Editors make me cry

Just how many projects is your average acquisitions editor running? Why are they the point people with authors? Aren't they just about ready to cry with the madness of it all? I ask because I've just been "reminding" my own two AcqEds that a) I exist, b) there's some questions to sort out, and c) that without their responses I do not have a clear map for what we are doing here.

Example: No where in Lovely Publishers guidance materials is it clarified that a copy of the ms for peer review Need Not be (and indeed is not at all the same thing as) the camera ready copy with all the formatting pinned and pleated.

Or, forgot to send along the contract.

Nor have the mental breathing space to sit a for a minute, look in a file, see where a project is, and respond lucidly to a writer.

Gah. Really, if I'm frustrated, they must be wall to wall with Too Much.

Screw it for now. I have writing and seasonal shopping to do.