I just spent the last 8 hours finishing the assembling process for my school’s literary magazine, but still have to put it into a publishing program at school because the advisor insisted on it. What I just finished is a physical copy of everything in a presentable fashion that has been typical of our magazine for the time it’s been running. Also, the computer thing is going to take two days to do, and my advisor calls my house to tell me information I already know because she thinks I can’t possibly remember anything when I’ve proven to her that I am more capable of handling things than she is.
[sub]Maybe I should’ve started all this in the Pit. I’m too tired and lazy to copy and paste everything tonight. I should’ve gone to bed hours ago, especially since I rotted my brain this morning with the AP english language and composition exam. But anyway, here goes…[/sub]
My advisor for literary magazine is dumber than horse excrement. She tells us two weeks before the deadline that we need the stuff to be at the publisher’s by Monday when it takes about two months to sort and compile everything into a perfect little package to go to the publisher. This isn’t the first time she’s done something stupid like this… first there’s the issue of our only fundraiser that normally makes us more than enough to cover publishing expenses: the Valentine’s Day rose sale. We normally allot two to three weeks for the kids at our school to place orders. This is because no matter how many times you tell them, a lot of people will not remember until it is right in their face for a week straight. She, of course, decides that we only need two days to do this, and insists that we don’t start selling until we have all the order forms on pink paper, which is not only impractical, it’s illogical due to the lack of pink paper on campus that day. She also sent in the only copy of last year’s issue to the publisher to have it published, but somehow the instructions got botched so it sat in the publishing office for about 3-4 months just collecting dust. That issue got scrapped and some of the material was put into this one. It seems that at least we deserve to be given a supervisor who has a clue about what a literary magazine is about and knows a little bit about writing from personal experience and can do fundraising without problems. Of course, it’d be nice if this person was also competent and understoood what was going on and wouldn’t be condescending to us as if we had no clue what we were doing when we’d been running this magazine for two years without an advisor. At least I’ve arranged for us not to have her as an advisor next year and have someone competent replace her. I made specific suggestions on who I’d like to be an advisor who has time for it.
Now to wait for the emails I have to send myself to go through… this is taking forever.