Book Binding

 23 May 2023                                                                  2:32pm Blog #14 Today I slept in a little because I am getting sick, but got to work at 9:00, writing and reflecting on graduation and my time at P roctor, till 12:00. I wrote four pieces in three hours and it really helped my see life after proctor. Then headed to advisory to check in with Shauna, just recapping the project and making sure I have checked all my boxes. Then I visited Corby and checked in with him, then Heidi, then headed to lunch. After lunch I headed to the OC and said hi to all the mountain kids and caught up with Jeff. Which made me miss mountain so so much. Now I am writing my blog before I head to the gym. Last blog :(( Bye thank you for reading! Daily : 3 Total : 66

22 May 2023                                                     2:20pm Blog #13      Today I woke up and got to work by 8:30. Since I am done binding, and the book is finished I decided to spend these last todays writing again. I want to spend some time returning to my roots of just scripting my thoughts in my notebook. We graduate this Saturday, which feels crazy. Proctor has been my home for so long and has deeply shaped who I am, so I need to spend sometime processing and figuring out how I feel about it. So I wrote from 8:30 to 12:30, collecting my thoughts with ink. Maybe they will go into my next book, or maybe they will be forgotten and buried but either way they are helping me process the next steps of my life. Daily : 4 Total : 63

 Week Two Reflection     This week went off without a hitch. On Monday I finished editing fully and laid out everything with proper formatting to print correctly. Then on Tuesday I bonD my first copy, then edited it, finding a few mistakes and fixing them to begin making final copes to give to family and friends. Wednesday I bond two copies before our tennis match vs Exeter. Then Thursday bond three more and Friday three again, finishing Saturday with another two.      Overall this week was good. I started really excited to learn how to bind and begin the process, yet once I did it, it got boring. Tuesday and Wednesday were fun, learning the process, finding tricks, and having a hardcopy of my book was very gratifying, but on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, I got sick of the repetition and was ready for something new. To balance the borden and get moving again as my knee will along I have been biking a bunch and reading but I am not quite sure what to do Monday and Tuesday.      I thin

 20 May 2023                                                     4:47PM Blog #12 Last day of senior project, today I slept in a little till 9:00, then got to work bonding two more copies. I got them done, then organized who I am going to give copies too and now I am still in the process of deciding if I want to send a copy to a publisher. Overall the past two weeks have been amazing, it is so gratifying to have really written this book, and truly proved to myself that I could be a writer. Although I really enjoyed the writing, I do have to be honest about the binding. I do enjoy having a hard copy that looks nice and can be put on a shelf or given to family and friends to read but I would rather not bind books again. The process is to monotonous, the first one or two figuring it out was fun but after that I was done. Today in total I worked from 9:00-11:00. Daily : 2 Total : 59/55

  19 May 2023                                                     4:41pm Blog #11 Today I woke up and headed to the library by 8:00. I printed out three copies and began binding. I have found that the binding process is really boring after 10 copies so I switched up the order, which didn’t help much. So first I made the hard covers, then sowed the pages, then glued everything together. It took till 12:00 to finish these three copies then I went for a bike ride after lunch. I biked up the bike of the ski hill, then down the enduro trail and did a lap of the a loop adding up to a little under six miles and 700ft of elevation. Today it total I worked for 4 hours before biking than hanging out with friends. Daily: 4 Total : 57

  18 May 2023                                                     7:23pm Blog #10 Today I woke up and decided that I didn't want to spend all day in the library again, so I headed to the field house. I printed three copies, then headed back to dorm to bind from 8:30-12:30. I got three copies done and I realized that although I can write all day, everyday, the monotonous pattern of binding gets boring after a few copies. So after lunch I decided to go mountain biking, I got 8.20 mils in with 1,059ft of elevation climb in an hour or so. I am definitely realizing that I have lost my climbing pace since our last race in the fall. But happily my knee/meniscus didn't bother me at all during the ride, although once my body cooled down my knee was definitely sore, but not swollen so all good. In total I worked from 8:30-12:30, so I got four hours in. Daily : 4 Total : 53

  17 May 2023                                                                 9:42pm Blog #9      Today I got to work by 8:30, I headed to the library to start binding. I bond two books today, the first one took me from 8:30 - 10:30. Then the second one only took me from 10:30-11:30. After I got those two copies done, I headed back to dorm then lunch. After a quick sandwich I headed to the trainers to met Mel to prep for our match, then headed to Exeter. At our match, although we got sweep and need to have a long discussion with Gregor on why he scheduled that match after the final tournament. we got tres locos on the way back. I got a good nap so overall it was a good day. Daily : 3 Total : 49

16 May 2023                    7:04 pm Blog #8 Today getting out of bed was harder than usual so I didn’t get to work till 8:30. I headed to the library and printed the final edit. I started binding my first copy and after some trial and error I got it done by 12. Then I headed to lunch then back to dorm for a quick nap. I woke back up by 1 and got right back to work. I read the whole book, finding some minor errors and correcting them in my lay out. Tomorrow my plan is to start binding copies for others, hopefully get one done tomorrow before our match then aim for a couple a day after that. Today I worked from 8:30-12:00, then 1:00-3:00. Daily: 5.5 Total: 46

  15 May 2023                                                   6:42 pm Blog #7      Today I woke up and got to work by 8:00am. I started by going through the doc Shauna and I share and fixing all the corrections she made, then I headed to the library to print. I laid out section three and four than printed. After I headed to lunch to get a quick salad rap(the dhall's salads have been amazing this week). Then I headed to westie, and started the final full read through. From 12:30 - 3:00, I read through the entire book, fixing punctuation, added some things, removed something, finalized page numbers, and layout so it is ready to bind tomorrow. Today I worked from 8:00 - 12:00 then 12:30 - 3:00. Tomorrow my plan is to print and finally start binding. Daily: 6.5 Total: 41.5      

14 May 2023                                                    7:48 pm                     The first week of senior project has been very successful. Although I have not perfectly met all my goals, I am almost there and overall I feel like the project has been very achievable. I started off the week collecting all the pieces I wanted to use and typed them up into a doc, from there I organized how I want to layout the book, deciding to have four sections. After that I organized all the writings, into which section they belong in along with the order they should be in. I then took longer than planned to lay out and edit it to print.     Right now all the sections are written and ordered, the first two sections are printed and in final editing from Shauna, while section three is edited but not ready to print, and section four in is editing. My plan originally was to be ready to bind tomorrow yet I will probably start binding Tuesday, giving me tonight and tomorrow to finish editing and

  13 May 2023                                                                  8:29am Blog #6      Today I am writing my blog early because we have the Lakes Region Tournament!! This morning I got to work by 8:00, I am going to work till 10:00, before I have to leave to head to Brewster, at 10:30. Since I can not play, my plan today is to print out everything I have done, and intensively edit when I have time. I am also printing out a copy for Shauna, my mentor, to edit too. Today, if I have wifi, I will edit my blog to show my hours total for the day, but if I do not have wifi at the courts I will make sure it is updated by Sunday at 8pm. I will also make a note when it is updated with correct time. Wish the team good luck at the tournament today, it's going to be long, hot, and so fun!!! Update, at the tournament I worked on editing and organizing from 1:00-3:00, finishing my third section. Hours: 4.5 Total: 35

12 May 2023                                                      2:52pm Blog #5      Today when I woke up at 7:00, I looked outside and saw clouds, deciding that the day can wait another hour. I finally got to work at 8:00, and headed to the library to sort out how to print everything order, because I 100% did it wrong yesterday. After figuring out, three hours later, how to invert, flip, and jigsaw it all, I got my first chapter printed, then head lunch and headed back to dorm. At dorm, I organized the lay out of the book, deciding to have four sections, I chose which pieces to put in each section, and ordered them. Then I  did two read throughs finalizing wording, length, aesthetic. For today I worked from 8:00 - 12:00 then 12:30 - 3:00, putting me at six and a half hours total. Now I am headed to the courts fro practice than the gym to do pt and work out. Daily: 6.5 Total: 30.5

11 May 2023                                                     1:12pm Blog #4       Today I woke up and dragged myself out of bed, to start working on my project by 8:00 am. I headed outside, to lay on a blanket in the field behind Westend and sat in the sun as I wrote six more pieces to use along with something I wrote when I was six that my grandmother sent me, before lunch, putting me at a total of fifty pieces. When is got too buggy and I realized I was to pale for the UV level, I headed for lunch. I got a quick sandwich and headed to dorm to start organizing. It took me an hour to figure out how to lay everything in slides so I can print it double sided and it will be ordered perfectly. Once I figured out the strategy, I laid out the first section so now I am going to finish editing it, make everything spotless, then I will try to  print  it and see how it goes. I have worked from 8:00 - 1:00 at this point and plan to work till 3:00 before heading to the trainers/ gym then tennis

10 May 2023                                                                    6:16 pm Blog #3     Today I woke up to get some hours done, before our away tennis match @KUA, I woke up at 7:15am and got to work by 7:30. I finished getting all my previously written writings into my doc and began writing more pieces to include. I wrote five different piece, through I might only use two or three of them, I also created a slide show which I will organize to print from. I also received my binding supplies in the mail, getting my very excited to start. This all took me till 12:00, when I headed to lunch than the trainers, before heading to our match. At our match we lost, but put up a good fight and had an amazing time. Now I am headed to Sosa's signing!!! Today I logged four and a half hours, putting me at a total of seventeen out of fifty five hours total.  Daily Hours: 4.5 Total : 17

 May 9th 2023                                                  11:45 am Blog #2      Today I headed to the library in the morning, starting at 8:30, I wrote to my mentor, updating her on my progress and plan thus far. Then I got to work, copying down my Ocean writings, as of right now I have gotten though twenty two out of twenty four of them. This puts me at a total of forty five collective pieces of writing, between Mountain and Ocean. Before lunch I plan to finish copying down all the Ocean pieces and organize what other writings I want to include. Along with deciding how much more I am going to write and how I will formate everything. Then tomorrow writing and editing more, starting to organize and finalize everything. Today I worked from 8:30 - 12:00, then 12:30 - 2:30. This will mean I worked on my senior project a total of five and a half hours, putting me at a total of twelve and a half hours total for this week. Thank you for reading! Daily Hours: 5.5 Total : 12.5

 8 May 2023                                                                                                                             2:23 pm Blog Entry One           Today my alarm went off a seven thirty, waking me up for the first day of senior project. At eight o'clock I started working, first I wrote my mentor, the lovely, Shauna Turnbull letting her know what my plan was for the day and creating a main doc to share with her, to spend my first week working from. Then I began working, I rounded up all my scattered notebooks and headed to a sunny picnic table to start organizing. First I decided that I will copy down my Mountain writings then Ocean writings, by the end of Tuesday, then I shall organize and lay out the book, deciding how many more pieces I need, from there I will scavenge other journals for work I like along with writing more pieces, hoping to have the book laid out by Thursday, giving me Friday and Saturday to edit and perfect the book before beginning bindin