It has been a while. Life gets busy which usually means I end up neglecting my journal entries. I am interning this summer at a company called EDAW. It has been about three and a half weeks already. They have their own in-house printing which is really interesting. It is an urban design and planning company so they print large maps and drawings. I like learning how they do it in the real world, even if it is different from what they teach us in school.
The one thing that I wish I knew how to do better before I started this internship is InDesign. Liberty only teaches Quark. The company I am at only uses InDesign and I am understanding it for the most part but have definately gotten stuck. One of the most exciting things is fixing your computer problems. Sometimes I just have to leave it and come back the next day for another attempt. I think something changes overnight and suddenly something clicks and I get this new idea and it fixes everything.
Yesterday I just realized that the building where I work in L.A. is still a functioning theatre. They still have shows there and stuff. Which answers the questions that were going through my mind last week when these girls were in sleeping bags on the side of the building when I walked into work. Duh, they were waiting for tickets. I was sort of confused because these girls were just chillin' outside of where I work. Maybe they are homeless, I thought, which is not an uncommon sight in downtown L.A.. They looked pretty well groomed so I knew they weren't homeless. All this to say that I was intrigued to find out that I work in an old theatre which makes the building even more cool.