O/B: Week Fifteen

Good lord, things are wrapping up quickly aren't they? All the sudden there are a mere ten days left in the semester and, of course, I feels as if I have more to do now than I ever have before. There's not even time to panic about graduation.

This week at O/B has gone by even faster than the others. Today was the deadline for summer submissions, so I've been in the office since 7am putting the finishing touches on my own work, and am now inundated with copy-editing everyone else's. I have another deadline on Friday of this week for some of my excel tasks, that to be honest, I've yet to start. It's difficult trying to manage all my work for finals, my job, and the deadlines for this internship. Leaves no time for anything else, and a viscous thirst for whiskey on my lips. I'm confident that I'll get what needs to be done finished, but until then I will radiate stress.

Wednesday was our creative art meeting, where we looked at the photo layout for the summer edition. These meetings are usually very beneficial to me as a writer. They serve as a meeting of minds; everyone is in the office and we all come together to discuss what has thus far been separate pieces of work and try to figure out how they will talk to each other in the final drafting of the publication. Angie and Ryan spearhead this meeting, and Mike, Tuck, Drew, Christopher, and I get to sit back, postulate, and give our input. Something I hadn't give a lot of thought to as a writer, before this internship, was how photos are chosen to accompany a piece of text. Often times the writer doesn't get to make this decision, and it's really quite interesting to hear someone removed from the piece try to work out what should be it's focus. It's a good test of clear, centered writing.

We began our proofs for Cast 8am Friday morning, which turned out to be a nicer day than I had expected. Mike bought the whole office pizza, and everyone was stoked it was Friday, so the day passed quickly. I found lots of errors in the PDF mock-up, so it was refreshing to know that the work I was doing was actually useful. Sometimes it's hard to tell here. We will second proof the publication tomorrow at 8am.