Managing a newspaper from the airport

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Raylyn Bowers, Blogger

This week has been a whirlwind of craziness. My cousin, God love him, decided to get married on a Thursday in the middle of the semester in North Carolina. I had to move mountains in order to make it to this ceremony.

Usually I finish up all of the typesetting for the newspaper on Tuesday, layout gets finished on Wednesday and then sent to press. The newspapers are delivered to the newspaper office in the middle of the night, then labeled and delivered by me on Thursday. This week, I had to get everything for the paper finished before I could catch my flight to North Carolina. I had to find someone to deliver papers for me on Thursday, and I had to finish all of my schoolwork ahead of time.

As a kid, I remember trying to stay up all night with my friends. I thought it was a super fun way to spend a Friday night, but now as a 21 year old, I have decided that pulling all-nighters are no longer fun – they just involve a lot of caffeine. Sunday, I was up all night working and studying, Monday morning I opened the office, went to class in the afternoon, then studied some more that night before getting to sleep four hours before having to get up and start a new day.

I am incredibly excited to be able to go to this wedding, but the work that I had to do in order to be able to go is ridiculous. I would not have been able to do it without two amazing women. I convinced one of my friends to take over my Thursday work duties while I am gone. I have handed the keys to my baby over to her, and God bless her, the poor girl has to follow my three pages of instructions with no prior training, so I am praying everything goes according to plan.

The other lovely woman helping me had to follow my step-by-step instructions on how to place an ad in the newspaper while I was boarding a plane. I got a phone call to change it at the last minute, which I did, but I forgot to put it in the paper after I changed it. She also had no prior training for this type of situation, so both of these women have stepped up to the plate for me and deserve many blessings for their selfless work this week.

If this had been a normal week, I would have had everything finished early, my stress level would have been negligible, and I would have been able to catch up on some sleep. Instead, I am sitting in the Dallas airport typing this blog and praying my newspaper lives until I get back home. It is a crazy, eventful, amazing life, and I wouldn’t change a thing.