Door-to-Door

This summer, I'm working as student editor for the school's literary journal, and working at College Relations to fill in the gaps of time.

So far, I've only had gaps.

Only five of 15 students have sent me final drafts of their work, which Alisha warned me would happen (as I inherited this position from her). This means that I've little to work with in terms of putting the book together.

Thus, I have time to devote to... practicing putting the book together. I've spent hours designing fake pages, all in one document. If I printed and bound the practice copy, it would begin with a spread about advertising, copied from a magazine; then there would be multiple first chapters of books copied from Amazon.com's LOOK INSIDE feature; next there is an actual article for the journal, accompanied by a false name and several different page number locations; finally there is an art spread, with an actual image from the journal, and completely different picture's artist statement.

So I am getting experience in the program, and really that is good. I also spend a fair amount of time examining graphic design magazines = very cool.

But that's just the morning.

I've never had to sit in a chair in front of a computer for HOURS at a time. Well, at the library, yes, but we often stand up there, too. So I stare at my own made-up booklet until lunch. By the afternoon, I'm feeling stupid for not having DONE anything terribly useful. So I've begun going to different offices to ask if the inhabitant needs anything done.

Today I was given the assignment of deleting unnecessary from a recent field trip. There were 1200+ pictures on file. I got it down to 150. It took about 3.5 hours and then I went to Zumba.