At the last minute, as usual
So here I am at the IJA Juggling Festival in Lexington, Kentucky. I've been a bit too busy to be online too much, and you have to pay for internet in the hotel room, so I don't get on the computer at the end of the day, either. I'm having a good time but the area of the convention center that is designated as the gym is COLD AS CRAP so it can be a little hard to get started. Once I'm warm enough to take off my jacket (jean jacket--it's lucky I have it with me, even) I enjoy the juggling.
Anyway, I do a lot of volunteer work for the IJA throughout the year when they need graphic design work done. I do their magazine ads and such; I did the t-shirt design once; I did the festival DVD covers a few times; I did the festival program once... that kind of thing. I usually volunteer some at the festival, too, working behind the registration table or something. In exchange for my work, they comp my festival fees (which covers tickets to all the shows and competitions, gets you into the gym all week, gets the t-shirt, etc.) This year I brought Dominic with me and agreed to do some extra volunteering myself as well as Dominic spending some time doing volunteer work (mostly checking badges at the door, but he also did a few hours at the t-shirt table today) he got in for free, too.
I worked the first three afternoons at the cash register, which wasn't bad. So the first day I'm at the register behind the registration desk and the festival coordinator comes up and asks me if I'd be able to do a program for the public show (which is tonight). I said sure, just get me the info for what needs to be in it as soon as possible. He said ok.
So at about 5pm today they get the info to me. The show is tonight at 8pm. So I missed most of the Extreme Juggling Competition to come sit in my room and design a program. One of the other volunteers just came by and picked up the pdf file on a thumb drive a few minutes ago.
The funny thing is that this is how it goes a lot of the time. I'll get an email saying "hey, the deadline is this Thursday, can you do two ads for the magazine?" or something. Fortunately I'm pretty good at doing things at the last minute.
Dan should be getting here in about 30 minutes, the show starts in an hour. I'm going to start heading in that direction so I can get good seats. :)
Anyway, I do a lot of volunteer work for the IJA throughout the year when they need graphic design work done. I do their magazine ads and such; I did the t-shirt design once; I did the festival DVD covers a few times; I did the festival program once... that kind of thing. I usually volunteer some at the festival, too, working behind the registration table or something. In exchange for my work, they comp my festival fees (which covers tickets to all the shows and competitions, gets you into the gym all week, gets the t-shirt, etc.) This year I brought Dominic with me and agreed to do some extra volunteering myself as well as Dominic spending some time doing volunteer work (mostly checking badges at the door, but he also did a few hours at the t-shirt table today) he got in for free, too.
I worked the first three afternoons at the cash register, which wasn't bad. So the first day I'm at the register behind the registration desk and the festival coordinator comes up and asks me if I'd be able to do a program for the public show (which is tonight). I said sure, just get me the info for what needs to be in it as soon as possible. He said ok.
So at about 5pm today they get the info to me. The show is tonight at 8pm. So I missed most of the Extreme Juggling Competition to come sit in my room and design a program. One of the other volunteers just came by and picked up the pdf file on a thumb drive a few minutes ago.
The funny thing is that this is how it goes a lot of the time. I'll get an email saying "hey, the deadline is this Thursday, can you do two ads for the magazine?" or something. Fortunately I'm pretty good at doing things at the last minute.
Dan should be getting here in about 30 minutes, the show starts in an hour. I'm going to start heading in that direction so I can get good seats. :)