later.
I’m starting to see why this kind of work more is often farmed out to freelancers.
Kerfuffles, ker-splat…I’m sensing a pattern here… 🙂