Wow, I feel like I was there, like, the day before you discovered the leadership problems in town...

I have my own problems with lack of leadership up here on the Q'anjob'al issue of our in-house journal we are trying to publish (e.g., throw up on the web). The professor who taught the Field Methods course and okayed the special issue (and then promptly passed all the responsibility off to me) has suddenly decided that the issue will be a disaster if we don't a) consult the sources that he has squirrelled away in his office (I asked him to make them available to us, and he offered to instead return some of them to the library, meaning that I would have to then figure out which ones, look up their call numbers and run around getting them!) b) send them to a professor here for review, and c) send them to a Mayan linguist for review, meaning they could get rejected by either of those people.

This is fine and it's model scholarship, but it's going above and beyond the process that the authors and I signed up for almost a year ago. Way above and beyond. Waaaaay above and beyond. And did I mention that he thought I was going to do this without him lifting a finger? We had a meeting this morning where the tenured professors basically pressed him into doing ANYTHING for it. It was kind of hilarious. Anyway, yeah, it makes me feel a little like you guys (oh, young people, take care of all the work and then we'll take the credit!)