O/B Week Fourteen

For the first time in a long time, I only spent one day on the weekend working on things for O/B and had a day off! I actually got to go out to Virginia City for their winter series Chautauqua and a NRDC-sponsored conservation banquet, which was a lot of fun... until my boyfriend got violently ill and I had to drive his manual (which I do NOT know how to drive) back to Bozeman so we could get him to urgent care. Lesson in that? Apparently fun comes at a cost. Or don't eat Virginia City cheesecake anymore. Either one.

I'm having a hard time remembering what I even did this past week in the office-- that's how thrilling my work has been lately. I mostly have been writing my articles for the edition, and working on small tasks like updating our social media and distribution things. I audited the spring edition article uploads (again) and finally have found those to be complete. If I never upload another thing online again, I will die happy.

I met with Mike to discuss a piece I wrote for Cast on hiking to fish at alpine lakes. He had a lot of critique for this particular piece. On his dual screens, he pulled his edited-final version up and my original side-by-side and discussed the changes he made. I found this incredibly helpful because I could see and hear the difference in the final version, and get a small explanation from Mike to reinforce the idea. Most of what he pointed out was so obvious to me that I couldn't believe what I had written originally. It was a good reminder to keep editing and to stop and ask myself "what work is this doing?" or "is this needed here?" since I have a habit of being verbose, and adding details that, though pretty, are non-functional.

During this same  meeting I was able to talk to Mike about my final days here. Looks like we'll officially end the internship May 1st, but I'll be coming in sporadically for a couple of weeks to help Tuck finish up the copy-editing and fact-checking for the summer edition. (UGH, I thought I might have gotten out of that one.) I also got to talk to Mike about writing for O/B after I'm gone as a paid writer, which he was game for, and we even discussed a few articles he's been wanting to get in the works that he thinks we could feature for the fall issue. Hopefully my first summer free from the binds of school is just angsty enough that I can bring myself to get going on that writing!