Day Planner
Posted on: 2005-05-02 12:38:51, by Erando

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've 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've done (besides advise a student for the fall and spill tea on Brad's 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's revisions. Now, mind you, I'm sure I'm just a perfectionist, but if someone were to hand you a copy of something and say "Edit this," would you just summarily glance over it, change a few phone numbers in the first ten pages then not bother checking the rest? It's lazy! I've 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't care too much about the fact that four or five other people missed some pretty basic things, but I can't help it. Why put out a crap product when I know I can improve it and make it better? I guess it's like the husband and his web page. Sure, he could probably get away with doing things in a slip-shod manner, but he doesn't want that. He wants to make his code as good as he can make it because it matters to him what it's like. !ltSigh!gt I'm on lunch now, so I'm taking a break from the planner. I guess that's what I'll be doing this afternoon though, blech. I really am looking forward to the end of this semester in one way or another.

Yeah, you're probably more anal than most ;-P
Posted: 2005-05-02 22:12:31, by Jamie

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!