Thursday, February 9th: I got to work in Ben's office because one of the other employees was using the intern office. Ben was out for the day, so no one was inconvenienced. Also, it was nice to actually be in a room with a view:
I was instructed to find some files that were archived on disks, from back before the office went to using a server, and copy them to one of the other employee's files, becassue they needed the files for some project.
Friday, Feb. 10th: I was scheduled to come in to make up some hours I had missed the previous week. It was a good experience because I actually got to work with other interns. The task for the day consisted of finishing up with the file archiving process that I had begun on Tuesday. Tania was there when I arrived at the office, and we got a lot of work done. We did run into a bit of a problem with a lot of the files being out of order, making it hard to properly file the new files. Tania and I made Paula aware of this, and she suggested that we just do what we could. So we did.
It was a terribly tedious task, but we got a lot done:
Tania had to leave at 10 to go to class. Bobby came in at 11. I had to show him the filing system we had set up, because he had never filed before. It was good having someone else to work with that day. I found myself to be really talkative, cracking jokes about gender roles and such. Since I had come into the office at 8 a.m., I left at around 12 to get some lunch. I didn't leave until about 2, even though I was scheduled to leave at 1, because I was on a roll and really wanted to get as much of the filing done as possible.
It turns out that Bobby had designed a poster for some kind of charity event, and his design was selected. That was very cool for him. The design wasn't that spectacular though (knowing his potential), because he had thrown it together in two hours. He's rather proficient with making gradients in Illustrator.
Tuesday, Feb. 14th: "Laissez le bons temps roullez," as the Cajuns say.. I knew it was only a matter of time before I started seeing Mardi Gras-themed projects.
Julian (I'm not sure what he does, yet) had these gift boxes that needed to have the labels placed on them. So Paula assigned me the project of printing out the labels, and cutting them out and placing them on the front of other potential gift boxes. Printing out the labels was pretty simple. I just had to open the .pdf document in Illustrator and then send it to the printer. Cutting the labels to size proved more difficult than I anticipated, however. The paper cutter was dull, so When I tried to cut the labels it skewed the sheets and gave them a horribly ragged edge. Luckily, I was able to fix this by just cutting the edges with an X-acto knife.
Disaster avoided, I finished with the labels. I also took a peek into the box that Julian had assembled as a guide.
Voila.
