The End

It's quite amazing how this project never finishes. The report is printed and bound (and very impressive it looks too) but now I have to get all the team members to sign it. With the exception of the final rush the day before the acceptance test, the team haven't been together in the same room since about Easter, so I've just left it in the lab for the remaining two to get it signed and handed in. It's out of my hands now, and I'm very glad of that.

Reprographics in the Purdie building is a very relaxing room. Being in it marks the end of weeks of work - if you're standing in there you've most likely finished the work for the year and the huge writeups that go with them, and can relax once more. Or more likely, be panicking about anything that you forgot to put in before you printed it to PDF - I spent about two hours this morning repeatedly editing, converting and uploading before I got a result where I didn't think anything had been left out.

I don't know if it's just me that gets this impression, but the employees in Reprographics are the calmest people ever - it must be a side effect of being around that much paper. They don't walk normally, they seem to sort of glide around the place while talking to you soothingly. Now that I come to think of it, this may be a successful attempt to hypnotise people in to paying £17.50 for printing and binding a project.