i think it's a conspiracy...

So I've been waiting for Pitt to send proofs so I can start indexing. Boy, I thought, this will be perfect. They'll arrive sometime early August (i.e., the projected arrival time) and I'll have the month to index, index, til daddy takes the page proofs away. That early August thing, not so much. They'll be here at the end of this week, right about the time I'm starting beginning-of-the-schoolyear festivities on campus. And am I going to meet my goal to have poetics article back to Rhetoric Review before classes start? Again, not so much.