Mark asked me the other day why we don't have a "couple" or "family" blog, since this is really my blog. I told him that if he wanted one, that meant he had to write in it too. He didn't like that idea too much, hehe.
I'm loving my new job as a Copy Editor for the campus newspaper, The Daily Universe. It's so nice to have a job with a purpose instead of just pretending to dust the same picture frame day after day like at the MTC. Also, I don't work with a bunch of weirdos like I did at the MTC.
Lots of people ask me, so I will explain what a copy editor actually does. While the mechanics of even a smaller paper like the DU are pretty complicated to explain (actually, I think someone told me once we have a circulation of like 18,000 so that makes us a medium-sized newspaper, but I don't know if that number is accurate), basically we get design the pages of the newspaper.
We work with a program called InDesign a lot, which I love since it was my best friend when I went to BYU-I. We place the articles on the page, add pictures, edit the articles.
Newspapers follows a format that is called AP style, which has lots of rules for how you abbreviate states, spell certain words, and use commas, among many other thousand things. On top of that, there are many rules to design--which fonts to use where, size of headlines, spacing, etc. On top of are all the annoying things that go along with working on computers, like when your dang picture won't stop stretching itself out and you can't figure out why.
It seems like a lot, but it's really not that bad. I had experience in InDesign before, and after I design my pages, at least two other people look them over and tell me what I did wrong so I can fix it. I'm loving my job, even though now every time I pick up a magazine or newspaper I am obsessing over the design and layouts instead of reading the articles!
In other news, our new apartment is awesome. We enjoy sitting on the floor just because we can--we just aren't used to actually being able to walk around without bumping into things! And we eat at an actual kitchen table instead of sitting on the couch for dinner. Weird.
