Wow...once again, sitting at my desk, finally catching a moment to sit down and relax. Funny, me working on a holiday weekend. That's nothing new.
Tonight is the first of many headspinning nites. Tomorrow is our first production day and so far I've laid out most of the paper.
When I came in this afternoon I found that the thorn I mentioned earlier had decided to lay out her section. Apparently she forgot everything she learned about journalism while she was in Europe for six months. There were butting headlines, pictures that sat right beside ad space. Christ, there were only two stories on the front page of the features section. Argh.
So I decided to call the section editor to see what she knew. Apparently she told the thorn the idea that she and I had and talked about and asked her to work going on that.
When I called her to ask the designer about it, I was totally non-confrontational, without a hint of criticism.
Yea, she pretty much snapped.
Tonight I reworked the page on my own and will use it as a fall back incase the thorn designer decideds to go MIA.
What else...well, I had to explain to a photog why a digitally altered photo can't go on the front page of the paper. You'd think they'd know these things.
To top it all off...it's 2 a.m. My office is scary, everyone else is off drunk partying and I have to be back here at 9 am. to get the paper out by 8 p.m.
Hockey season starts in a week. That means no weekends for me anymore.
I have a staggering amount of schoolwork to do.
And my dad is in the middle of having a few "bad days." He gets that way every now and then since he had the stroke. It really wears my on mom and the rest of us. He's had more bad days latel, so I've been going around making rash decisions and snapping at people.
Guess all my problems are kind of shitty next to his.
Yea, I'm a dick. Finding out more and more lately.
Tonight is the first of many headspinning nites. Tomorrow is our first production day and so far I've laid out most of the paper.
When I came in this afternoon I found that the thorn I mentioned earlier had decided to lay out her section. Apparently she forgot everything she learned about journalism while she was in Europe for six months. There were butting headlines, pictures that sat right beside ad space. Christ, there were only two stories on the front page of the features section. Argh.
So I decided to call the section editor to see what she knew. Apparently she told the thorn the idea that she and I had and talked about and asked her to work going on that.
When I called her to ask the designer about it, I was totally non-confrontational, without a hint of criticism.
Yea, she pretty much snapped.
Tonight I reworked the page on my own and will use it as a fall back incase the thorn designer decideds to go MIA.
What else...well, I had to explain to a photog why a digitally altered photo can't go on the front page of the paper. You'd think they'd know these things.
To top it all off...it's 2 a.m. My office is scary, everyone else is off drunk partying and I have to be back here at 9 am. to get the paper out by 8 p.m.
Hockey season starts in a week. That means no weekends for me anymore.
I have a staggering amount of schoolwork to do.
And my dad is in the middle of having a few "bad days." He gets that way every now and then since he had the stroke. It really wears my on mom and the rest of us. He's had more bad days latel, so I've been going around making rash decisions and snapping at people.
Guess all my problems are kind of shitty next to his.
Yea, I'm a dick. Finding out more and more lately.
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I was thinking of you today... again. but i won't talk about that here.