(+5) Week Twenty Nine: Day One Hundred and Thirty Seven: Tuesday, March 31, 2009

(+5) Week Twenty Nine: Day One Hundred and Thirty Seven: Tuesday, March 31, 2009

The last set of proofs arrived today. But we later discovered there are sitill five pages we have not received.

(+4) Week Twenty Nine: Day One Hundred and Thirty Six: Monday, March 30, 2009

(+4) Week Twenty Nine: Day One Hundred and Thirty Six: Monday, March 30, 2009

Today I took inventory on their intentions for 2010– who was staying in class and who wants to be a 2010 editor. Far fewer appear to be taking an open 4th than we had hoped.

The juniors and sophomores worked on recruiting posters.

Everyone else worked on the next to last set of proofs.

(+3) Week Twenty Eight: Day One Hundred Thirty Five: Friday, March 27, 2009

(+3) Week Twenty Eight: Day One Hundred Thirty Five: Friday, March 27, 2009
Yearbook Final Deadline +2

No class because of finals and the end of the quarter. But we did get nearly 50 pages of proofs yesterday.

(+2) Week Twenty Eight: Day One Hundred Thirty Five: Thursday, March 26, 2009

(+2) Week Twenty Eight: Day One Hundred Thirty Five: Thursday, March 26, 2009
Yearbook Final Deadline +2

It's our 26th anniversary. Finals day


Yearbook tradition - the toast to completion.


Editor Toast.

(+1) Week Twenty Eight: Day One Hundred Thirty Four: Wednesday, March 25, 2009

(+1) Week Twenty Eight: Day One Hundred Thirty Four: Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Yearbook Final Deadline +1

As the tradition goes the yearbook editors were not even allowed in the room during yearbook period on the day after the final deadline.

We wound up playing games the entire period. Some of Zoe's wacky games that I never can figure out. It's all in how you sell them.

Reese also called during the period to tell us the plant had not received four pdfs that we thought we had sent. Kelsey came in and took care of that and I think all is well now.

(42/317) FINAL DEADLINE Week Twenty Eight: Day One Hundred Thirty Three: Tuesday, March 24, 2009

(42/317) FINAL DEADLINE: Week Twenty Eight (r16): Day One Hundred Thirty Three: Tuesday, March 24, 2009
The Final Ascent

The FINAL DEADLINE

We worked last night until 10:15 and we are closing in on our last 21 layouts. The plan is to finish at 20:09 and then head over to Il Forno Classico for dinner. Some time in the fall they realized if they finished at 8:09 the sign could read 08-09, but even better that if they used military time the sigh would read: 20 : 09. So from that moment on we were destined to finish at 20:09 on March 24. they also were very determined to finish before the march 26 anniversary date.



Work on the 2009 sign begins

Throughout the morning we began to discover that some of the names we thought we had tagged didn't read in the index so we began double checking and hand indexing.





That Shelby face.



Zoe, editor in chief, signs first.

What a moment.

Week Twenty Eight: Day One Hundred Thirty Two: Monday, March 23, 2009

Week Twenty Eight: Day One Hundred Thirty Two: Monday, March 23, 2009

Today is the final push.

21 spreads to go.

We finally got the index were I hoped it would be on Saturday. Still need to finish the colophon. But we do have the pictures selected. Now for the captions.

All spreads are close except yearbook. Hmmmmmmmmm.

We left at 10:15 p.m.

Week Twenty Seven: Saturday (16), March 21, 2009

Week Twenty Seven: Saturday (16), March 21, 2009

Today is the final Saturday. But there is a long way to go.

I started the day with a meeting at EPC at seven to make our final decision. I bought bagels before the meeting at Noah's and still was able to get to school by 9.

The last two day have been very warm and springlike, but today has turned cloudy and windy.

Zoe, Kelsey, Lauren, Shelby, and Kim are here but it's 9:50 and still no Ellen. Typical. She finally arrived at 10:30 and then we had to rehash the senior Sport-a-Rama victory for another 15 minutes.

It is slow moving. 

21 layouts left. It's 1:09.

We just saw the first one of four spring sports left.

They took an hour break to get Jamba and to shoot some trends stuff at Lauren's I got layout number 2 (drama) at 3:15.

I have had a great day correcting all my papers.

Zoe is in the weeds.

We had dinner. Jeannine Thomas brought dinner. Ravioli Lasagne surprise. yumm.

It's now 6:42. I have seen three sports spreads, but the captions are almost all definitely CRAPTIONS.

It's now 8:45

Week Twenty Seven: Day One Hundred Thirty One: Friday, March 20, 2009

Week Twenty Seven: Day One Hundred Thirty One: Friday, March 20, 2009

T minus 4 yearbook days to go.

Week Twenty Seven: Day One Hundred Thirty: Thursday, March 19, 2009

Week Twenty Seven: Day One Hundred Thirty: Thursday, March 19, 2009

We continue to work toward the final 42 pages, but at about 11 got an email from Vera that informed us that Laura Ling from the  class of 1994 had been captured by the North Koreans at the Chinese border. She was working for current.com doing reporting there.

By the end of the day I had been interviewed by both KCRA and KXTV.




Tminus 6 calendar days/5 yearbook days until we finish on Tuesday, March 24.

Week Twenty Seven: Day One Hundred Twenty Nine: Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Week Twenty Seven: Day One Hundred Twenty Nine: Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Got a great brainstorm for the closing. To gather individual student moment of the year. The editors wrote theirs and then we field tested in m English class. Then the staff did it fourth and then we went out an gathered more around campus. Looks like it's a great idea.


Tminus 7 calendar days/6 yearbook days until we finish on Tuesday March 24.

Week Twenty Seven: Day One Hundred Twenty Eight: Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Week Twenty Seven: Day One Hundred Twenty Eight: Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Happy St. Patrick Day.

Tminus 8 calendar days/7 yearbook days until we finish on Tuesday March 24. We may have to put it off until Wednesday if I have an elder board meeting,

(26/275) Week Twenty Seven: Day One Hundred Twenty Seven:(r15) Monday, March 16, 2009

Week Twenty Seven: Day One Hundred Twenty Seven: Monday, March 16, 2009

Today is our next to last deadline. Looks like we will be sending 26 pages and bring the total of 275. This will mean we have 44 pages to go in exactly seven days.

We had a little oops. when we tried to PDF one of the spreads we did not have the correct jpegs and so it wouldn't pdf properly. We decided to hold it for the next deadline.

Reese came at four and we were out of there a little after 5.

Happy 87th birthday mom.

Week Twenty Six: Saturday (15), March 14, 2009

Week Twenty Six: Saturday (15), March 14, 2009

Today we were working together like a REAL yearbook staff. The machine was well-oiled and chugging along.

Our mission was to finish as much of spring sports as possible. We have approximately 70 pages to go and our goal is to send another 30 pages on Monday when Reese comes.

Along with the editors Zoe, Lauren, Kelsey, Shelby, Ellen, and Kim a huge bunch of staffers were actually in and working.

Delaney, Dustin, Madeline, Steven, Kailey, Jessie, Sarah N., Stacy, Phil, Allie, Josh, Hannah (12)

Girls' Soccer was actually finished yesterday as were the Varsity Baseball stories. Good work Stacy and Maddie. Swim and Dive finished next along with Boys' Tennis. Boys' Golf finished both stories on Saturday. The current trouble areas are JV Baseball, JV Softball secondary, and both Varsity Softball stories.

Allie Bell stayed and actually finished the Track and Field story. (Good job)

However some never showed up and others cut out too early.

It reminds me of the age-old yearbook maxim. Yearbook Doesn't Build Character. It Reveals It. Some people's character didn't come out too well today. But more important the character of many shone through,

The AVID BBQ was today and Shelby and Kim went to take JV Softball photos at Laguna Creek in Elk Grove..

They left for a Jamba Break at around 5.

Jamba–dinner of yearbook Champions

We left about 8:15 after it was clear we had runout of gas. Hopefully Lauren isn't getting sick. We are close, but not close enough. Monday will definitely be interesting.

Week Twenty Six: Day One Hundred Twenty Six: Friday, March 13, 2009

Week Twenty Six: Day One Hundred Twenty Six: Friday, March 13, 2009
The second Friday the 13th in a row.
Secret pal day. I got a Snapple Kiwi Strawberry, Wheat Thins and Milanos.

I also went on a rampage.

Week Twenty Six: Day One Hundred Twenty Five: Thursday, March 12, 2009

Week Twenty Six: Day One Hundred Twenty Five: Thursday, March 12, 2009

Mad rush to finish spring sports. The copy needs to all be close TODAY. We have photos for every sport except Baseball.

Week Twenty Six: Day One Hundred Twenty Four: Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Week Twenty Six: Day One Hundred Twenty Four: Wednesday, March 11, 2009
We took our group picture today. Prestige did not have some one available to take it so I got them to hire Robert to do it.


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(34/249) Week Twenty Six: Day One Hundred Twenty Three:(r14) Tuesday, March 10, 2009

(34/249) Week Twenty Six: Day One Hundred Twenty Three: (r14) Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Today was sending day 10.
We began the class with a game called "look up look down."

Heads up, Heads Down.

Kim and Delaney







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Week Twenty Six: Day One Hundred Twenty Two: Monday, March 9, 2009

Week Twenty Six: Day One Hundred Twenty Two: Monday, March 9, 2009

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Week Twenty Five: Saturday (14), March 7, 2009

Week Twenty Five: Saturday (14), March 7, 2009
Today is a crazy day. The ad section is swelling so we may actually have over 100 pages to go.

Lauren is here. Ellen came a little late but has to go to work at 1. Kelsey has still not arrived as she is at Med 7 getting her toe looked at, but she has to go to work at 2:30. Zoe came at almost ten after going by the garage sale.

Shelby and Kim are at the track meet at Bella Vista.

We got a few ads done. Even Phil got one done. Lauren is working on four spreads, but I'm not sure about the fifth. Zoe is “close” to finishing two. They are claiming that they will have 30 pages for Tuesday. We will see.

T minus 19 days and counting!

Week Twenty Five: Day One Hundred Twenty One: Friday, March 6, 2009

Week Twenty Five: Day One Hundred Twenty One: Friday, March 6, 2009

We tried to play a game but the staff wanted to work

Week Twenty Five: Day One Hundred Twenty: Thursday, March 6, 2009

Week Twenty Five: Day One Hundred Twenty: Thursday, March 6, 2009

Ads are heating up. We are over 125 now.

Week Twenty Five: Day One Hundred Nineteen: Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Week Twenty Five: Day One Hundred Nineteen: Wednesday, March 4, 2009

We finally got a hold of Reese. Apparently she is at CADA in San Diego. We plan to have her come on Tuesday, March 10 to pick up our next deadline.

We also discovered that we had placed a wrong photo in sports reference so we emailed Kathy and we submitted a new corrected page.

Week Twenty Five: Day One Hundred Eighteen: Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Week Twenty Five: Day One Hundred Eighteen: Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Today is Sport-a-Rama tryouts and the day Zoe gets to meet Bow Wow

Week Twenty Five: Day One Hundred Seventeen: Monday, March 2, 2009

Week Twenty Five: Day One Hundred Seventeen: Monday, March 2, 2009