O/B: Week Seven

This week was a slow one, comparatively. Turned in two blog posts-- one on winter riding and one on  for the MSU Pocket Guide blog on study snacks to avoid gaining weight in the winter. They both came out rather quickly and easily, but necessitated much editing.

I had a good lesson this week-- Mike and I went over the study snacks blog, and got into a minor dispute over the nature of the type of food I chose: mostly healthy, and unintentionally meat-free items. I wholeheartedly disagreed with his critique, but it took me a while to realize that wasn't the point-- and the change was then made, and the article published. Respect the editor, respect your boss, they have the final say.
After all of this, I had a few additional changes to make before publishing the blog on a Friday night, so I made them and went home, forgetting about it. Saturday morning, while glancing through the online version, I realized that the edit session with Mike hadn't been saved, and the published version reflected the original draft of the article... and all it's errors. I had to go back through it quickly and try to remember everything Mike had corrected. In a way, it felt like a blessing in disguise because it tested my ability to retain what Mike had taught me and spot those small errors in the text again. He hasn't mentioned anything to  me, so I think I must have caught (nearly) all of them.

Copy-edits for spring are done, and now we wait for the end of the week to proofread and finalize the layout. Assignments for Cast will soon be allocated, and then we will repeat the process. This week one of the other editorial interns quit, which I have mixed opinions about. It means less competition, but now more work for me.

Today I'm bogged down with administrative tasks-- sorting through excel spread sheets, de-duping, updating, organizing, etc. It  makes my head hurt, and is completely uninteresting, as well as rather hard to understand and make decisions about because of the nature of the material. It's frustrating and slow work, but it's sort of nice to have a break from the editing and writing... for a little while.