On Work

Remember that period when I didn’t blog about anything but philosophy exclusively for two weeks? Yeah, I feel like I’m doing that about work now.

Sorry guys. I’ll stop.

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Pixel Q. Styx Editor-in-Chief

The News Editor wants me to apply for the Editor-in-Chief position next year.

At first I said ‘no’ out of modesty, but now I seriously don’t want to do it.

Seriously.

First off, I doubt I’ll have enough time. That semester will be the semester I start my paper. I will also need to take 15 hours (I have 14 now), which will suck up time like nobody’s business.
Furthermore, I want to graduate in December, and the EiC position would almost certainly require me to extend my stay until May.

Finally, my assistant, who I already beat out for my current job, is likely planning on applying for the EiC position. I rather like the girl and don’t want her to hate me, so I might just not apply to be nice.

Come to think of it. Sorry Jayna, I’ve got better things to do than be top dog at a campus paper. I’m satisfied enough with my place in life to know I don’t need the ego boost. My assistant, however, does. And who am I to stand in the way of that?

Merry Christmas Laura. Don’t make me regret it.

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I own this place

I might as well live in the newsroom. I spend more time here than humanly possible and have as much, if not more, knowledge– in my two and a half weeks on the job– of the paper and paper-related factoids than anyone else here.

When I do something, I take it seriously. Which is why I was so bad at doing comedy.

Anyway, my list of contributions so far:

• A Sudoku in the Comics section.
• Reinstating the Horoscopes.
• Getting rid of personal classifieds whenever possible.
• Mastering Quark XPress and Photoshop to a level unknown to even the people who work with the programs daily. Mastering the Macintosh format to the point that even the resident techie needed my help in installing a program on my computer.
• Setting up a partnership with the other two nearby university’s newspapers.
• Setting up a new system with the photographers so as to be able to design the pages without their immediate preferrence and to streamline the process.
• Setting up a system with the Ad Manager through which I can do my entire job remotely.

I tell you. I will make this paper perfect before I leave.

Hell, with just personal versions of Microsoft Office, Quark, and Adobe Creative Suite, this job has paid for its lack of pay.

Update (5.5.2006): I didn’t get Microsoft Office from work, nor did I get the rest of the creative suite. And my having Quark saved us when the QLA agreement went on the fritz in April.

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