The Intern Apprentice
by Jan Galligan
Today is my high-school student’s, last day. He’s been with us for the past eight weeks, starting the day before I left for vacation.. As a part of his assignment the school requires him to write a daily diary. Here are some excerpts:
Journal: 7-12
Because Jan is on vacation, I am working with Bob (the bookie). He showed me the mailroom. We went there three times. Then he showed me the xerox room, two times.. After lunch - cheese pan pizza from Pizza Hut - I returned and played with the computer. With two hours left Bob and I had to make copies on special paper. The copier kept jamming. We finished and with fifteen minutes left in my work day I once again sat down and played with the computer.
Journal: 7-24
Went to the mailroom. At least I don’t get lost anymore!. Had to make a picture look better by stippling it. I watched the printer make seven copies of a thing that is too hard to explain. Then Jan and I had to send files from one computer to another. While this happened, Jan took lunch to his daughter and I went to lunch and had a turkey sandwich…
Journal: 7-26
Brought lunch but as I was almost done eating (outside) it started to rain… Finished another project and now I have nothing to do. I guess I’ll wait for Jan to come back…The rain ended up being a downpour. Now, I get to go around and shoot video of water damage.
Journal: 8-9
When I came back from lunch I played some solitaire until Jan showed up.
Journal: 8-14
Today I scanned in thirty-four images and then after lunch adjusted their levels and cropped them down to a manageable size.
Journal: 8-21
Scanned an image of a dog for my friend and transferred it to the 486 to put it on disk. Then went to lunch. Jan said the projects for this week are already done. That means its going to be slow. That’s right, FINAL WEEK. Hopefully he can find me something in animation.
Journal 8-23 (Last Day!)
Today is International Day. I had fried dough, then I had a Strawberry-Banana shake… Jan showed me how to use Netscape to search the WWW for information about animation. That wasn’t very successful. Now I’m just hanging around.
