Josey Internship Blogs

This week was my last time going back to Writespace before the summer break. I started out with some tedious online work of organizing the volunteer sheets, which took some time, and a decent amount of concentration, but was very satisfying to look at once I had finished. So I worked on that for about 45 minutes before moving on to some 'of the computer work.' On one wall of Writespace is a shelf with cubbies each containing a box with supplies. So I sorted through about fifteen of these boxes and looked for supplies that could be useful for upcoming workshops. It took about twenty minutes to go through some of these on greatly varying degrees of organization and categorization. I think I got a decent amount of supplies and as I was going through I was thinking about how for a small company like this it seems really important to keep track of things, reuse as many as you can so that you are able to save money. I finished picking things out, then took inventory of all the items ...

I went back to Writespace after just a week ready to get some more stuff done after the productive things I did last week. I started by updating some blogs on the website for Writefest. I went through and added all of the pictures and the text to make the blogs fit on the website. This didn't take too long, so after I finished these I started to fix a newsletter that was going out by picking colors. I had to choose colors for the border, header, body, and foot. This took me a while because a) I am not very good at matching things, and b) having something look nice is super important in drawing attention to it, if it's ugly people won't want to read it or look at is as much, and you also need to balance out the background colors so people can actually read the text that's on the page. So this took me a while as I tried to get everything just right, but after using adobe illustrator in design tech, I'm not terrible at putting in numbers on the color scale. So I spent ...