That Thursday Thing Again

Yawn! I get outta class and it's practically night already!

Well, not quite, I got out of class at 4.

But it was certainly already evening.

But when I'm inside without easy access to a window, I loose track of time.

But Happy Thursday to you all! I trust it was a good one.

After this next project finishes, filming class will be about news production the rest of the semester. So in lab we've been running demos of what it's like to produce a "live" news show. That is, the graphics and sound and stuff are fed live with the anchors--not that it's being broadcast.

It's fun. It's probably the funnest thing we've done *in* class so far. It's like the Batman one of last week, but less "radio." Yesterday and today, me and Matt were the anchors (me! an anchor!!) and we had to read this horrible script over and over and over as everyone else got a chance to do sound/graphics/direct. But it was still fun. This morning I did sound and directing.....I really like sound, and I sorta really hate directing. I also ran the teleprompter, which was not as fun as it sounds. But at least we were doing something interesting, instead of listening to him ramble on about his grammatically-poor power points.

Got another grade sheet in Church History, and I was quite pleased to see all As down the list. ^^ AND. This mini-paper from a week or so ago, totally came back marked "Excellent analysis 40/40." THAT was a surprise. Now all I gotta do is read the books for the research paper, and study for the final (on top of my normal keeping-up-with-the-work activities) and I'll be good.

Really, I think I've been doing rather well in all the classes--with a few exceptions. But I haven't missed a class or assignment yet...so I could be looking at my first all-A semester since like 5th grade. I just need to write a movie and a play for writing class, and all will be well. ^^;;

(I only had a 10 minute conference about it with him today, instead of class)

And Japanese is going really well--I'm still picking it up crazy easy, even the stuff that's completely new (which isn't a lot). Tuesday's quiz came back 13/13, and I was able to answer inu wa doko ni imasuka? really quickly (mado no soto ni imasu) where others had to look up both the noun and the preposition they wanted. And I think my penmanship is improving, but only randomly. I mean, 4 outta 5 あ are sorta cruddy, but every once in a while there's one that's perfect.

(the other class is mass comm, and we did a great presentation on the Oprah magazine AND we've done extra credit AND my 12:30-in-the-library-paper definitely got an A)

And now it's night! I'm hungry, but this toothpick I'm chewing on doesn't really help much. Complaining about being hungry reminds me of Jennifer, who I've been talking to a lot lately because she went away to college and discovered the internet, and that reminds me of Planism which I have been discussing a lot recently all of a sudden. We've got a Facebook group for it, and someone the other day posted a link to a "CONVINCING CASE FOR SOCIALISM!" which was convicing up until the democratic part. And then right after, a vague acquaintance of mine joined up, so I've been having to explain myself to the both of them, so it's been up in my mind a lot.

I really like Planism, guys, and that's why I spent all last Thursday talking about it. And, when I was grabbing my Thursday clothes last night, I definitely called my shirt my "Planism shirt" on accident, because I meant "Thursday shirt." I think the national day of Planism should be Thursday. AND, if ever Thursday and Planism become inexplicably mixed, then you will all know that this was the start of that movement.

Happy Thursday!
-Steph