At Rodale on Wed I got to start making some headlines for the beauty feature that's going into the Feb issue of the magazine! I also got to layout all of the text and do two sidebars. They are really letting me do a lot! I love it! Its been really interesting going through the process of coming in as one issue is coming out, and then being there the whole entire process to another issue! They just officially finished January! And I cant wait for it to come out so I can see some of the work I did in print. It definitely isn't all my work, but a very collaborated effort! Today at Rodale I got to go to my first design meeting!!! Soo cool! They never usually have them on the days that I'm there so this opportunity was amazing! We had it in one of the conference rooms where there are speakers built into the table! and one of the ladies attended the conference through speaker phone! it was cool! Today I finally got to see the Editor In Chief!! I wasn't formally introduced but I got to meet her from a distance you could say! Shes really high energy and seems really nice, smart, very forward and on top of things! A few times she even multi tasked half with us half on her blackberry. She also came in with a venti sized something from Starbucks! I guess that's what it takes to be so efficient. The meeting was interesting, before the meeting Jessica had me read all the stories for the March issue which I then came up with ideas for! In the meeting I didn't say any of my ideas, because one having no idea how a design meeting was going to work there was no way i was going to go in there thinking that i had the best idea and two i had ideas but the people there had print outs of illustrators, draw pictures, not thumbnail like me so staying quiet was a good idea! But on one of the stories, the idea that i had drawn the writer described it to a T! It was reassuring that I was able to interpret the same concept that the writer of the piece was going for! After the meeting I got to start working on the new Cook section again. I got to layout a 10 page section! Ten pages!!! isn't that awesome! It is a definite ruff copy but I got to attempt it which is awesome! The pages were harder than normal because the art shot for it wasn't the best, the recipes were all way to long and the cook it was highlighting wrote like a five page novel when we only have one page of prevention size space to put her stuff in. So major editing will be going on for that one.
But today getting to read all of the March issues stories was really interesting. I learned about compounded prescriptions. Very scary and controversial stuff! I also read this story about a dad with Alzheimer's disease, it almost made me cry! I really love being in an atmosphere where I'm surrounded by pictures of healthy food, and people who live healthy lifestyles. Its a nice influence compared to my peers who order, Chinese food, pizza and whatever else they can have delivered every day. I have never wish to have a kitchen of my own so badly ever in my life. Reading the magazine makes me want to cook the delicious meals they present!!
In the Rodale kitchen area they have lots of free stuff! Anything to keep their workers happy! Its amazing though because its all organic and its all healthy! They have oatmeal, raisans, cereal, bananas, pears, WASHINGTON APPLES, which taste amazing, compared to these crap grown, new york ones in Mongoris. You just cant beat an apple grown from home! but anyways they have like ten different kinds of tea and ten different kinds of coffee, and cookies and crackers, and today they had packaged popcorn, but usually its chips. And they have a never ending supply of fresh water! I love it i drink so much water there! The only thing I've taken advantage of in the kitchen while at rodale is the apples and the water! I always buy my meals at the AMAZING Amish market down the street! truly amazing! Its really unique about living in new york is that a lot of companies have made their restaurants healthier, which cater to the fast paced new york worker, so eating out in the city is so delicious and healthy. I hate having to come back to queens and eat the stuff they serve here. And the closest restaurants being pizza coldstone, or Chinese. Its frustrating. I'm getting rid of a meal plan, instead a weekly trip to the city and so I can buy healthy food for the week!
Wednesday night I went to my first Mutual as the second counselor! It was fun and we actually had girls there! We made frosting from scratch and frosted sugar cookies, we made warm apple cider from scratch, it didn't taste very good, but i don't like apple cider so that might have been why it tasted bad! lol others enjoyed it though! I was excited because I got to see for the first time a whole nutmeg! lol I never knew what they looked like. We also carved pumpkins it was fun! the sister missionaries were there! And I found out that a year before heath ledger died they got a feeling that they needed to share the gospel with him, so they tracked him and they have a teaching record from him. crazy huh! imagine being those missionaries! But he turned us down, unfortunately other wise I bet he'd still be here today! I also learned that in serving in the new york city mission, it includes Bermuda!! Cool huh, except only guys are allowed to go. And only guys are allowed to go to Staton Island too. There are definite reasons though, one there aren't enough girl missionaries to make it a regular place for them and second the area is so small there's only two guy there anyways!
Laura our president is in cali right now, where she is from, so i teaching the lesson on Sunday. I haven't looked at it yet, so I'll probably do that tomorrow and then go buy a treat for which ever girl shows up! Hopefully at least one or two! Last Sunday I had to miss church to cheer at the last women's soccer game, but I made it at the end just in time to see that we had like 6 girls show up! its was so good to meet all the girls! After church we went and heart attacked one of the inactive girls! it was fun, except it is a little scary being in their neighborhood late at night. I found an new way to get back to St.Johns so that I'm not standing how ever long it takes for the bus to come, in a sketching alley like way street. Its more sketch the higher up in street numbers, and chilling on 170th at 9:30 on a weekday just isn't safe. Oh yeah i learned that 50 cent was shot like really close to the church lol it was like right outside where the male missionaries Used to live. Interesting! I wonder why they have the church in such a unsafe place. Maybe its to try and influence it a little! With the new building there going to start next year it will definitely make a statement! build it and they will come! Jamaica ward building will be the nicest building around outside of the city, so everyone will have to come to dances there, and group activities, It will be really good for the area!
So midterms are over and its definitely not feeling like it. I only have like 20 days left of school and I have soooo much work to do. Its so not safe sleeping 2-4 hours a night and then going to cheer practice after being up for so long, I don't know how i get through it, but its definitely not with out a cost. I'm slowly getting injured and we were doing basket tosses two days in a row which just aggravates my hand even more, thankfully it didn't hurt my ability to move my fingers, but I'm pretty sure my hands going to have a permanent bruise its never going to get a chance to heal. It sucks worse because its my right hand and I'm right handed, major damage to that and there goes my career, i wouldn't be able to do very much in drawing class, or at least make decent stuff, i guess i would get really good with using my left hand. oh well after January and maybe a trip to Florida I'll be done with cheer for good! I cant wait!
Speaking of cant wait i cant wait to go home! I cant wait to have a nice couch to lay on and watch TV, its weird not having a TV Not that i have time to watch it, I'm just so used to it being background noise though. I cant wait to see my family and my puppy dogs and watch my brother get married and see my friend go through the process of getting married and holding a wedding shower for her! Its so much fun! I love getting to catch up with all the girls! I really don't have much in common with them seeing as they all go to BYU's and don't do much outside of school and church but I like their presence and hearing how things are going! All of them are getting married, its so crazy! first Monica, then Haley and then Channing and now Courtney, I'm guessing it will be Shauna or Katherine next! lol oh well we shall see! one wedding at a time right! I cant wait for the next 20 days of Hell to get over with! Its all worth it though! People here just don't understand what being an art student means, its a lot of work and knowledge they have to stuff down our throats! Oh if your ganna go through it why not do it in new york! Its awesome having so many museums close by! Finding a time to go to them is a challenge though!
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