out of the land of the dex

I finally tidied up and submitted the index yesterday - the index that has been hanging over my head since Dr. Academic first asked me last year to compile it, and has been weighing far more heavily on my time for the last six weeks since the proofs arrived. The indexable part of the text is about 250 pages, but it's a mightily fact- and name-filled book. The index has about 750 main entries, and a total of about 5500 page references. I hope the publisher doesn't want to cut it. But at least for the moment I'm done, which means it's time for my ( Indexing Rant )