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Last weekend I had been thinking about the project, and why I hadn’t heard anything. I was going to email Suzie on monday, but when I got home from work, I found an email letting Mirjam and I know that we would be getting the content pretty soon. She also mentioned that it needed to be done and to the printer by this coming monday, the 3rd. I replied, letter her know I was ready and that I wasn’t going to be busy all weekend, and that any extra time would be great. There was no way I could design an 80 page book in a few days, especially since I didn’t have the content at that point.

Tuesday, I got a reply to that email saying that Mirjam hadn’t been heard from, so basically, it was down to me. Oh oh!

Wednesday, I received all the content, and an email from Gary Enns, the project manager, asking if I knew Photoshop, as the original art guy had also dropped. So now, I’m designing the entire book. Crap. He also said that he had managed to get the due-to-printer date pushed back to the 10th. Phew! That’s more realistic. After I read that, a huge weight was lifted off my shoulders. I had been a little stressed since I was being forced into such a tight schedule, and it was possible I was going to have to cancel my Vegas trip tomorrow. And there was no way that was happening…

Last night, I got home and did my one algebra assignment. I then thought I should start working on this. Well, after many trial and errors, I can’t get InDesign to install on my computer. Thankfully, it’s still installed on my old one. I’m going to try again tonight to install it, but I might be SOL. I tried uninstalling everything Adobe, too. I’ll try installing the entire CS2 suite tonight, instead of just the app’s I want.

So, I just printed out the book, onto regular paper [and found a spelling error. Everything is laid out nice, telling me where everything should go. That’s a HUGE help. I thought I was going to have to do that myself. Each piece has it’s own page, the TOC is already done. Like Suzie said, all I have to do is design it. I do have a couple questions though. Some of the text is in red for some unknown reason, and I need to verify that the inside of the book is strictly only black. I think I have a good idea in my head of what it will look like. I’m not going to be doing any math homework tonight, and work only on this.