Work = Yay?

I start my internship today - I'm working with a Web site, www.uscfootball.com, helping with their coverage of the University of Southern California's spring football practices (the people who go to this site are that obsessed with USC football lo...

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It Never Gets Too Weird

My project for Advanced Desktop Publishing

Our final project was to do a newspaper layout. I do this nearly every week, so I decided to go wild with this one. And, um, the results are up there. We didn't have to write stories to go along with the headlines, photo captions, etc. (in fact, I'm 100% sure I'm the only person who did this), but I thought I had some pretty good story ideas and it would have been a waste to not have something to go along with them.

Anyway, uh, enjoy for about ten seconds or however long the average reader spends with a newspaper. :P

Random Post of Randomness

There's nothing coherent binding these thoughts, but they are together nonetheless. Yay!

- We've got new sins, people! I don't especially disagree that these are bad behaviors; I just think it's funny that, out of the blue, we get an announcement about addendums to the sin list. Makes me wonder how exactly they go about that process. Is it like the Oxford English Dictionary, where they update it every year with new words like podcast and blog? The article says the updated sins come from a need to "fit a global word," but globalization didn't just pop out of nowhere. I demand a better response to this burning question.

- You know how late night talk show hosts send their geekiest writers to cover segments involving anything athletic or dangerous, and then they look silly and everyone has a nice laugh? That's kind of how I felt today. I interviewed the head coach of Cal Poly Pomona's tennis teams for a profile I'm doing on her for the first spring quarter issue of our newspaper, and after the interview, she offered to hit some tennis balls with me. And, man, did I get embarrassed. An exact quote: "Why are all the balls on your side, Michael?" God, I'm rusty.

- I had a bizarre dream last night. I was in some sort of warehouse-type store and had an intense compulsion to buy all the Peacemaker Kurogane DVDs and a bunch of figures and shit. I've never even watched the show. WTF, I say. It was like that episode of Futurama where all of Fry's dreams are advertisements. Has subliminal advertising already invaded the realm of our dreams? You decide. In the meantime, I'll keep my wallet nailed shut at night.

Loony Library Loons

http://www.theotaku.com/worlds/loonylibrary

I have made a new world. I've wanted to do this for a while now, but I have zero motivation unless my failure would send another person screaming into the pits of Hell. However, tinkering with creating a billion worlds doesn't seem to be a bad idea. Plus, people like books, correct? I hope so, or this world will be a massive failure.

EDIT: This making worlds thing is kind of fun. Right now I'm toying with the idea of making a world dedicated to my experience in journalism at my school. I only have a quarter remaining, but we're making some changes and I'll be doing an internship with a sports Web site, so hopefully I'll have some fun tales to tell.

Maybe I'll go retroactive and tell some stories from earlier in the year, too. Recently I pretended to be a real journalist and covered our conference's basketball tournament (I even got an actual press pass!); there are some fun stories involved with that. Methinks this week will be a good time to start it, since my co-workers and I are heading out to a journalism get together at the Staples Center Thursday. :)

Enter the Mongooses

Uh, sort of late, but I have a world now. Yay? I'll probably update this once every five years like I do my normal blog. Good times.

Right now I am happy spring break is here. I've done so much writing for school this quarter, it is ridiculous. I only took three classes this quarter - wasn't this supposed to be easy? Methinks I shall punch school in the nutsack. Yes, that would be nice.

On the plus side, the final assignment I'm doing for my desktop publishing class is pretty much the greatest thing ever. Once I am finished, it shall be witnessed by all you lovely people. Oh yes.