Curling up with a stylebook

Tomorrow marks my first day at my first newspaper job, and this may seem crazy, but the thing I am most looking forward to is getting my in-house stylebook from The Arizona Republic, curling up with it during my dinner break and getting lost in the entries for at least a week.

Copy editing is both an intuitive and procedural process, but one thing that stays constant is the need for consistency. And to a copy editor, there's no replacement for a stylebook.

Coming in at a close second is being finally able to decorate my desk with pictures of my friends, family and all the great people I've met during this long weekend with the Chips Quinn Scholars program.