Week 9

This week I'm still editing a few articles, but nothing like at the beginning of this semester and internship. Thier work is fairly cyclical, especially the articles, published quarterly. So after a wave of articles and deadlines, their seems to be some slackening off. Of course books and other projects, along with general housekeeping items (and actual housekeeping), are still coming in and some are nearing completion.

One of the books that has been sent to the printer will actually credit me as "Proofreader," so that's cool for me. We got a copy of the cover to make sure everything (text too, but mainly colors and layout) was just right before they roll off 500 of these. The paper it was printed on seemed flimsier than that on a previous book of the same series, but other than that, it turned out very nicely. Again, I can't stress enough how important the littlest things are. The pdf sent to the printer had text blocks that looked very boxy, the version sent to us, though, had aligned the text sort of diagonally down one side to better match the graphics wrapping around from the front cover. It looks good and I can't wait to see it.

Matt and I were discussing how I felt the internship was coming, whether I was getting the hours I needed, whether I was learning, etc. when we started talking about what I was going to do after graduation. I told him I wasn't entirely sure, but I sort of had some things lined up (strong emphasis on sort of), and he told me they may like to keep me on as one of their freelance copyeditors/proofreaders. He said, I believe, that three of the last four interns were doing such work, in different capacities and volumes. I said that I was very interested as I have been looking into doing such freelance work over the internet. (God love the internet--I can work from a beach.) So that is very exciting for me, now I sort of (with less emphasis) have more things lined up.