Length of "final" version of article to be edited: 48 pages.
Total length of correspondence between my boss and the author involving changes and additions which has arrived in the roughly three and a half weeks since we received the "final" version just mentioned, much of it in the form of "on p. 3, line 4, add this word": 53 pages.
(Weekend only 75 minutes away: priceless [*].)
[*] Well, in fact, given club cover charges and drinks and several meals that must be purchased away from home, I will probably be able to put a dollar value to the weekend fairly easily, but I'm trying not to think about it.
Total length of correspondence between my boss and the author involving changes and additions which has arrived in the roughly three and a half weeks since we received the "final" version just mentioned, much of it in the form of "on p. 3, line 4, add this word": 53 pages.
(Weekend only 75 minutes away: priceless [*].)
[*] Well, in fact, given club cover charges and drinks and several meals that must be purchased away from home, I will probably be able to put a dollar value to the weekend fairly easily, but I'm trying not to think about it.