Things I’d like to clarify…
1) I LOVED the color purple BEFORE I even thought about going to my alma mater. So anytime I’d like to use it or anytime I wear it, do not preface your statements with, “I know you went to <alma mater>…” because that’s NOT why I chose the color!
2) Purple is complementary to Red therefore it does not clash. In fact, I have had a number of birthday parties in which the colors were RED and PURPLE.
3) I think you’re full of shit when you say the people in the pictures have to be facing inward when laying out pictures. I don’t care that back in the stone age when you were laying out yearbook pages that’s what you’re crazy teacher told you – I think it’s bullshit!
4) I do not have time nor the desire to read every word you write.
5) I’m not going to harass volunteer cabinet members of tiny ass groups to learn they held a meeting and discussed two items. Let it be a quarterly feature. I (and they) have better things to do with their time.
6) Just because our piece of shit copier doesn’t print the colors exactly the way they look on the screen does not mean they look bad. Before you provide your opinion, look at the DIGITAL edition. It doesn’t matter what it looks like printed – IT’S AN E-NEWSLETTER!
7) Don’t waste my time telling me that I need to make changes to the table of contents, the cover, and add content to a page when I already told you that I hadn’t even done those yet. READ YOUR E-MAIL!!!! I don’t know why I bother even saying these things when I’m not going to be listened to or it’s not going to be remembered.
Whew. Okay. I think I’m good now. I could go on, but this newsletter isn’t going to redesign itself in time to still go out today.
Jessica said,
July 15, 2010 at 1:40 pm
Oh my god dude I know. There is an identical, copied-and-pasted, really long paragraph I have to include in the email with every single proof I send out that says “One-quarter inch will be trimmed from all edges and it is formatted as a booklet so the pages are in the following order and the two blank spaces are reserved for ads which we will receive on Monday and blah blah blah.” Every damn time I send that email out, I get the same exact responses back: one person says, “Duh, we know, you don’t have to keep saying that.” And three other people say, “It’s okay, but there’s a blank quarter-inch around all the edges and the pages aren’t in order and there are two weird blank boxes.”
**STRANGLE STRANGLE STRANGLE STRANGLE**