First Post

This will be the most casual blog ever. If you end up having the misfortune of stumbling upon it, I apologize for it's lack of coherence. Prepare to be non-sequitured.

I will use this blog to fulfill assignments for and write about my Technical Editing class at Oklahoma State University.

Here is a picture I took today.



Today in class I realized that I have a lot more editing experience and know-how than I gave myself credit for. I was the news editor for two semesters and a photo editor for three semesters at my undergrad and graduate school newspapers. I used to build newspaper pages. For one of my capstone projects for my undergrad English degree I designed, edited, laid out, facilitated, etc. a magazine called "Prescribe" in which my classmates wrote personal narratives and the things they learned from their experiences. I also spend a lot of time on photography, typography, design, and photoshop blogs and tutorial sites in my free time. I am proficient in Photoshop, InDesign, Word, Pages, Powerpoint, etc. and I can use Illustrator ok. I took a Visual Media design class and created a professional portfolio in which I designed a brochure, a flyer, and a business card and letterhead for a company I made up. I am a photographer of the prosumer level (people pay me to take family portraits sometimes).

Oh and I've got an idea for my big project. For class we have to edit a real person's work. I'm not a people person, and this seems like it could be daunting. However, a professor from whom I have taken a few classes is currently working on a book about internet memes and looking at them throught the Bakhtinian idea of time (or something like that), and I thought maybe she might let me edit a chapter from her book. I'll contact her tomorrow and see if that is going to happen.

So I think I'll be all right in this class. I get giddy discussing kerning, and using two different serifed fonts in one document makes my skin crawl. It should be a lot of fun.