I hate bureaucracy

[lollardfish]

My thesis is not done. Although MS Word assures me that the left margin is 1.5" wide, it is in fact about 1.3" wide, and that is not acceptable. I'll have to reprint the whole thing, and reformat it. In fact, because that might push it too close to the 2-volume length, I am going to have to reformat the thesis from double-spaced to 1.5 spaced, and re-do the entire table of contents. This is infuriating.

Comments

[neogrammarian.livejournal.com]

It's this sort of infuriating detail that made me a Wordperfect person so many years ago- Gates doesn't care about wysiwyg. Sorry you're having these troubles.

[chirosinger.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear. How frustrating! *hugs* (if that helps)

[mia-mcdavid.livejournal.com]

"This is infuriating."

Dang! that's a lot of paper! And printing time, and general aggravation, and and and . . .

I'm so sorry.

[creidylad.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry :(

Does this mean you'll owe a third person a bound version of the thesis?

But at least it's not a total rewrite of the "Oh my god this document upon which my thesis hinged was just exposed as a forgery -- and not the kind the thesis is about" type of thing.

[bhoneydew.livejournal.com]

_So_ feel your pain on this one. What made it even more entertaining is that we were packing up the house as I was printing the submit copy.

The microfilming people really need to get a life.