You Had To Be There
Letters From The EditorFinal Day…Almost
I’ve been at school since 10am. Working straight through all of the things that needed touching up and finishing. Did I mention that I went to sleep at about 1:30 after finishing my pages.
So, Mrs. R and I have been working on the Index pages and putting names to the club pictures. ARGH. If I had to do this type of work everyday my brain would explode!
Correcting the Index has given me a great appreciation of names. I’m going to give my children very simple names that not even a caveman could get wrong, ie Jane Doe, or John Smith. Hopefully my husbands last name is easy. But definitely no Matthews, or Katelyns or any other name that could be shortened and changed. My child won’t go by their middle name either, because thats annoying.
The index is almost complete. I need to add in the club pictures.
I also need to finish our yearbook spread. Mrs. R left. We had planned to finish the book today. But our plans were foiled because she had to leave early and the club pictures took longer than anticipated.
So…I’m here in this empty school working through as much as I can today. Because Friday…I’m gone two weeks straight and I’m pretty sure that our deadline falls somewhere in there.
Will our book get turned in on time!?! Stay tuned.
Day 95
The halls are dark and empty. This room is dark and empty, actually. Mrs. R isn’t here yet. She said she was going to stop in at 10:30 or so and it is now 12:37. I’m not too bothered by it.
I’m almost done with the JV soccer page. I just need to finish up the Boys’ and Girl’s track pages. Then Graduation and that will be the end of my hardcore-real pages. Then we have the yearbook spread to make and we have to put names to all of those club pictures. Good times. Almost there. Almost.
Day 94
School is out. My staff is gone, leaving myself and Mrs. R to finish the handful a spreads and the index. I have been so busy with graduating and this yearbook that I haven’t updated daily like I would have wanted. So I documented my last day of school. Which was a mass of yearbook and such.
Time Check in the library.
Checking the email. Because I can do that on Mrs. R’s login.
This is the computer I sat at in the library. We got kicked out of our room, because someone was doing some SOL testing. It’s a mess. The Papers on the floor were ones that I was done with. btw.
Editing.
Interviewing someone.
Editing some spreads, while listening to my ipod.
Day Twenty
The Endsheets are due by the end of February, as are all of our ad pages. I am so thrilled! The front endsheet is coming along nicely. I just have to tweak a few things and it will be done. It is a corkboard with all sorts of post-its and pictures. You Had To Be There…to DO it…PLAY it…BE it…LIVE it… etc. Looks very creative. The back endsheet is very similar to last years – we’re in the process of gathering all of our seniors signatures and in the center of the endsheet will be a picture of all of the seniors in the formation on an ‘08.
Meanwhile, Savannah and Heather keep plugging away on those ads. We will be adding 8 more pages to the back of our book. To make room for all of our ads and to make room for our index. This year our index will include Senior Stats and Club pictures, which will probably double it’s size (the index’s, I mean).
I tracked down two more of our Senior Superlative winners and snapped a shot of them. I only have two more of those to fill and then I will be done with those. Seniors keep coming and going. I’ve had to add and take away from the # of Seniors there are in the book. So, I’ll to go back re-do that entire senior section, plugging each of the pictures in individually. Oh, Joy.
Day Three.
I had more pictures to score over and move for people. I had to find football pictures for the senior slideshow. I ended up adding more than football. There were seniors rolling around in paint, and fun candid ones. Of course, I had to include them in the folder, very originally named “seniorslideshow for danielle and stew.” I amaze myself sometimes.
I worked on arranging a schedule for seniors to come get their superlatives taken. That took longer than I imagined (everything seems to be taking longer than I imagined). I haven’t finished.
I asked a girl, who I assumed was going to get a Senior picture – because she seemed like the kind of person who would. She has one, and says she’ll get it to me. I really shouldn’t have asked because all I put all of the seniors pictures into place last night. I’m trying to watch out for everyone – I know what it’s like… and I’m horrible with deadlines myself.
Savannah and Heather are now competing in most unique picture taking. Savannah took some beutiful pictures yesterday. One had a girl poised on a windowsill with her image reflected in it. Gorgeous. Heather snapped a shot of a boy walking on his hands, she may have to redo that one because his stomach is showing unfortunately. Speaking of pictures, Heather was a unsatisfied with the pictures that were on the spread she had been left – so, she has my full permission to change the page to her liking. Hey, it’s hers now.
Diane came for a quick 5 second visit today. I miss her. She was an absolute joy to the class, because she had a personality all her own. She threw everything out there. She was on the first semester staff. Oh, how I do miss that big rowdy bunch.
Day Two.
Now that the roads are clear of snow we’re back to fourth block for yearbook.
Mrs. R asked me to upload all the Senior pictures to a CD for a teacher. Since each photography company sends their own CD, Ihad to upload 4 or 5 CD’s to my hard drive and then put the whole folder on a CD, a fairly low stress job. Until I got to the CD that held the senior pictures taken at school. Pictures Inc., the company that photographs the students, sends all pictures taken, for each student this ranged from 2 – 8. In short, I had to choose the best picture for each student. This felt like busy work, but hey.
After fooling around with the Senior pictures, I was in the mood to work on Senior pages. I have to move each individual picture into place, unlike the underclassmen pages where you can flow all the pictures through, no prob. The senior pages are going to look rather wicked, I believe.
Half-way through the block I reminded Mrs. R about the education information for the faculty’s spread. We’re going to include their college and what they majored in underneath their mugshot. She hadn’t emailed the teachers, yet. She did that, and received many replies. Yay for attentive teachers! Mr. W replied to Mrs. R’s email saying that he graduated from Harvard with a PhD. Oh, please, (we thought) he wasn’t fooling anyone. He’s a very fun loving teacher and we thought it was hilarious.
Since, I have so much work to accomplish, I’m planning on working on a few of my spreads tonight. Hopefully, I can get the senior pictures put into place. Then all I’ll have to do on those are the Senior Superlative pictures! There is so much work to do!
Day One.
Day One was actually on Wednesday, we have a snowday today.
We received spreads that had been unfinished by last semesters staff. Three may turn out to be a magic number. The yearbook has three cameras and now, since there are three of us, we’ll ecah carry one around. Hopefully, we’ll be able to get a better representation of the school. This will, also, stretch us. It’s obvious that it will be harder to cover all of the sports events. Let’s remain optimistic, shall we.
With the rest of the staff gone I moved myself over to a nicer computer in the middle of the room. We worked our way right through that 90 minutes. I drilled through the spreads I had been tossed, fixing errors. Heather worked right next to me correcting her spreads. Savannah seated herself in a desk reviewing the ads, blasting her headphones per usual. We had to throw a pencil at her to get her attention.
Mrs. R was working at her computer, reading over naturale nutrition. Mr. W came in and positioned himself in front of a computer close to Mrs. R. He teaches geography on the 2nd floor. They’re good friends. Heather and I laugh as he and Mrs. R talk food. They talk food for 90 minutes.
I attempt to load some software onto the computer, so the Canon camera will work. We had it sent of last semester because it was on the fritz. We’ve since gotten it back, it takes wonderful pictures and will be a great assest for the rest of the year. Unfortunatly, I’m not able to pull the pictures off of it. Loading the software was a monumental task that wasn’t accomplished, hopefully the School Tech man will save our lives and be able to make it work. While, the camera software is pretending to load on one computer, I download Adobe Photoshop onto the computer. Adobe loads succesfully and works magnificently, much better than the atrocious GIMP shop. Honestly, how could a program named GIMP work properly?
New Semester, New Staff
I am Editor of the 2008 Legend, my school’s yearbook. This is probably one of the biggest responsibilties in my life.
Last semester my staff included 10 people. This semester my staff has been wittled down to 2 people. Myself and two other girls, Savannah and Heather. There’s our advisor, also, Mrs. R. Four people. Mrs. R doesn’t really have any pages that are her own, well she hasn’t in the past. So, if it’s just the three of us with the rest of the book to finish…thats about an average of 30 pages per person or 15 spreads. I could faint right now.
