Union Episode 3: Let me take you down to the Union Fields Forever

Issue three is winding down, my features page on health that got cut last week is now running this week and it looks good, and Pearl likes it so it makes me feel even better. Besides still being semi-sick today's production day went very smoothly. 

I handed out my stories for the next two issues and now we look forward to our so called "rest" week where I plan to continue and start on the page that we work on after we return from JACC. That page was suppose to run this week, and is a page I am looking forward to, its on life and death and all my stories are in and I am editing them, I would like to stay a week ahead of the game, like Nicolas Cage in "Next" or the good looking teens in "Final Destinaton." 

The key to this business is to stay ahead, and that is what issue 3 has presented me: a chance to stay ahead and keep it that way. The features page should always be ahead of the game because my stories are not timely and can be assigned early. We try to think next week is a break week but its not, it is a week for us to get ahead and also next week is JACC week, so as long as I can stick to my guns, edit my stories early, and layout my page first thing next week, I should be done before my Wednesday deadline again. 

What doesn't help is being sort of sick,  you cant afford to be sick in the journalism business  because its so up to the minute and changing, you have to keep up and going. So as we continue down this long road, let me take you down to where I am going, down to Union fields where we, the editors of the Union reside.