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I know, this one’s a little weird and probably not for most people, but I loved being a part of the yearbook staff at school. Yes, our yearbooks were just a fraction of the size as those offered to our public school peers, but it was still a blast. It was my first experience at page layout, at getting a chance to come up with my own designs and logos (and then dealing with those designs being changes, switched, altered, edited, scrapped, and all-around bamboozled), at writing copy, and at just playing a part in creating a publication that would be printed and disseminated to an entire organization. At the time, I just looked at all these things as fun ways to spend a few hours after school. Who knew that one day I’d be doing all these things professionally? <\/p>\n

I was a member of yearbook staff for three of my four years of senior high school. Two of those years I was assistant editor. I’m still not really sure what that title translated to, but it looked great on my college applications. I also got to play photographer every now and then, which was awesome: playtime with an SLR camera, which was so much cooler than my little point-and-clicker, plus the freedom of getting out of class to attend sporting events that needed photo documenting. Who was always the big winner there? Me! <\/p>\n

See that photo at the top of this entry? That’s my old yearbook staff folder. Again, hi, I’m a hoarder. Pleased to meet you. I found this while I was sorting through stuff at my parents’ house a few months ago (see, I told you I took photos that would one day be used for Flashback Friday entries!). I also suspect that this is a photo of artifacts that some readers have probably never seen, like that pica ruler. Really? And hand-drawn page layouts and paste-ups on graph paper? Adobe InDesign sure rang the death knell quite loudly for this entire folder. Even though it wasn’t that long ago since the last time I used these tools (15 years isn’t that long, right?), looking at them now makes me laugh and think, “Did I really use all this stuff? Really? And why the hell do I still have these things? Wasn’t I supposed to return them at the end of the year?” <\/p>\n

Tsk, tsk. So if my yearbook teacher ever reads this post, just drop me a line and let me know where you’d like me to return these things. I’ll be sure to mail them off as soon as I can… \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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