You ever have the sudden fear that something you printed might cause people to be unhappy? I’ll post a link to the story later, but I just thought I’d say I suddenly had this irrational fear.
A fear that says someone will take a slight to a sentence that I didn’t originally intend to print, but agree that it should be said. Just maybe I/we should’ve gotten it out in a different way. Oh, well. What’s done is done.
Let’s just hope I didn’t make any factual errors…here I am afraid of people not being happy and I’ll end up making an important error or attributing something to Pres. Midgley that isn’t exactly 100% true. Because we’ve got to remember that I’m not a full time staff writer…I’m the buisness guy. I edit (a little), I used to give really good layout and layout software advice, and really am just the support guy we send in when the “normal” stuff doesn’t pan out.
Sigh. I’ve learned a decent bit about tiptoeing around things and about getting the point across while not using loaded vocabulary. The difference between reorganize and restructure sometimes means a lot.
I don’t plan to write another news article/story for the rest of my time at the Rose Thorn. Unless I really, really need to. I don’t like not being able to put my thoughts and conclusions into my writing. We caught so many things where I said something that wasn’t 100% fact or quotable. I tend to synthesize and incorporate that into things without even knowing it most of the time.
Ok…to bed now or I will be absolutely useless to Dr. 7 while trying to debug my hardware and his software.
Oh, and I had a Databases test yesterday (Thursday) and it went mediocre at best. Not happy. The test was much different than expected. It was much, much longer than the alloted 105 minutes should’ve been used to cover. Plus, he wanted us to write working nice SQL code in tiny weenie little spaces…I write too damn big to get anything useful stuck in there.
And scheduling seems to be about worked out. We’ll see this afternoon if I can make some final decisions.