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Does anybody actually miss when I updated 3 times a day?

So, what's been up with me these days.

Nothing! I'm working. It's boring. The most interesting thing there is that I had this SUPER obnoxious author who was being... well, super obnoxious. I finally got her out of my hair. Basically she was just super demanding and everything had to be perfect, and regardless of any good reason that I gave her, she would NOT take my advice, on design, or layout corrections. It drove me crazy. The higher ups finally just said "give her whatever she wants so we can just get her book done," which I always love hearing.

Oh, also, I'm going paintballing with my department vs. the illustrators next Saturday. Again, my work is way cooler than yours.

I'm sad about the season finale of Venture Brothers. Like... seriously. It was a good episode, but... gah!

Our house is old and crappy and falling apart. Good thing we're renting, not renting to own or something equally fruity, because this house is seriously old and in bad shape.

Um... that's pretty much it. Now I'm hungry, so I'm going to go get "chicken" from Wal-Mart.

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*sniffle* We'll always have that very special rendition of Holst's Mars. Duh duh-nuh duh duh duh duh!

BUUUUUUUUUM! Bum BUUUUUUUUM!

I deal with one or two of these kinds of customers at work, where, no matter how hard you try to convince them, they feel that they know more about what's needed than you do.

I shoved out another set of ads, that this time I had to strip the headline itself off, for the sake of more of her text. She's neurotic about having to get ALL the information about her product in front of them in one full page ad. I mean, literally there's 14 bullet points, 4 testimonials, 3 website addresses, three paragraphs of product flavor text, a photo of the product, a photo of the product in use, another paragraph that replaced the headline... you get the idea.

We did the dance once of stripping her ad down to enough to get them to the website, but within two days her neurosis had me with 3/4 of what we removed back in. So I gave up, grumble privately, and do her bidding on it.

So, yes, I so very feel your pain on the customer that believes they know more than thou, because they are the customer, and that we basically have to sit there, swallow our pride and knowledge, and do as they wish, even knowing that what they're doing is not going to get as much response, and breaks rules that we know shouldn't be broken in those instances.

I HATE that. There have been so many instances where the author will say something that I KNOW is a crappy, terrible design, and they won't accept ANYTHING but that. So I have to just swallow my pride and know full well that the design sucks ass and it won't sell, but I get to at least rest assured that it's not my fault and I did everything I could.

I could rant about shitty customers until the cows come home... working in design leads to ass.

sad, a little. but now i would srsly KILL A BABY to not have to wait a year for next season.

Venture Brothers is the best show on TV ever.