May 27

I was sooo busy yesterday that I forgot to blog...anyways heres what I did.
Both of my stories that had been edited...have been lost so I emailed them to Ieysha and Sarah and helped them edit them. My quotes that were on Sarahs old computer..are gone but luckily I saved that email so I was able to get those, and help Ieysha put them on. Then I just helped them in the lab deciding what quotes go where, and what we needed to do for the layout. It was a very productive day, and because there was so much stuff missing that, out of the kindness of my heart, I helped find them.

May 21

Today was a productively frustrating day. I re wrote my stories after both Sarah and I deleted the email I sent....and I probably saved it as something stupid and I couldn't find it. So it's my fault, but never the less, still frustrating. I re wrote them and I thought they were fabulous. I just wanted someone to make sure that they were acceptable enough for the group, as I want this magazine to be the best Best of Indy magazine ever made. It just hit me how hard it is to make ONE magazine...and it's taking us this long. I know we're making it pretty darn fantastic, but it puts it into perspective of how hard real life journalists work.
Apparently I use awesome too much...so i've been trying to back off doing that. That was wrong with most of my stories last time.
Bye LaMags!

May 20

My pictures were not good enough, so yesterday I went and took 200 more. I went to Eagle Creek, and because it was raining, all of my pictures were taken from inside the car but they all look really cool. I also went into Golds Gym again, and took more pictures there. It feels SO awkward doing that just because of the looks people gave me. :(
Today, I finished up anything Sarah wanted me to, and posted my pix on student shared. Because most of my work for this project involves going to other places, I did homework most of the block except when they needed my assistance.
Things are going smoothly and I think they are happier with my new pictures!

May 19th

Well, I have all my pictures taken now. They're on the student shared drive, so Keaton gets to keep his left arm. I have all my stories turned in too, I'm pretty proud of myself. Taking pictures at the gym was kind of awkward because people looked at me weird, some people even posed on their machines and told me to take pictures of them. One guy asked to see the picture, and told me to delete it because, even though it wouldn't be published, he was pulling the weirdest face ever.
I'll make sure that our group won't edit the pictures, or put peoples heads on naked bodies. I wouldn't want any 'unfortunate lapses' to ruin my grade. My group seems sensible enough though, so you don't need to lose any sleep about us! :)

May 15

Well, I edited my stories and Sarah said "Very good, nice job!" That made me feel pretty good about myself. I didn't do anything else, I'm almost done with my pictures I just have to go to Eagle Creek, and with Rugby and everything I just havn't had time! But I will get it done this weekeend, I swear on...Keatons left arm.
I didn't do anything else to be honest. I watched Amelia hit Simon...that gave me another laugh.
I'm just in a really good mood, the rugby team beat Carmel yesterday and IT WAS SO COOL. I know that has nothing to do with publication but it was still awesome, and thats why my blog is happy.
Again though, our group is doing fantastically! Almost everything is done!
I managed to stay in this good mood even though Johnny got his gun puts me a silly mood after I read it because of how fantastically horrible it is.
Bye LaMags!

May 13

To be honest, today wasn't productive at all for me. I have already written all my stories, and I have all my pictures of the gyms, I just need to go to Eagle Creek now and I'll be done. The one minute clip of the show was watched....actually inspired me. I have never really thought about how important it was until that, or the impact that journalism does have on the world. It's really cool. I'm going to take this project much more seriously, and although I was still doing everything I had to, I'm going to make it even better!
Sarah seems confident that we will get everything done on time, and as long as we keep hitting our deadlines we'll have a great piece to turn in!

may 12th

Today I wrote my stories for the gyms. I have pictures of Golds and Cardinal, and i'm going to get the rest tonight. I made my plan of how I am going to do it too. The group seems to be working great together, and everyone seems to have a plan of what to do. I was so busy writing my stories that I didn't even blog until now! I'm sorry.

Day 4. Friday

Today wasn't very informative for me. Our editors went into the lab, and I got some of my due dates for pictures and stories clarified. All of my stories have to be in by the 19th and the pictures have to be ready just as soon as I can. I'm probably going to have all of my pictures done by the 16th at the latest. We have a few people missing, so today wasn't as productive as it could have been. We are still on track though, and i'm going to take pictures this weekend to stick to my goals.

Day 3. Thursday.

We made a calender to organize ourselves today. I picked out days when I am going to have my stories and my pictures in by. The group also decided that it seemed silly for some people to visit restaurants and not take pictures, so instead of sending two people to the same place, whoever visited it would take pictures. So now the photographers are going to write the stories for their places and the writers would take pictures for their places. I really like this because it evens out the work, and i've been to all of the gyms I have to take pictures of so writing the stories would be really, really easy. I also have to take pictures at eagle creek park and I have been there before.
Everyone seems content with their works and we are on track for a stellar magazine!

Day 2

Today we assigned the positions for our group. I'm going to be a photographer! It should be pretty sweeeet. I'm taking pictures of Cardinal Fitness, Golds Gym, Anytime fitness, and some restaurants, parks, or hang out places. We also made our plan about who is going to do what. I think it's going to work out very nicely. Our group works very well together. I'm sure our spread is gonna be pretty sweet.
I helped out today by aiding our group in assigning positions and saying what places i'll take my fab pix.

Day 1

We talked about the topics that we want to do for our magazine. We decided on the best gyms, hang out spots, restaurants, and maybe parks (we're still deciding how possible that is)
I want to be a photographer for this. I think it'd be a lot of fun and it'd be nice to get out. It'd be pretty cool to take pictures at a lot of the cool places we decided on.
I'm pretty excited about our group and I think we're going to work very well together. Each of us have had a lot of good input and great ideas!