Currently Vice-President Biden, Professor Gates, Officer Crowley and President Obama are having a beer (or two) at the White House. Let’s hope that they do not get drunk and disorderly.
It’s kind cool diplomacy. It always works for me.
July 30, 2009
Out of Order
Many readers of this blog know that I had a long career in print production working for publishers until the economic meltdown of 2008. Two nights ago, I dreamed that I received a shipment of magazines that I had not produced as a production director. The pages in the book were out of order. The centerspread was the outside front and back covers. The front and back covers were in the center of the magazine.
But somehow I was responsible for this mess. The print production director is always responsible when the printing plant shipping clerk sends magazines to the wrong place. Or when the bindery equipment malfunctions and additional pages are added to the book or the book misses a form of pages.
I responded to the problem: why was not the schematic (or plan, road map, layout) of the publication not followed by the printer? The printer claimed that no one sent him a plan for the book. What about the folios (or page numbers)? Why were these not used as a guide for the construction of the book? It seems the printer just placed pages wherever and published the book without a plan.
Am I living my life without a plan these days? Did my subconscience speak to me in this dream? It has been a year of losses. My husband lost his job, then I lost mine. Then my dog died. It sounds like a country song. Or in my case, a publication without a plan.
