Lucky Thursday! Hmm. Or, Happy Lucky Thursday! Or: Have a Lucky Thursday! Which is, I suppose, the etymological origin of "Happy Thursday." As in, it came from "have a happy Thursday!" much like I suppose "Merry Christmas" came from "I hope you have a merry Christmas!" Therefore, I condone "Lucky Thursday," and we'll skip all those centuries of language progression.
Tonight I have to write a paper and watch The Office.
Tomorrow I have to go to class and then change into my work clothes (D:!) and help out at the Dinner Rally for ministry credit. Which is good, because I don't have any this semester yet. I needz it.
Today I had the long day per usual. Up ten minutes early and had enough time to eat an orange. Went to dumb lab where we talked about our script for our upcoming project. It was something I slammed out the other evening, just so we had something to turn in, and then was declared wonderful and revised by a teammate, and today we were supposed to revise it some more til it worked, but we sorta didn't. Then was Church class, which was good, because I actually did the homework for it, and we had a better discussion than we've been having. Then lunch...where I almost ruined the microwavable hamburger helper by putting it 1 1/3 cup water instead of 1/3....so I added another packet and microwaved it again and it was salvageable. Then screenwriting, where for some reason we talked about Esselstrom's life, which was enjoyable. Then Japanese, where we had a "mid term," but was really more like a glorified quiz. I was done after ten minutes, so I got out more than an hour early. And then I hung out over on West Campus (with a vanilla fudge Drumstick) and thought out some of my screenplay, waiting for my Academic Advising appointment to come into range. And Megan Moorhouse came over because we're buddies and we ended up getting "advised" at the same time and we're hoping to have classes together next semester.
Yay.
But it's so late in the day now...it's practically dinner time. If I get all the classes I'm thinking about, I'll have late days every day, and two night-ish classes....but I have open mornings and no class on Friday. Tentative classes:
Writing for TV, Film, and Radio
Life and Teachings of Jesus
Film and Literature (+lab(watching movies))
Japanese 102
Media Criticism
Only 16 units, because the lab doesn't count for anything. And the writing one is 4 hours but only 3 units....but it's a "Upper Division Writing Intensive" course, so I'm thinking that explains it.
Last Saturday I helped an acquaintance film the play Dracula. I ran a camera and kept track of the sound and everything! It was fun. It was a back-up shoot because the one they did the week before didn't work so great, and so it was not a really stressfull-must-be-perfect sort of first experience. It was also a great play, and I wish I had at least seen it before I had to watch it from behind a camera. I'm going to see if I can wrangle a copy.
Our studio shoot project got finished...it's alright. As good as it can be with a crummy script, decrepit sound stage, and inexperienced crew. Gonna try to get a copy of that, too.
It's Lucky Thursday because I needed the luck to finish everything I needed to finish this week. Really all that's left is the paper, and then the big event tomorrow....so I think it ended up ok. And I can afford to do the paper just tonight, because I have enough extra credit to ensure an A.
I haven't missed an assignment all semester!! Only one late, too, so far. I'm hoping my self-dicipline will actually increase, so that next sememster I can devote myself to Homework!Fridays. Then I'll have the entire weekend open every week. That'd be really nice. Here's hopin'.
-Steph
Thursday, October 26, 2006
Thursday, October 19, 2006
TGIT
HT e1!
I am so hungry. BRB going to the caf.
Hmm... not a great selection today... here, look.
Mmmmmmm.
More pictures? Ok.
My Thursday Truck! He's sooooo cute. I saw him twice today, and both time I laughed giddily. Kinda like everytime I see Pellaffle, the alien donut penguin I drew.
The new walk added onto the normal walk--all the way to that light and back down the other side, to get to....
Yeah. That's where my Japanese class is at. Room 208. There was like no one there today, I answered pretty much everything. It was fun.
So I forgot to do my laundry, so I just did it all today, so earlier I was not wearing my Thursday clothes, but now I am! This week was pretty weird. But now that it's over, it's pretty good. I mean, tomorrow is a "study day" to prepare for next week's midterms. I already had one, and thanks to him curving it a crazy lot, I got an A!
My mom's coming to visit tomorrow, and that should be exciting. Hafta clean the little house, so it looks like it's always clean. LOL.
Brianna's playing the Rent soundtrack (on shuffle between the old and new versions @@) and it makes me want to see it real bad.
OH. Lucky # Slevin is EXCELLENT. The Departed is alright, coulda been better. Fulltime Killer is going in my list of favorite movies ever. Primal Fear was hyped too much to me, but it had its merits. All these movies had actors I really love (except for Fulltime Killer, but now I really love Andy Lau), and I'd say the acting is the strong point of all of these. Maybe in Slevin the story one-ups the acting, but then, everything about it is good.
Our most recent filming project is to tape a "dialogue scene" that was given to us. It's a horrible, horrible script, the acting is only as good as our classmates, and most recently, the filming is only as good as myself.
Remember when we spent five hours taping it on Sunday? Well, tonight we have to do it allllllllllllllll over again.
Why? Because the lighting was awful, and the other camera person pretty much got the entire soundstage on tape.
It's projected that we'll be there till 2 in the morning, because we can't meet until 9. Sigh. I miss sleep.
Speaking of, I might just nap after getting my clothes outta the dryer. 7-8:30 nap, that sounds good. 8:30 is Office!!!!!!! It holds my attention better than Lost does, sad to say. OK. gtg. ttyl. cya.
-Steph
I am so hungry. BRB going to the caf.
Hmm... not a great selection today... here, look.
Mmmmmmm.
More pictures? Ok.
My Thursday Truck! He's sooooo cute. I saw him twice today, and both time I laughed giddily. Kinda like everytime I see Pellaffle, the alien donut penguin I drew.
The new walk added onto the normal walk--all the way to that light and back down the other side, to get to....
Yeah. That's where my Japanese class is at. Room 208. There was like no one there today, I answered pretty much everything. It was fun.
So I forgot to do my laundry, so I just did it all today, so earlier I was not wearing my Thursday clothes, but now I am! This week was pretty weird. But now that it's over, it's pretty good. I mean, tomorrow is a "study day" to prepare for next week's midterms. I already had one, and thanks to him curving it a crazy lot, I got an A!
My mom's coming to visit tomorrow, and that should be exciting. Hafta clean the little house, so it looks like it's always clean. LOL.
Brianna's playing the Rent soundtrack (on shuffle between the old and new versions @@) and it makes me want to see it real bad.
OH. Lucky # Slevin is EXCELLENT. The Departed is alright, coulda been better. Fulltime Killer is going in my list of favorite movies ever. Primal Fear was hyped too much to me, but it had its merits. All these movies had actors I really love (except for Fulltime Killer, but now I really love Andy Lau), and I'd say the acting is the strong point of all of these. Maybe in Slevin the story one-ups the acting, but then, everything about it is good.
Our most recent filming project is to tape a "dialogue scene" that was given to us. It's a horrible, horrible script, the acting is only as good as our classmates, and most recently, the filming is only as good as myself.
Remember when we spent five hours taping it on Sunday? Well, tonight we have to do it allllllllllllllll over again.
Why? Because the lighting was awful, and the other camera person pretty much got the entire soundstage on tape.
It's projected that we'll be there till 2 in the morning, because we can't meet until 9. Sigh. I miss sleep.
Speaking of, I might just nap after getting my clothes outta the dryer. 7-8:30 nap, that sounds good. 8:30 is Office!!!!!!! It holds my attention better than Lost does, sad to say. OK. gtg. ttyl. cya.
-Steph
Thursday, October 12, 2006
Is it just me, or is it fall?
Happy Thursday and Happy Autumn Time! I spent yesterday messing around in photoshop instead of doing things productive...and ended up with an oddly festive, seasonally-appropriate thing!
Remember in the summer when I had nothing to write about for weeks on end? And now I spend the whole post talking about a single day? Yeah, I blame that on Vons.
Oh, speaking of prolificacy (looked that one up, so I didn't end up putting "prolitivery"), Dr. Esselstrom likes my movie idea. He also says to start writing the novel, and I'm prone to agree with him. ^^;; Which is too bad, because my mind came up with it specifically to make a movie from, and I wanted to try and get away from book-writing. Not that it would make a bad movie--it'd just make a better book.
Funny thing is, I actually *have* already started writing the novel, so to speak. The only thing I have written for it (asides from pages of notes, and outlines, and treatments) is a half-page chapter. Here, I'll show it off:
A silhouette of a solitary traveler flickers in the shifting desert heat. Gradually, the terrain changes under his boots, the flat sands mounding and forming oddly shaped piles. And these grow as his goes on, until rubble and broken stone formations protrude from the earth. The sand has not had time enough to cover these, too.
The frames in the middle of the town have survived the best. Some hollow structures still retain the image of a house or shop. But there is none that hasn't been mostly destroyed by something before the sand crept in. The wooden ones have fallen as if in fire; and the masonry looks like it was blown apart.
There is a statue that stands in what was once the center of town. It is now cracked and disfigured, tinted orange with a coat of fine dust, and the calm pool it once stood in has filled with sand. This is where the traveler's boots bring him. Here at his destination he removes his large concealing hat, revealing himself to be a green-eyed young man. The tattered edges of his cape whip around his legs as he stands in front of that equally battered statue.
He looks up, squinting against the harsh sun. The statue ignores him, staring instead off into the distance, serene and lifeless. Too much like the desert itself. He raises a hand to touch the old stone, but stops just before his fingers reach the dusty surface.
"I'm sorry," he says to the statue. The statue doesn't hear him.
I hope that intrigues you! So that you will go see the movie when it comes to a theater near you.
Nothing of great outstanding interest has happened this week, but it's all been good. Spent a class period behind a studio camera today--have I mentioned how much my major rocks?
Mm, because I'm a sucker for romance, I really want to play FFX again, and I'm sad that I only own X-2. Not a satisfying ending, unless you're an ULTRAGAMER. Also, I really really want the FFX-2 soundtrack. And, FFXII. ....Christmas is coming up soon, right?
Happy Birthdays! Melody and Michelle are aging over the weekend! Sadly not on Thursdays, but hey, no one's perfect.
Carolyn's visiting me over the weekend, too! But not aging. Well, maybe aging. Just a little bit. I'd say about two or three days' worth.
Whaaaaaaaaaat else. The Office tonight. Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww Jim and Pam. And Grey's Anatomy, which I'm finding is more and more like my first impression--not really that amazing a show. I think it has a good deal to do with "McDreamy" being one of the worst looking people I've ever seen on TV, and Meredith being an idiot. I like George.
And Sawyer. I like Sawyer from Lost. And Ben? TOTALLY creeps me out. Ew. And Sayid? or, Naveen Andrews? That's a great actor. Because his character--he knows what's going on when other people don't, but he plays at going along with things when he's planning something completely different, and you can tell! Maybe it would be better to the character to be completely believable when he's plotting, but in any case it's some mindboggling acting work. Wow, that had nothing to do with anything.
Maa, na. Owatta.
-Steph
Thursday, October 05, 2006
The Guests in my House are Plants
'Cause they are. Megan's giving them back to whoever they belong to tomorrow.
Happy Blackjack Thursday! Second of the year, and I'm not sure if there are any more. I'll have to check.
Last night I had a crazy dream which involved me being a Meredith Grey-esque doctor, who instantaneously became a Buffy-esque demon fighter when Spike (from Buffy) showed up with crazy spikes (huh) out of his back and a tail, and then tried to kill me and my random dream friend. It was one of those ..disturbing dreams that you realize are not fun and wake yourself up from, and then try to stay awake for a while so you don't go back there. The worst part was that this happened at 6:11 AM, and my alarm was going to go off at 7:00. I guess I did fall back asleep, because I woke up again 30 seconds before my alarm, so that's alright.
I'm sorta sad that Thursday is my long day. But the fact that the second half is my favorite classes kinda makes up for that. Today we "learned" how to set up lights and get the right kind of light ratio in production class. Then, I went and doodled in my Church class. Then lunch--I bought a crazy frozen thai food thing from the Qwikimart, and did my homework for the next class. Which was Screenwriting, and he stealthily taught us about good characters/characterization without us realizing it. Then Japanese, where my hall-mate Suko from last year was randomly assisting in, and where I actually learned some stuff. I think it was the best/most productive class so far.
From there I walked back over to West, to meet up with a buddy from production class to do some stupid homework which involves ignoring a 20-year-old cd-rom and taking common-sense quizzes. But the only two computers in the entire school which have this program were occupied, so we sat there next to them and hung out. They were occupied by people from our class, by the way. Then we went to the food place and went back, and I was able to skip the ignoring part and just do the quizzes, so now it looks like I completed everything. ^^ And, I did like enough Japanese homework to last a week.
Also, it seems that I have no homework (as of now) for tomorrow, and only one class! There's extra credit for the other one, but I dun wanna go and listen to a lecture about directing actors. Production class has made me realize how much I do not want to be in that side of film production. I'd much rather sit at home and write a movie, and send it off and be completely uninvolved in making it. Screenwriting has shown me how much I want to write for TV. As has LOST.
*incoherent gurgles*
What a show. What a show.
Also, today I wore my sweatshirt all day long. Because it was cold enough to need it! The sign on the way to class this morning said it was 53 degrees. To me, we've definitely hit fall. And it's real nice. I'm thinking of doing a Fall Update photoshoot, which includes the route out to Japanese class, which is located in a shopping alcove across the street from the real campus.
What else.....finished that movie. Ended up being called Toward and Away, but that was literally something thrown out there at the *last* second. It's not the best movie ever, no, but it's alright. Just, I can't sit through it anymore, because that footage and that song make me sick. Got a copy of it today, so I can show it off if you come in contact with me and a DVD player.
Welp, that looks like that's all I've got to say this week. I'll leave you with this: if you haven't seen Arrested Development, you NEED to go rent it. NOW.
-Steph
Happy Blackjack Thursday! Second of the year, and I'm not sure if there are any more. I'll have to check.
Last night I had a crazy dream which involved me being a Meredith Grey-esque doctor, who instantaneously became a Buffy-esque demon fighter when Spike (from Buffy) showed up with crazy spikes (huh) out of his back and a tail, and then tried to kill me and my random dream friend. It was one of those ..disturbing dreams that you realize are not fun and wake yourself up from, and then try to stay awake for a while so you don't go back there. The worst part was that this happened at 6:11 AM, and my alarm was going to go off at 7:00. I guess I did fall back asleep, because I woke up again 30 seconds before my alarm, so that's alright.
I'm sorta sad that Thursday is my long day. But the fact that the second half is my favorite classes kinda makes up for that. Today we "learned" how to set up lights and get the right kind of light ratio in production class. Then, I went and doodled in my Church class. Then lunch--I bought a crazy frozen thai food thing from the Qwikimart, and did my homework for the next class. Which was Screenwriting, and he stealthily taught us about good characters/characterization without us realizing it. Then Japanese, where my hall-mate Suko from last year was randomly assisting in, and where I actually learned some stuff. I think it was the best/most productive class so far.
From there I walked back over to West, to meet up with a buddy from production class to do some stupid homework which involves ignoring a 20-year-old cd-rom and taking common-sense quizzes. But the only two computers in the entire school which have this program were occupied, so we sat there next to them and hung out. They were occupied by people from our class, by the way. Then we went to the food place and went back, and I was able to skip the ignoring part and just do the quizzes, so now it looks like I completed everything. ^^ And, I did like enough Japanese homework to last a week.
Also, it seems that I have no homework (as of now) for tomorrow, and only one class! There's extra credit for the other one, but I dun wanna go and listen to a lecture about directing actors. Production class has made me realize how much I do not want to be in that side of film production. I'd much rather sit at home and write a movie, and send it off and be completely uninvolved in making it. Screenwriting has shown me how much I want to write for TV. As has LOST.
*incoherent gurgles*
What a show. What a show.
Also, today I wore my sweatshirt all day long. Because it was cold enough to need it! The sign on the way to class this morning said it was 53 degrees. To me, we've definitely hit fall. And it's real nice. I'm thinking of doing a Fall Update photoshoot, which includes the route out to Japanese class, which is located in a shopping alcove across the street from the real campus.
What else.....finished that movie. Ended up being called Toward and Away, but that was literally something thrown out there at the *last* second. It's not the best movie ever, no, but it's alright. Just, I can't sit through it anymore, because that footage and that song make me sick. Got a copy of it today, so I can show it off if you come in contact with me and a DVD player.
Welp, that looks like that's all I've got to say this week. I'll leave you with this: if you haven't seen Arrested Development, you NEED to go rent it. NOW.
-Steph
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