The last week in college has been absolutely arduous! All those of us in the Design team of the Department Magazine would agree that we never noticed when Monday turned into a Friday, as we were all attuned to the many whims and tantrums of Corel Draw. There were a few "inexplicable, incorrigible and illogical" circumstances... Owing to these, we had to complete the page settings for over 70 pages of the inaugural issue within four days so that all that the printer would have to do is press "Print".
Nevertheless, it was quite an adventure! All those late nights and attending classes the morning after, yawning through the lectures, the phone-calls exchanged every few minutes to be told the latest "bad news", squeezing work into the meagre lunch hours and rare off-periods, and for me, working all night and stopping only when my alarm rang the next morning to go and brush, to make the rescheduled deadline... they're experiences that I am not likely to forget! I'm also fairly certain that my friends won't forget how the sleep-deprived me started humming the Godfather theme really loudly while plodding through the last-minute proofreading, or how I suddenly started laughing hysterically and wouldn't stop, or how they actually had to drag me away from the laptop and restrain me so that I'd rest for a little while.
Funnily enough, I found it all quite fulfilling. I mean, I know that I get obsessive compulsive about margins and measurements and the alignment of borders, yet, it felt good to know that I had had a hand in creating something that represents our years in the department. And it also felt great that when all of us were put to test, we succeeded. Now the rest is up to the printer and whatever power makes the world tick. We've done our job, in spite of it being impossible!
Right now, it is time to catch up on some lost sleep and stop dreaming of being choked by pages of the magazine. And perhaps, to recall ridiculously hilarious auto-rides through the narrowest of lanes, where we narrowly missing having blobs of meat flung at us!
6 comments:
"I know that I get obsessive compulsive about margins and measurements and the alignment of borders" --- THIS IS SO YOU!
Nevertheless, hats off on a job well done, good ma'am. Now, if you could only go sleep for a solid 12 hours more...
Oh, also, you actually ended up making a blog post (or at least a post-sentence) on the auto ride xD
Kaz: Well! We did our best, you see. :P *keeps fingers crossed*
And yes, the auto-ride! Good heavens! That needs to be experienced to be believed... SRSLY!
AND YES I'M GOING BACK TO SLEEP NOW! :P
Margins and measurements.
Now where had I last heard that?
Hah, reminds me of my PG days when I was designing my team mag. My whole team bitched out on me while designing and I didn't even have a computer. Had to work on borrowed comps. Those were the days.
Coral Draw can be a bitch at times.
N
Luci: A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away.. :P
N: Indeed! But we had a pretty cool launch and everything worked out fine in the end. My cover looks bee-you-tee-ful too! :D
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