01.Apr.2010 Slacking the day away…

Yup, that’s more or less what I did today. Actually no lah, it only just feels that way to me. Like I wasn’t productive enough.

So anyway, today I went to work as usual to my swanky cool office, and went to work on the design for our haus stylesheet. And it feels as though that’s all I’ve done today!

Yes, I sort of had Lady Gaga’s “Haus of Gaga” thing in my
head when I was doing this.

‘Course, design isn’t easy (I bet Melvin & Dawn can tell you that) – you’ve got to have an idea of how you want to work things out; OR how your client – in their case – wants it to be like. Luckily for me, I’ve got pretty much full control of how I wanted it to look like.

I also did my emails and helped to edit some stuff, and oh boy am I getting the hang of it. I still feel a bit unsure because in some ways, I can’t believe I’m actually allowed to edit. It’s usually the the teachers in that role. Editing and rewriting the stuff sometimes makes me feel like I’m taking advantage of the other person, and also like I’m disregarding their opinions – which does seem that way because I would be changing what they wrote.

But I’ve got to learn to get over it, since it’s part of the job. I’ve got full reigns to do whatever I want – with the condition that it looks better than it was originally. It’d be insanely cool if not for the heavy mantle of responsibility reminding me that THIS IS WORK DON’T PLAY PLAY AH YOUNG GIRL.

Two weeks have already flown by, and we’re left with only 16 weeks! (The other two are printing weeks, so they’re not included.) I don’t know how the bloody hell we’ll be able to produce a magazine and two newspapers during this period of time. It feels like there’s never going to be enough time. Time seems to be running out and I feel like I’m fighting against time.

For now, though, I don’t really want my internship to end. I enjoy working with my friends, looking forward to lunch, gossiping about our boss behind his back (Dallas alert! Dallas alert! ^^), having lunch together, and discussing different ideas for our project…

To all my friends… this one’s for you.

PS: I’ve still got that horrible feeling that I’m never gonna live past 20 or something, and that urge to do as much as possible while lots of highly graphic & morbid thoughts float around my head but… whatever.

Happy Good Friday, people!