Doug Van Pelt

Deadline 2, DVP 1

Deadline's been keeping me busy.
I'm on the South Beach diet now, so that's different. I don't mind it too much. I have healthy snack foods and the meals are good.
But try as I might some days it's hard to hop on the devotion first.

Besides proofing each page of HM, and making corrections alerted to me by our proofreaders (God bless 'em), I am juggling the last-minute ad sales and placing ads that arrive, etc.
Whew! It's a lot of work. I could do nothing but stay on Outlook, reading new emails, replying to ad questions, updating the "runsheet" of ads booked, and placing, double-checking ad artwork, etc. I could do nothing but that all day, but I've also got to do the proofing stuff (which I haven't even gotten a start on since I've come in).

I immediately jumped into email and the routine I described as soon as I got in today (after going by the UPS place to ship some packages out), and have yet to get to the other things. I'll try and do that devotion asap...