I took on something I really shouldn’t have. When I am already overloaded with work I agreed to edit a research report on a topic with which I am completely unfamiliar, written by 6 different people none of whom have English as a native language (and none of whom share a language with each other), who have just emerged from several years of grueling fieldwork followed by unspecified trauma during the pandemic, with the report due on 1 April, in a concise 30 pages, and they were currently at over 150 pages in one document and 50 pages of partly repeated text in another. Even worse, I said that I would do this next weekend, but this weekend I would look at the full report and give suggestions on how to improve it pending the final edit, which I would complete leaving 1 day to spare before the deadline.
So today has not been an easy day, trying to wrap my head around it all and moving between the two documents. I will be up late and possibly very early as well.
In the meantime, tomorrow the markets open here in Turkey. It will be interesting to see what will happen.