Showing posts with label Extracurriculars. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Extracurriculars. Show all posts

Monday, September 20, 2010

OPEN CALL for Yearbook Design Assistants!!

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WANNA MAKE YOUR YEARBOOK MEMORABLE AND AWESOME-LOOKING?

Details below, folks! (OR, click here for a high-resolution printable PDF file.)


Graphic Advisors: You'll be previewing the Yearbook to check for design mistakes and other details


Graphic Designers: You'll be creating designs to decorate our Yearbook with. Digital artists only, please!


Why would we want people to help with Graphic Design? There are a few reasons:
  1. There are about 140 pages in the Yearbook. Most of the time, these pages are not cohesive and, as a result, look really unprofessional. It is realistically impossible for two people to go through every page and check for design flaws on top of regular course loads and other extra-curriculars.
  2. You people are brilliant. The more minds = better product. The more Feedback we can get on the Yearbook before it gets out, the more we can improve it.
  3. We aren't pure-Photoshop experts. Yes, we love arts and crafts and we like to format and design things but at the end of the day, we are only mixed media artists. We can't use just Photoshop to create magnificent Text Art and other graphics from scratch.
  4. The Yearbook needs people to make it cohesive. I know there are people who just can't stand the look of something unprofessional. I bet some pages in the Yearbook just grind your gears. So make it better. Make it awesome. Join us.


Thursday, September 16, 2010

Nine to Five

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Tumble out of bed and stumble to the kitchen;
pour myself a cup of ambition,
and yawn, and stretch, and try to come to life.
Jump in the shower, and the blood starts pumping;
out on the street, the traffic starts jumping,
with folks like me on the job from nine to five.


--"Nine to Five" by Dolly Parton



0900 Weeks have turned back to that old 9am-to-5pm routine.

1000 Days blur together, with the exception of Days 1, 2, 3, and 4. No days end in "Y" anymore.

1100 Spares mean working so there's less work to do later.

1200 After school is put aside for extra-curriculars. Lunches are used to maximize productivity--sometimes. Friday Night is Oriental learning time.

1300 Library books pile up as they are neglected in favour of textbooks, WikiPedia, and English required reading.

1400 Getting home means time to wash. Sleep. Study. Eat. Study. Sleep.

1500 There's a pattern somewhere. Clocks tick. Birds chrip. People walk. Something's turning.

1600 Music is getting repetitive. Suggestions?

1700 Social potential. Emotional potential. Mental potential. Physical potential. It's in you to give.

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Today, I knew what it felt like to be dressed in casual all-black with too much smudged liner, a funky drawing on my face, and my vision further blurred by a curtain of hair. The photographer was funny, though.

Today, I woke up at 8.04 am because I forgot to sleep extra last night.

Today, I realized I've lost my calculator and my glasses.

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Everybody's working nine-to-five, so let's dress to the nines tomorrow and let the good times roll from till the clocks strike five. Everyone should take a moment to stop caring.

--Sleepasawrus.



They let you dream just to watch them shatter;
You're just a step on the boss man's ladder,
But you've got dreams he'll never take away.
In the same boat with a lot of your friends;
Waitin' for the day your ship'll come in,
And the tide's gonna turn, and it's all gonna roll your way.


--"Nine to Five" by Dolly Parton