If my life were a musical

[theladyrose]

...this would be the time when I'd start tap dancing and breaking out into my happy solo.

I just got asked to be the editor of Counterpoint Weekly, the school weekly paper I first joined in 6th grade. When I was first approached by Cece and Joyce, the current editors, I thought that they wanted me to write an article this week, which would've been rather inconvenient for me. When they offered me the position, I felt awake for the first time all day. I've been in a sort of vague semi-awake semi-asleep state all day, possibly because of jet lag. I've been looking forward to editing Weekly ever since I've been writing; it's probably the one activity I've dedicated myself to for the last seven years. I'm really grateful and feel so lucky that I've been considered for the position. I've found that what I love the most about the paper is finally having some creative control and having a lot more input over content and style. I've done my apprenticeship of sorts already; I know about brainstorming, layouts, deadlines, and the like from last year, and I definitely feel comfortable with taking it on again next year. Now all I have to do is find some more people on the editing staff; if you're interested in writing/editing/helping out in other ways, please tell me. Sophia expressed interest, as did zedhaus though I'm not sure if you were joking or not. I'm not sure about what's going on with the entertainment editor/movie reviewer position for next year, so I'll have to talk to Cece and Joyce about that. Perhaps I can still write for Counterpoint Monthly as well; I don't want to abandon that.

And now that I'll actually have taken a journalism class by next fall, I'll actually sort of know what I'm doing. After the sinking ship that was the paper two years ago (and I do admit that I helped let the paper reach the depths that it did), I really want to revitalize the paper and come up with some new ideas for content. If any of you have any suggestions, please do tell me. Now it actually seems possible for me to do my own column...but I'll think about that later.

Oh, and congrats to Kerstin on being asked to edit Moch, the literary magazine, next year!

HGTTG quotation of the day: "Please excuse me; I'm terribly happy."

Comments

[horosha.livejournal.com]

One of my fav songs...

But yes, I am, of course, rediculously proud of you. Congradulations! It's about time this Counterpoint thing got a decent editor on its staff. If you ever need any freelance articles/movie reviews/political rants, let me know. I keep a running dialogue of political commentary in my head.

[theladyrose.livejournal.com]

Now that I'm free of the reign of the terrifying, ridiculous Clam I might be able to do more interesting things with the paper, preferably have more student commentary in it. I'd be happy to have you as a guest writer, but I'll also have to start playing around with new print paper sizes and figure out what the content is first. I've got a couple of months to figure out what I'm doing, so I'll get back to you on that. Your satirical bit about the history of the Constitution was quite popular :) I can't seem to find it right now, though.

eep!

[(Anonymous)]

I have already talked to you but CONGRATULATIONS!!!! We all knew you deserved it! And as for the paper two years ago...um...it certainly led to some very interesting and memorable experiences if not altogether good. heee. the box. and I, for one, was certainly not joking about being interested. I am quite interested especially in editing which I much prefer to the writing itself. Even if I'm not an "editor" you should still let me edit the ocasional article. but again, congratulations!
-me

Re: eep!

[theladyrose.livejournal.com]

Eeee! I know! Still, we did have some good times with Caitlin even during the dark days of Clam the Dictator of Boxland. You know, we never did come up with that totalitarian regime thing for her...

And having you hang out in the box during editing sessions is always good.

[latina-business.livejournal.com]

Congratulations hun!

And... if you still need people to be on the staff.. I would be VERY interested in working on it with you.

Anyway,
CrWr was fun today, don't you think? Yes, well, we should have more classes like it.

see you later!

[theladyrose.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Are you interested in writing or layout or something else?

And our anarchist CrWr class was great. If only we could be more easily distracted more often with Ingrid's love life :P

[latina-business.livejournal.com]

Definately Writing..

and,
I cannot tell you how much I agree with you about CrWr... we should spruce up our CrWr class with people's various social lives more often. :-)

[zedhaus.livejournal.com]

Me? Dedicated staff member? I'm going to have to go with "no." But, in any case... All hail the great PUMPKIN HEAD!

[theladyrose.livejournal.com]

You know, I really like the idea of calling people pumpkins and zucchinis and the like. If Lynch were still faculty advisor next year, I think he'd rather like being called the Almighty Squash.

[zedhaus.livejournal.com]

I like Almighty Squash. Good ring to it.