The Second One

You know, I just enjoyed writing that first post that I decided to write another one, this on about anything that might pop into my head. It shouldn't be a very long one, mainly because it's almost 10:00 and there's screaming coming from the next room. I think someone is dying, some African people or something. Oh, it's that 24:Redemption thing going on. No idea what that's about.

Being Layout Editor-in-Chief of the paper is harder than what people think. There is only so much that I can do during the two hour-and-half class periods that I am given. I spent about twenty minutes to half-hour extracting the Lancer from the photo. Gads, that took a long time. Zooming close enough where you see individual pixels, tracing very carefully so you get a nice, clear image without too much "fuzz" on the outside. That's all I did after school that one day, extracting images and trying to make a decent photo out of them.

Now, I think the staff thinks we just sit on our asses all the time goofing off, more so in Editors period. That's not so. You know who really sits on their ass all the time? I won't name any names here (Starts with a G!), but I think the staff knows who I'm talking about. Now, I didn't come here to lay the blame game and talk smack against my fellow co-workers, but sometimes I can't help it. Sometimes...Anyway, back to my defense. Cailie, the Editor-in-Chief, is busy editing stories. It doesn't take 30 seconds to edit a story. It take a while longer, and sometimes there are a lot of mistakes in a story. Happened to me a couple times last year. Morgan, our Managing Editor-in-Chief, is busy getting together the student submissions and taking care of that page. It's a lot of work. When I accepted this position, I hadn't expected it to be quite this much work. All in all, Newspaper is a ton of fun, and it's especially satisfying to see your baby finally out on paper. I can't wait to see this months issue when I get back from break.

One final thing for the night. I don't mean to sound pretentious or serious or drab about things, sometimes I just need to vent. Don't we all though? So I think I'll apologize in advance if anything I write offends you. Actually, I don't think I will. If I write something that someone considers offensive, I'll probably defend myself and say I was justified in writing it. Mostly I'll just talk about bland things, like how my day went and such. Occasionally I might have an opinion piece, like the one I started out with below, or above, however it works. There will also be times when I post some of my writing.