This week was a whirwind that tested my patience in many ways. On the one hand I made a lot of progress in my cookbook, but I’ve come to learn just how hard it is to do layout for an entire book by yourself. Luckily, I’ve been running ahead of schedule and am fairly confident I can meet my deadline. Since I’ve got all the material for the cookbook, it’s mostly been about polishing it up and getting feedback from my faculty, Sarah Williams and Catalina Ocampo.

It’s been really helpful to have multiple sets of eyes on this since it’s such a huge project. And this is also my first time doing something like this. I’ve had my head buried in my computer for hours everyday of the week. I’m trying to get better at giving myself some breaks since my eyes began to ache from all the layouts near the end of this week.

I’ve also been paying close attention to my table of contents since that works as my map to the actual layout.

With feedback from Catalina, I’ve broken up the cookbook into chapters based around what time of day I would cook the recipes. I’ve currently got four; morning, afternoon, evening, and all day. I’m a little undecided on the last one, but it’s because the last three recipes are like sides/light eating so I’d make them at any point in the day. I might workshop the section title further, but I’m mostly just concerned about finalizing the layout right now so I have time to finalize my academic statement and write my evals.

Not a huge update this week since it’s been a lot of the same stuff. On to week 9!