Day Planner

Every in-coming student gets a day planner provided by the university. Guess who gets to edit it before it runs to press? The initials ED really are a plague sometimes. At any rate, I&#039ve been working on this pretty heavily the past week (between students coming in and phone-calling potential students) and today it has been the only thing I&#039ve done (besides advise a student for the fall and spill tea on Brad&#039s microwave). My brain is starting to ache because after I went through it all once, I went through it again and again, and then after that I went through it with copies of three other people&#039s revisions. Now, mind you, I&#039m sure I&#039m just a perfectionist, but if someone were to hand you a copy of something and say &#034Edit this,&#034 would you just summarily glance over it, change a few phone numbers in the first ten pages then not bother checking the rest? It&#039s lazy! I&#039ve been going through this with a fine-toothed comb and am finding mistakes which were in here leftover from last year! Pfft. I dunno, maybe I am just a perfectionist and I shouldn&#039t care too much about the fact that four or five other people missed some pretty basic things, but I can&#039t help it. Why put out a crap product when I know I can improve it and make it better? I guess it&#039s like the husband and his web page. Sure, he could probably get away with doing things in a slip-shod manner, but he doesn&#039t want that. He wants to make his code as good as he can make it because it matters to him what it&#039s like. <Sigh> I&#039m on lunch now, so I&#039m taking a break from the planner. I guess that&#039s what I&#039ll be doing this afternoon though, blech. I really am looking forward to the end of this semester in one way or another.

One thought on “Day Planner

  1. Jamie

    Yeah, you're probably more anal than most ;-P:
    No one truly appreciates a perfectionist. But you porbably wouldn't feel satisfied if you didn't give something your all. 🙂

    Woo hoo to end of semester!

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