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.
