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Feb. 8th, 2002 11:36 amWeee! sitting down and crunching numbers for a freelance pro-bono job I picked up. Arrgh! I love calculators. Let's see... number of kids, times number of pages... two reams of paper should do it for the text, one ream for the covers... *munches on pencil* let's see...make pretty proposal sheet for committee about the best way to bind this sucker...
I went to Staples last night to see what they could do for me as far as binding a 40+ page school yearbook. I first got a brain dead clerk that didn't know the first thing about bindery production. Then I got the manager. The Manager, who sized me up and decided that I must know nothing. She started to expound on the positive aspects of tape binding and my eyes glazed over.
I just wanted a price list, not a master's class in advanced bindery operation. She pulled out a price chart, and when suggested that I just wanted a copy of it, you would have thought I had asked her to commit sepiku. It was unthinkable that an someone not of the league of red shirts (as that's what Staple-lings are forced to wear, poor things,) could read and disseminate knowledge from her grail.
*sigh*
So I managed to get a copy of it after offering up my 23 child to the Great God Gates, and any idiot could figure it out. So here I am, being all corporate and shit.
In other freelance news, I came up with a pretty good idea for a logo for the project Pelgar proposed. Now I just have to get it down on paper. Maybe I'll get more than $20 and dinner for a design for once! Ehh... I really just need the portfolio material right now... and the more impressive and national-audience-exposed, the better.
Kinda curious what MeatHead's up to. Blew past her yesterday, but haven't talked much. I guess you could say I've been busy holding my fingers in my ears, trying not to let my brain escape. Shall give her a call, make sure she's still alive.
Well, should get my journalism homework done. *blargh* I could have lived without taking this class....
- K.
I went to Staples last night to see what they could do for me as far as binding a 40+ page school yearbook. I first got a brain dead clerk that didn't know the first thing about bindery production. Then I got the manager. The Manager, who sized me up and decided that I must know nothing. She started to expound on the positive aspects of tape binding and my eyes glazed over.
I just wanted a price list, not a master's class in advanced bindery operation. She pulled out a price chart, and when suggested that I just wanted a copy of it, you would have thought I had asked her to commit sepiku. It was unthinkable that an someone not of the league of red shirts (as that's what Staple-lings are forced to wear, poor things,) could read and disseminate knowledge from her grail.
*sigh*
So I managed to get a copy of it after offering up my 23 child to the Great God Gates, and any idiot could figure it out. So here I am, being all corporate and shit.
In other freelance news, I came up with a pretty good idea for a logo for the project Pelgar proposed. Now I just have to get it down on paper. Maybe I'll get more than $20 and dinner for a design for once! Ehh... I really just need the portfolio material right now... and the more impressive and national-audience-exposed, the better.
Kinda curious what MeatHead's up to. Blew past her yesterday, but haven't talked much. I guess you could say I've been busy holding my fingers in my ears, trying not to let my brain escape. Shall give her a call, make sure she's still alive.
Well, should get my journalism homework done. *blargh* I could have lived without taking this class....
- K.
