the (b)log at kaystarr

and so peaceful until… i get on a plane this coming Monday and head off to germany. yee! so i’ve been thinking about this trip since march, but have done notsomuch prepping for it until recently. i’m going to be an intern for Muller Martini (maker of big huge commercial print machines) at drupa 2008 (big huge graphic arts conference that happens every 4 years) in dusseldorf (comparatively small city on the eastern bank - Östlich bank - of the rhine. i’m beyond excited (and if you know me, you’d probably expect shorter sentences and more exclamation points in this post, huh?) and am actually a bit nervous. i’ll be surrounded by machines and commercial systems that are larger than my apartment! what if i slip and fall into a display binder or collating machine? ha! it should be a blast - my head is sure to explode with all of the new things i’ll learn about printing/binding/ink/paper/finishing/data management but that’s the whole point of being a grad student right? $70K to have your head pop off with too much damned information about one subject. whoo!