Down to the Wire

Things are really heating up around here. Bill wants to send the magazine to print by next week, and we're not sure if it's going to happen. Poor Bill is really stressed. I spent Thursday giving him opinions on the setup of the spreads, editing pages, looking at the new website (whose launch date had to be pushed back a week because of this magazine), trying to wrangle a professor to give us pictures. Bill eventually called one.

"Where are you?"

"About to leave the lab. Why?"

"Stay there. We'll be over in ten minutes with a camera."

And we got some pretty good pictures, too. It was kinda neat. He has an imaging lab, and to get into it, you need to step into this rotating dark chamber (so that he can use his lab as a darkroom if he needs to). It was so exciting. Bill said it felt like going into the Batcave or something.

But anyway. My biology articles will now take up six pages. It just happened that way. Bill said he didn't mind. We decided on a format, and he was putting things together as I left. I asked if he wanted me to come in Friday too, but he said no, that he'd just be working on things I couldn't help him with. So I didn't have to go in to work on Friday.

This week is crunch week. The magazine has to go to publishing, I have two midterms, then a horse show. But then thanksgiving break! I'm really looking forward to going home, since it'll be the first time I've been home all semester. I miss my family a lot.

I'll let you know how crunch week turns out.