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I have never, in all of my life had soooo much work to do. I feel like I am drowning. I'm now up to 10 vocal students, I'm teaching drama monday evenings, rehearsing Tuesday, Choir on Wednesday, students until late Thursday, Friday, Saturday are my gig nights, Sunday, blessed Sunday = Day OFF!!! And that's just from 4-10 pm. I work Monday - Friday from 7-5 am doing website design. I'm currently working on 4 full sites, 3 updates and 2 graphic projects. I love my work but people tend to vex me so. Case in point.

Client: I was wondering if we can get the website finished soon. My busy seaon is starting and I'd love to have it available.

Me: Of course! Have you looked and the templates I sent you?

Client: Um....... ya. I love them

Me: Did you choose one?

Client: No.

Me: Well, you have to pick one before I can start.

Client: Oh.

Me: Also I need you to send me your text and what buttons (Pages) you'd like included.

Client: I do? Can't you do it?

Me: No. I don't know your business and I have no idea what you want included.

Client: Oh.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Which is right up there with the client that wanted me to spend the day with him at his work to learn the ins and outs of his buisness. Um..... excuse me? No. I don't think so. I don't need to know how you run your business. I just need your information and a brief over view. He also freaked when I told him, "Sure, I'd love to. I've never done that before so I guess the best thing to do it bill it as an "Add on" and charge you my graphic design rate of $50.00 per hour." Hee hee hee.

Here's another recent client.

After he gave me a range of colours to use I sent him 4 (which is far more than I should have) possible website designs. (Which for those of you who don't know are entire websites, minus the text and all the pics. For examples see here As with this example , everything must be drawn from scratch. It's a ton of freakin' work. Espically doing 4 different designs using one business.) I even put swatches on each of the pages using the different colours he liked.

Client: I love them all but I think I like number 4 best.

Me: Terrific! I'll start work on it.

Client: Ummmmm could I see it done with pattern 12b instead, I really liked that pattern.

Me: *Internally Sighing* Sure. No problem.

I quickly redo the entire site using Patter 12b, which is a bitch to work with. I even do 2 versions of it with the text in different colours.

Client: Oh I like it. But the pattern seems to be a little swirly. Can we (I love when they say WE like they have anything to do with it.) fix it so it's more defined?

Me: Well, it's like that because it's a very over lapped pattern and that's the only way I can get it to tile (repeat the pattern) without it creating a line every few inches.

Client: Oh.

Me: *Screaming inside* Well, I can try going in to each over lap point and redrawing it by hand. (A long and mindnumbing process)

Client: Ok. Thanks.

So I redo it and send it off.

Client: That's amazing I love it! But could I now could I see it in blue insead of Pink?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This would all be a lot easier to deal with if I had any source of amusement. I have virturally no social life, save for playing "EverQuest" , rewatching "Pirates of the Caribbean" and "Lord of the Rings", and the occasional phone call or email from friends. Although I had a nice visit with Shannon on the weekend. =-) I was supposed to go vistit Sarah
over the weekend but I've yet recieve a paycheque from the town. Grrrrrrr..... a rant for another day! Ack! When did my life become so dull.......... I think maybe I'll take up bungee jumping or skydiving..... at least there is some excitement involved. *Sigh*
posted by Tamara at 9:30 AM