my keyboard is too far forward...
Which is weird, because I always keep it in the same place? I don't know. Today I've decided it's too far forward.
Today I also ended up feeling like I've got my head above the water for the first time in a long time. My little freak outs recently led up to a big freak out, but today I'm... kind of okay. There are a lot of things that are contributing to that. For one, I thought I'd have to workshop a (crappy) section of my senior project today, but due to a miscommunication, I ended up switching with another kid, so I can workshop something else instead when my time comes. That was... kind of a load off. I've been super worried. Also, I did some work things and talked to my Latin teacher. Kind of freaked out on him, actually, but things are in order and I'm not as screwed as I thought I was and all is well with the world.
At least, for this weekend.
I've also been looking into this book-publishing thing. I might just be clinging to it because it's the only thing I'm really good at that I can see making a living off of, but I do love layout and I'm kind of.... obsessive compulsive about it. I nearly had an apoplectic fit in Senior Coll. today because the writing magazine we were reading had such a terrible layout that I couldn't concentrate. I wish I had a scanner so I could show you examples. On one page, the far right had column was devoted to ads and none of the ads were the same width. It looked terrible. Oh my god.
Um. Right. Anyway, I've been looking into it, and I was reading about the programs at Emerson and another college and was kind of shocked to see them touting QuarkXPress as the future of magazine/book layout. Um, sorry, Quark is so 2005, guys. InDesign is where it's at. It makes everything so much easier and crisper and generally looks better. Much better for high end publications, I feel. Plus, it has the dropper tool! The dropper tool is awesome!
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The rest of today's agenda consists of writing, sleeping, and watching some SGA with moonsheen. I think this is an agenda I can stick to.
Today I also ended up feeling like I've got my head above the water for the first time in a long time. My little freak outs recently led up to a big freak out, but today I'm... kind of okay. There are a lot of things that are contributing to that. For one, I thought I'd have to workshop a (crappy) section of my senior project today, but due to a miscommunication, I ended up switching with another kid, so I can workshop something else instead when my time comes. That was... kind of a load off. I've been super worried. Also, I did some work things and talked to my Latin teacher. Kind of freaked out on him, actually, but things are in order and I'm not as screwed as I thought I was and all is well with the world.
At least, for this weekend.
I've also been looking into this book-publishing thing. I might just be clinging to it because it's the only thing I'm really good at that I can see making a living off of, but I do love layout and I'm kind of.... obsessive compulsive about it. I nearly had an apoplectic fit in Senior Coll. today because the writing magazine we were reading had such a terrible layout that I couldn't concentrate. I wish I had a scanner so I could show you examples. On one page, the far right had column was devoted to ads and none of the ads were the same width. It looked terrible. Oh my god.
Um. Right. Anyway, I've been looking into it, and I was reading about the programs at Emerson and another college and was kind of shocked to see them touting QuarkXPress as the future of magazine/book layout. Um, sorry, Quark is so 2005, guys. InDesign is where it's at. It makes everything so much easier and crisper and generally looks better. Much better for high end publications, I feel. Plus, it has the dropper tool! The dropper tool is awesome!
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The rest of today's agenda consists of writing, sleeping, and watching some SGA with moonsheen. I think this is an agenda I can stick to.