I've been working on a book for my last editing class. The class is the capstone of the minor, and I work with a group to write, compile, and edit a book of essays and get it formatted and printed in a concise book. It's a useful thing to learn and put in a portfolio, but I'm a bit daunted by the qualifications listed for editing jobs. Most places ask for two to three years experience editing, and my only advantage is that I attend a school that offers an editing minor, which is unheard of. I just ended that sentence with a preposition, and if any future employer reads this blog, I'm afraid it will be very embarrassing; however, I think that it is good for me to write something just for fun and not have to reread it and edit it a million times. I write too many things that I have to worry about the exact language and how I'm going to hook the reader in and write a fantastic conclusion. It's nice to just write short blurbs with atrocious spelling and grammar that I know that not that many people are going to be interested in.

As much as I love this website for allowing me to write somewhat carefree, I am disappointed that it does not provide me with my favorite seriff typeface, Garamond. Yes, I have a favorite typeface. I always had trouble writing the "get to know you" sheets in different settings because they ask for things like my favorite color or my favorite food, or even my favorite rock band. With these things, I have no favorites. I don't listen to music, I like a variety of foods and colors, and my personality does not seem to be dictated by all the normal "get to know you" questions. I have provided a list of my favorites:

Favorite typefaces: Garamond, Arial, Lithos Pro. Garamond is a plain seriff font that looks so much better than Times New Roman, Arial is my favorite sans seriff font, and Lithos Pro is my favorite accent font.
Favorite laundry detergent: Tide lavender and vanilla scent
Favorite insult: queer sardonic rat (taken from a poem I read, and now I think of it every time I see a person I don't like; I just imagine them as a rat with beady eyes that glisten).
Favorite accessory: glasses (Too bad my eyesight is too good for them. When I was little, I even wore a pair of pink sunglasses with the lenses poked out so that they looked like real glasses).