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Where Have I Been All Summer, You Ask?
“I’m not going to say goodbye,” said my boss tonight as I signed off on my last stages of This Summer’s Big Project and tidied up the office I’ve been using. “Because, really, we can consider this to have been stage one.”
“Oh, you are staying!” grinned a staff member who’d stopped by my door to mention something to my boss.
“Yep,” my boss confirmed. “We’re just about to put [This Summer’s Big Project] to bed and we decided to extend our agreement. It’ll be good—she’ll keep me sane and make sure we get the next one out.”
“I won’t be here as often,” I clarified. “But I’ll still be around a couple times a week.”
“I’m glad you’ll be here,” said the staff member. “It’s been great having you.”
“Thanks, I feel the same,” I told her in all honesty. “But it’ll be nice to get a little break away from all this stuff. A couple weeks will do me good.”
Finally tally on This Summer’s Big Project before it gets handed over to the editing team? 6000+ words of research and abbreviated interviews; roughly 15 single-spaced pages in Word.
(At least he’ll be paying me this time.)