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I'm not sure when it was that I became part-administrator. I'm reminded of when Steve Bennett and I saw a poster for the Prince tribute band playing then (in 2000), and playing now, at the Boardwalk, Las Vegas, and Steve said, "the guys in that band must have woken up one morning and said to themselves, 'where did it all go wrong'?"
So, here I am at the end of the month, looking at 12, yes, 12, administrative tasks, stapled, like accusatory filings, to the board behind my desk. Of these tasks, six have to be performed daily and another six have to be performed at the end of each month. And, all credit to me today, I've managed five of them. But, well, hell, I'm a WRITER. It's well known that writers don't "do" admin. They leave things to the last minute, they screw it up, they forget.
I guess that my mistake was that I showed some signs of efficiency. This is such a rare thing in writers, that admin tasks that other people would have rescued from the average Sammy Scribe on the grounds that if they didn't do it, then Sammy Scribe would just shovel them into the metaphorical bin.
So it goes.
So, here I am at the end of the month, looking at 12, yes, 12, administrative tasks, stapled, like accusatory filings, to the board behind my desk. Of these tasks, six have to be performed daily and another six have to be performed at the end of each month. And, all credit to me today, I've managed five of them. But, well, hell, I'm a WRITER. It's well known that writers don't "do" admin. They leave things to the last minute, they screw it up, they forget.
I guess that my mistake was that I showed some signs of efficiency. This is such a rare thing in writers, that admin tasks that other people would have rescued from the average Sammy Scribe on the grounds that if they didn't do it, then Sammy Scribe would just shovel them into the metaphorical bin.
So it goes.
