Apr-Jul: I'll be in the South Pacific.
Something like the good old days
Just one short year ago, I was managing editor of LeTourneau University’s YellowJacket. As such, I spent many long nights in the office: replacing inane or libelous headlines, captioning enigmatic photographs that never should have existed, excising grossly misplaced apostrophes, and scribbling caustic demands that entire pages be redesigned.
I thought of the glory days as I walked tonight.
I returned to the office after supper. We have a draft of the insert, and it’s got to be dealt with soon. Carle is running around like wild, attending to a crew from EM TV on top of everything else. The paper’s deadline is this week though, EM TV or no.
So I had the PDFs — all but page four, which was missing — and I knew what I had to do. I’d done it many times before.
But unlike the days of The YellowJacket (well, most of them), I couldn’t change anything myself. I pored over the files, making detailed notes in a Word document, which poor Michael will have to decipher tomorrow. Capitalize that t. Stick a comma there. Those four faces give me vertigo.
There are plenty of questions for Carle too, so I hope he’ll have time to hear them.
I’m more excited now than I have been so far. The project is coming together, and it really looks good. I think it’s going to be OK.
I finished my commentary and locked the door. It was just 10:30, not 6:00 a.m., as sometimes happened yesteryear.
And then, due to a set of circumstances too ridiculous to explain, I stumbled home across the center, using my arms to shield my laptop from the rain.
Good night, reader. Good night, insert. Good night, rain.
Whoops, OK, or maybe not. Page four just arrived!
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Comments
Comment from Anonymous
Time: March 29, 2006, 4:01 pm
Last year, I was the editor-in-chief of Central Christian’s Centralian…. I look back on the long nights in the journalism lab and the chore of telling students to rewrite articles (and receiving blank stares in return) and I think… BOY am I relieved! These days it doesn’t matter to me if I (or anyone else for that matter) spell words right or correctly insert commas… *sigh* what a sense of freedom ;) (Ok, so maybe I do care, but atleast I don’t HAVE to)
Good luck on the project! Blessings!
Comment from Corey Adams
Time: March 29, 2006, 5:13 pm
So EM TV is in Ukarumpa. That’s cool. When is that video going to air and is there any chance I could get a copy of it. I thought Josiah did a great job with his team. Keep in touch.
Corey
Comment from Anonymous
Time: March 30, 2006, 5:57 pm
The glory days? The good old days? I don’t recall you feeling the same way back then. How quickly we put on our rose-colored glasses, etc., etc.
That said, I hope you don’t have to write cutlines for “nautical-themed” pictures, or anything equally terrifying.
shroud
Comment from Michaela
Time: April 2, 2006, 6:40 pm
Glory days?! Is THAT what these are? Yes, I certainly don’t remember an attitude remotely like that one last year, mister.
I think I’m going to go misplace an apostrophe in your honor.
Comment from djr
Time: April 3, 2006, 4:47 am
Sounds like somebody needs more sleep!
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