Bringing In the Season

What season is that? Copy editing season. Today marked the beginning of the end of my social life and normal amounts of sleep. The paper begins and I am sitting at my desk, waiting for stories to come in.

I wrote a column this afternoon which will appear in the school paper I work for and I am sort of excited. Writing a column allows you to do ... what I am doing now ... but put it in print. Obviously it is not a printed blog and must have a point and be aimed at the targeted audience.

But having a column, something I can call my own piece of territory for that day of the week is fun. The thought of people, possibly, looking forward to something I have to say. Sure, there is the flip side of the coin, someone could grow to hate the person I am, and make threats based on my opinion.

The hardest part of writing the column might have been coming up with the name. It is what people identify you with, sometimes more than your name and picture. You can tell people what you think about almost anything and hear what they have to say. The idea for this type of writer-reader communication is fun.

Tomorrow I will see how the advisor's took to my first piece, which I would call ... last minute to say the least. I came in and because of a technology error, found out I was going to write a column. Although it was not my best work, I know that for future columns I can do better and in hopes of getting people interested in what I have to say, I will have to.

Even though I have a position where I read everything, I feel as if my writing is not up to par, and the lack of writing over the summer might have aided in that, but the more I read the better writer I will become. Maybe I will read some Faust or maybe some Faulkner. Who knows.

Anyway, house update: My roommates and I have moved in and unpacked most of our things. One of our roommates is moving in tomorrow and Tuesday, which is confusing because school starts tomorrow. However he does it, we will see.

As for tonight, maybe I will open up my new bottle of Gray Goose and toast to finishing the first issue of the paper ... if we finish it before a reasonable time.

Tomorrow Comcast is coming to install the Internet and cable to our rooms, which is nice because we have been without since the middle of last week. Oh how desperately I need the Internet on a daily basis. Anyway, I must get back to work, before I fall behind my time table.