Anthology Progress

"Ok, I've added Adobe [on his end] and it'll take up to an hour to get to you."
-David from the Tech Office

In the process of trying to do this anthology, it’s been funny to see what kind of problems have popped up. For one, the printer prefers PDF documents, and until today, I had no way of making any. Then I called Tech help and, with minimal trouble, got him to upload/download/whatever-the-hell Adobe onto my computer via the network from his computer. Wow, mouthful. So, now I have PDF capabilities. Then, I got to do cut ‘n’ pasting for a while, then spend some time making formats consistent, then E-mail Katherine to find out which schools the 2005 TCs (Teacher Consultants/i.e. Institute Participants) are affiliated with.

The fun part is that I brought my spiffy new digital camera along today and just spent a good forty minutes wandering around campus in the wind, regretting that I didn’t have some kind of hair restraint device, and taking pictures. I took two kinds of pictures: textures and images. I’m thinking a two-layer cover design where one of my texture pictures will go from the front to back cover, and the front will be highlighted with a piece of artwork I photographed. The University likes artwork, so I got to get some mosaic pictures and one of a giant (10 ft. or more tall) paper airplane sculpture. The sculpture makes me excited, because paper airplanes fit in with writing! Hey, it’s a notebook paper airplane, so it’s even lined. The trick will be if it works. I’m not sure because there’s a lot of background to it, even if I crop. I guess I’ll just have to try it and see. Cross your fingers. I'll put up some pictures once I get them downloaded.

Another highlight of the day was realizing that the price quote I got from Fidlar Doubleday is now a moot point because I used a page count that included the 2005 essays, but not the 2006. So, we go from approx. 105 pages to 165. Whups. Still, I don’t imagine the price will be that much different (I’m really hoping not).

Special bonus: my cold is fading, a bit. I’m no longer the walking plague, though I still sound horrible. Less mucus, though, which is always good.