• WBH Swim updates
• Plonked down approx. $1,600 for plane tickets to Ireland. (Finally taking the out of country trip. Wheee!)
• Kept all my day job clients (mostly) happy.
• Began re-designing the US Box envelopes. (I’ve already revamped their order forms and invoices)
• Visited the bookstore. (On orders from Bill. Apparently, I’ve begun stressing so much that I’m becoming hard to live with.)
• Called my Dad.
• Planned what I’ll be taking on the plane trip.

What I need to do tonight:

• Finish coding the 1,000+ items for S4
• Finish redesign work for BubbleBliss (not yet live)
• Finish site updates for DragonFolk

No, I’m not going to finish all this tonight. Hence the stress.

What I need to do later this week

• Submit my passport paperwork
• Finish my taxes
• Figure out a way to stop stressing.

• No, you cannot get an accurate color proof by looking at an the picture on your screen.
• No, we still don’t do production proofs.
• Yes, you really do need to supply us with a PMS color if you want to match a color exactly.
• No, I cannot send you a PMS swatch book. (Do you have any idea how much they cost?)
• If it takes longer than five minutes for me to explain what a PMS color is, you’ll have to figure it out on your own.
• No, I will not “use my own judgement” and pick a color for you. (Unless you are actually in the showroom and we are *both* looking at the swatch book.)
• I don’t care if you don’t think you need to see a proof – you will still get one and I won’t send your job to the printer until I get it returned to me with a signature.
• No, I will not make a one time exception to the color choice or proof policies. Every time I do that it bites me in the butt.
• I’m sorry our sales staff didn’t explain the color, proof, or file requirements to you in enough detail. I’m working on educating them. (it’s a work in progress.)
• Our file requirements are spelled out in detail on the website. They are on the same page you used to upload the files. So, the part that says we don’t accept MS word files AT ALL? Applies to you too.
• Sending me the wrong file three times in a row will, in fact, delay your job getting to press. I do apologize for this. Sending me the correct file the first time will avoid this problem in the future.

I have an urge to come into work with a T-shirt reading “I am a graphics professional. Do not attempt this at home.”

So I decided to wear my hair in a ponytail to work today. This was such a revelation to my co workers that not only did half the office comment on it, a good quarter of the office felt the need to pet. my. head.

Can I say how very strange this was? I have a fairly solid personal space bubble. I don’t like people standing too close to me. The list of people who get to touch me unannounced is incredibly short, but seeing as I have very grabby co-workers (hands, shoulders, arms…) and no desire (normally) to cause a scene, I mostly keep my mouth shut. Not today.

When the third person started stroking my hair in a “oh! what a nice puppy” sort of way. (Because I am not a nice puppy, I am a deeply un-socialized barn cat who will shred your arm up to the shoulder if you even think about petting me.) Then there was the jumping back and yelling to the office at large, “Gah! No touching! Jeezus christ people, I am NOT a PLUSH TOY!”

Granted, I’ve had stranger work situations. Still, it was one of those days…

What are you doing to my beloved english language?
Quote of the day:
“Please add an inset border around the outside.”

Iloathethehumanrace….