Still massively grumpy about deadlines and expectations
I will concede that there are certain hard deadlines, like having to give a talk on a given date.
And that if one is part of a joint project one should not faff around too much and go wildly beyond the deadline suggested -
- though sometimes I think this is more honoured in the breach, etc -
- also that if something is a special journal issue there probably are significant constraints, because otherwise you are likely to put the whole schedule of the journal for months and even years ahead out of skew.
But at the moment I am, 'spare me these edited volumes where it is all hurry up and then wait' because of far too many where I have been through iterations of getting the chapter in and then being asked for edits and then being asked for more edits, all with stringent deadlines, sometimes with matters of years rather than months between these phases.
Not to mention the volumes that simply, after one has gone through the labour of turning a conference presentation into footnoted text, disappear onto the shelf next to E Casaubon's Key to All Mythologies - okay, sometimes one is able to recycle the material in due course (as I am doing at the moment), but that itself is a happy happenstance.
Also, I can very seldom get a sense of urgency about reviews, unless it is some non-academic publication for which one actually gets paid, especially given the time it takes from sending the thing in to its being published.
But normally I am really pretty compulsive about deadlines, having been on the other side.
This from your 'No really, I think I am entitled to my occasional Diva Strop' hedjog.
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