Full office

Seems like all my Tuesday posts are about the Accent office.  Forgive me, interesting things have happened there in the past few weeks.  Besides there's only one week left of the Accent after today, so you won't have to read about it for too much longer.

Today Andrea came in and told us that there would be a group of people coming in to look over our shoulders and watch what each of us does - her next year staff.  She had told them that they should come around 8 or 8:30 since that's when most people are in the office.  Usually that's true for me, but tonight was Jonathan's bass recital so I had to leave before 7:30 and run to the music building.  I didn't get back to the office until just after 9, and by then it was filled with students who are in News Reporting right now (and one graphic design major).  They had taken all the extra seats in the office and were sitting in a circle (some people were even sitting on the floor) in the middle of the office.  I grabbed a page off the board and started reading through it standing up.  But that got uncomfortable really fast so I went out to the student center and pushed one of the chairs into the office, making it more crowded.  Anyway, the point is that we usually have six or seven people in the office at a time, but tonight there were six extra bodies filling the not-really-huge room.  It was pretty cramped.  And then the next year staff were having a big discussion about who else they should get for the positions that weren't filled yet.  It was kind of hard for us current staff to communicate with each other.  And also hard to objectively look at the news articles since most of the people in the office had written them and were listening for any hints about what we thought of them.

After most other people had left, the potential next year news editor stayed around to ask me all about my job since I wasn't around earlier when he'd first come in.  So I had to stop editing and tell him about that, which was fine but meant I couldn't leave as early as I thought I'd be able to.  Oh well, I'm glad that Andrea's getting her team together now and having them come in and talk to us.  I wish I'd had that opportunity last year because then I wouldn't have just come in cold at the start of this school year.  I'm really curious what the Accent will be like next year with all these sophomores running the operation (well I guess they'll be juniors by then).  OK, I'm done now.

Almost.  Just wanted to add that Jonathan's recital was great.  It's always interesting to hear bass solos cause you usually just hear them play in orchestras on jazz ensembles.