Happy Thursday! The week is finally over! Not that I'm sad to be past this set of classes, of course, but if you must know, World Lit is a lot more fun when you're not handing in papers late.
Ok, I feel fully justified in spending this Thursday discussing television. Firstly, because that's what I do all week anyhow. For college credit. Yes. Envy me. And Secondly, because THE OFFICE IS ON TONIGHT. I'm starting this thing ahead of time (it's currently 20:16), so that I can talk about things coherently before the event, and not so coherently afterwards.
Chuck
NBC, Mondays at 8/7c
Premise: "a one-hour, action-comedy series about Chuck Bartowski -- a computer geek who is catapulted into a new career as the government's most vital secret agent."
I regrettably have class Monday nights, but I caught the pilot Tuesday morning at NBC.com. There were a number of things that I wasn't expecting. For instance, I had no knowledge that it was not a sitcom--I'd forgotten that hour long shows could be comedies, too. Also, I was not expecting Chuck the character to be as cute/endearing as he is. Both of these, of course, are pleasant surprises. The show as a whole, too, is unexpectedly catered directly to my tastes. Lead character is a sweet nerd who wears Converse and coded video games in college. Then there's the whole CIA secret agent angle, which we all know and love. Also, there was definitely a ninja fight. Dead serious. And a creepy guy who winked.....and then winked again with the other eye. How deliciously terrifying. Happy to see Adam Baldwin in a steady role here, since he is well loved around these parts for playing the part of the Man They Call Jayne from back in the Firefly days. And Zachary Levi as Chuck is just too perfect. He's very sincere in his delivery of emotion. Also, he totally went to my high school. So, I love Chuck. Looking forward to more of this.
Journeyman
NBC, Mondays at 10/9c
Premise: A man suddenly pops around through time for no apparent reason, and mucks about with the timeline. And if you're curious about the network-sanctioned tagline, you'll find mine approximates it quite well.
BORING. I hated it since I heard about it, since I have a very clear idea about how timetravel should work. It's a little long-winded for this post, but I'll be happy to prattle on about it upon request. Suffice it to say, I devoutly believe that even if one were able to travel to the "past," one would not be able to "change the future." Which is, I say again, the premise of this show. But moving on from that, I wasn't sold on any other aspect of it. I wasn't watching very closely, but it was very confusing and disjointed (although I suppose spontaneous, inexorable time travel is prone to have that effect).
I just want to pause and say at this moment, Clark Kent is fighting himself in slow motion, and it's still not very good television.
Where was I. Journeyman. Megan was all YEAH about it, 'cause the actor was apparently amazing in Rome. He's pretty boring in this, though. The one coolish moment was when he had gone back to 1997 or whenever, and met up with his dead (I think she's dead in present time) woman friend, except it turns out that this particular girl is ALSO going through time, and then the actual one that belongs to that timeline busts through the door a moment later. So that was mildly intriguing. Worth watching it? Nah.
Smallville
CW, Thursdays at 8/9c.
Premise: Clark Kent as a teen.
I didn't mean to watch this season premier, I just settled for it because I wasn't expecting The Office to be on at 9. Here's what I had to say to my friend about it so far:
Aya kun Rose: wow, smallville's got way jacked since I last saw it
Aya kun Rose: lex is arrested for killing lana, lois is drowning with an unconscious cloe, clark is fighting Bizarro
Aya kun Rose: fake rocks are shattering
jbev009: LANA WAS KILLED?
jbev009: are you effing kidding me?
jbev009: noooo
Aya kun Rose: probably not
jbev009: haha. yay fake shattering rocks
jbev009: oh good
Aya kun Rose: you can never tell on this show
jbev009: true dat
Aya kun Rose: holy no
jbev009: did we find out who the girl super chick was?
jbev009: what??
jbev009: what?
Aya kun Rose: innocent fisherman? running away from the wall of water coming down from the broken dam? trips on some SAND and knocks himself OUT
jbev009: hahaha
jbev009: HAHAHAHAHA
jbev009: i hate when i do that
Aya kun Rose: I love hating this show
jbev009: hahaha
jbev009: good.
...
Aya kun Rose: oh no! Lex is going to drown!
Aya kun Rose: yeah right
Aya kun Rose: like I'm really worried for him
jbev009: hahahahahahahahaahah
Aya kun Rose: some kind of effing water fairy is here to save him
Aya kun Rose: bizarro set a guy on fire with his eyes
Aya kun Rose: you know, Tom Welling sometimes does that to people
jbev009: thats nice of her
jbev009: hahaha
Aya kun Rose: being a model and all
jbev009: i hear that
Aya kun Rose: now there's a spooky child
Aya kun Rose: I think the green goblin just stole away lionel's drowned body
Aya kun Rose: even though the goblin is spiderman fare
jbev009: ooohhh
Aya kun Rose: hahah, that spooky child might have killed chloe
jbev009: hey, ive gotta go
jbev009: enjoy hating smallville!!
jbev009: see ya
Aya kun Rose: ok!
Aya kun Rose: oh lex
Aya kun Rose: he's fine, if you wanted to know
And it didn't get very much better after that. There was a hilarious bit where Chloe was literally looking back and forth between Clark and Lana's death certificate (don't worry, she seems to be alive and well in China, we just saw), and it was just so overdone I just laughed and laughed. And I just don't know what's wrong with this show. It's like they don't even try. Perfect for mockery. It's a pastime of mine. Oh, and we still don't know who stole away Lionel. Although it was Wonderwoman who saved Lex. Thought it was Supergirl or something until just now, when she put on this bracelet and put her fists on her hips. Then she flew away.
OFFICE TIME
OK not going to lie. The very first shot of The Office made me shriek in laughter.
I'll see you in fifteen minute intervals for the next hour.
Um hey wow. I'm loving it. What I'm also loving is the fact that we can hear other apartments laughing at the jokes. For reals. It's amazing. Like a movie. We all have a lot of Office love.
While it's the commercial...
The Office
NBC, Thursdays at 9/8c (but probably 8 or 8:30 in a few weeks)
Premise: The everyday life in an office of a small branch of a paper company.
Definitely my favorite show. Don't bug me right now.
GUYS. If you've seen the episode, you'll know what I mean. The entire A court actually CHEERED just now. 9:30. There's totally guys' voices in these laughs, too. Everyone loves the Office.
Zoh My Gosh. People. Did you see how he was BLUSHING. I can't. I just cannot believe how wonderful this show is. GAAAH.
Speaking of 30 Rock, I'm wondering when that is coming back? I want to watch that so bad. That, and New Amsterdam, which I hear is premiering mid-season. Oh, tv says 30 Rock is next Thursday. Good news.
It's ooooooooooooooooooover now!! Awww man. Hap-py Thursday, people.
Oh, the other thing I wanted to tell you this week was about my new phrase I invented in my sleep. We started watching season one of Lost this week (dude, guys, it's so much better than present-day), and so of course Locke et al made appearances in my dreams. And so Locke made up this phrase, to say that something is or is not your "hat." Like, in the same vein as something being or not being your "cup of tea." Except "hat" means the thing you are interested in, or your area of expertise.
For example, I like to think of writing as my hat. Dancing is up my alley, but it's not quite my hat. Math, however, is certainly not my hat.
I hope you'll take this and spread it to the ends of the English-speaking earth.
-Steph
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Thursday, September 20, 2007
The Mantis They Call Jayne
Happy Thursday! I'm watching the Office! Season 3 finale! BECAUSE NEXT WEEK IT IS ALL NEWZ! Jim and Pam! GAHH!
Let me tell you about our new pet.
Yesterday when we went to check our mail, we discovered a praying mantis next to Megan's car! So we bravely scooped him into one of the boxes she got from the mail.
And then we went on an adventure! (we dropped the mantis off at home first) And went to Go China! Five bucks for a ginormous lunch. And then we went to Petco. Where the pets go. Bought a terrarium, a fake plant, and a tiny spray bottle.
Transporting the mantis from the box to the gladware to the terrarium was really terrifying. He's all legs and spiny arms and bugeyes. He liked to stick to what he was on and not go into where we wanted him to go.
We named him The Mantis They Call Jayne Jermaine. Jayne from Firefly, being Megan's new addiction thanks to me, and Jermaine because we can't stop quoting that video. So all yesterday I had "The Man They Call Jayne" and "Wear the funky eye patch, Bret" stuck in my head. They would switch off.
Jayne is so cool as a pet, I mean, we got him for free, and we can feed him for free--he eats bugs. Any bugs that are smaller than him. He's eaten pincher bugs and a cricket, but I'm not sure if he ever go the rollypollies. He would grab at them but they would roll up, and I don't think he can grab round as well. He's so intense. When he notices there's another bug in there, his head snaps around--and it already pivots like it might not actually be attached--and then he starts dancing. And then the bug gets too close and SNAP he's suddenly got in his crazy spiny arms and is eating it. It's actually pretty surprising we didn't get nightmares from that.
He likes to hang out upside down. And he's really hard to take a picture of because he's so small and the focus goes all wonky through the plastic.
But that's Jayne. I put the Beware of Dog sign up in the window, and Beth put up "MANTIS" over the "dog." So people been pointing at it all day. I was standing at the door, and these two kids walk by, and the one says something about the sign and then says, "there's a mantis in there!" It was so funny.
Ummmm, what about my real week, eh? Uhhhh, finally saw Stardust the other day. Very fun. I liked the management of all the threads of character travel, and I really liked Claire Danes. Hooray fun adventure stories.
Class hasn't been noteworthy--well, today in Writing he finished his lecture way earlier than he expected, so we ended up watching season 2 finale of the Office. Have I mentioned I love my major?
Oh, and it's been raining! During the night. Last night and the night before. So it's been beautiful and cloudy and cool but also warm and it's been great to walk to class in that. OH and I've had a few really good naps this week, too. One in my beanbag, and one in the middle of homework. Ahhh, naps.
Jayne says goodnight!
-Steph
Let me tell you about our new pet.
Yesterday when we went to check our mail, we discovered a praying mantis next to Megan's car! So we bravely scooped him into one of the boxes she got from the mail.
And then we went on an adventure! (we dropped the mantis off at home first) And went to Go China! Five bucks for a ginormous lunch. And then we went to Petco. Where the pets go. Bought a terrarium, a fake plant, and a tiny spray bottle.
Transporting the mantis from the box to the gladware to the terrarium was really terrifying. He's all legs and spiny arms and bugeyes. He liked to stick to what he was on and not go into where we wanted him to go.
We named him The Mantis They Call Jayne Jermaine. Jayne from Firefly, being Megan's new addiction thanks to me, and Jermaine because we can't stop quoting that video. So all yesterday I had "The Man They Call Jayne" and "Wear the funky eye patch, Bret" stuck in my head. They would switch off.
Jayne is so cool as a pet, I mean, we got him for free, and we can feed him for free--he eats bugs. Any bugs that are smaller than him. He's eaten pincher bugs and a cricket, but I'm not sure if he ever go the rollypollies. He would grab at them but they would roll up, and I don't think he can grab round as well. He's so intense. When he notices there's another bug in there, his head snaps around--and it already pivots like it might not actually be attached--and then he starts dancing. And then the bug gets too close and SNAP he's suddenly got in his crazy spiny arms and is eating it. It's actually pretty surprising we didn't get nightmares from that.
He likes to hang out upside down. And he's really hard to take a picture of because he's so small and the focus goes all wonky through the plastic.
But that's Jayne. I put the Beware of Dog sign up in the window, and Beth put up "MANTIS" over the "dog." So people been pointing at it all day. I was standing at the door, and these two kids walk by, and the one says something about the sign and then says, "there's a mantis in there!" It was so funny.
Ummmm, what about my real week, eh? Uhhhh, finally saw Stardust the other day. Very fun. I liked the management of all the threads of character travel, and I really liked Claire Danes. Hooray fun adventure stories.
Class hasn't been noteworthy--well, today in Writing he finished his lecture way earlier than he expected, so we ended up watching season 2 finale of the Office. Have I mentioned I love my major?
Oh, and it's been raining! During the night. Last night and the night before. So it's been beautiful and cloudy and cool but also warm and it's been great to walk to class in that. OH and I've had a few really good naps this week, too. One in my beanbag, and one in the middle of homework. Ahhh, naps.
Jayne says goodnight!
-Steph
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Don't go--I'LL go.
Happy Thursday! Title brought to you by our current inside joke, where someone is leaving, but you say Don't go--I'LL go. And then you maybe sink behind the counter or even leave the room yourself.
Me and Megan, we've been hanging out a lot. It's a side effect from being roomies. Quick, before I forget, this is all the movies we've seen this week:
Firefly (the series), Serenity, Rope, Shadow of a Doubt, Into the Woods, a disc of Fawlty Towers, Return of the Jedi, (and of course I've seen Hairspray and HSM2 a few more times, as well). AND, for Writing class, we've watched episodes from Freaks & Geeks and Mad Men. Oh, and we watched some Colbert because, I kid you not, it was homework for Sitcom. If you ask me, my summer was well spent. You know how it's really important to read, if you want to study literature and stuff? Well, I think you can figure why I think studying tv/film is really great.
My schedule is also really great. There's only two classes that aren't directly tv-related, and even these aren't horrible (I've never had a semester without a class I abhorred). Computer Graphics looks pretty neat, and not as time-intensive as advertised. I mean, I spend about two hours of that class doing nothing (at least so far) because I'm done with the project and can't go until she passes around the roll sheet. I get some creative writing done in that time.
And I dropped I & II Samuel. Like I said, the prof was just NOT getting any information across and he clearly thought he was. So I said, I can stick it, I'll just read the books real well and that'll be enough--but the books were just as thick as he was. And the first reading assignment? 1-38 in the one book and 1-92 in the other. Those thirty pages, too? Were the first half of the introduction, explaining how they decided on which particular translation of the books, using extremely esoteric terms that I can't just grasp as an amateur. So I threw it out and got my $107 dollars back.
I put in its place World Lit to the 1600s. An English class. It's super intense. Lots of reading, but not scholastic reading; reading ancient literature, which beats standard textbooks anyday. ....I just need to order the book 'cause there's none left. But I think Tuesday/Thursdays are funny because it goes Writing, Reading, Writing. Tuesday/Thursdays are really intense.
My classes with Parham look to be the most intensive. Producing, we're actually going to be producing the student films near the end of the semester. That's terrifying. And Writing, I do believe there is some script writing involved. But also learning by example, I think we're watching an episode or two of particular television every week. What a way to start the day.
Sitcom I'm having mixed feelings about. It's less a class and more a writing team like in the real world. Today the production team (another class) came in and discussed problems they found in the script, location- and cost-wise. And on Tuesday we had a "table read" of the script with the newly-cast actors. It's apparently very close to the real world of producing a television show. Kinda daunting. Oh. We're not writing the script, we're fixing up a stock one some other people wrote. It's not bad, but it's not Friends, either. I'll tell you more about it some other time.
So besides going to class and watching movies, (and hanging out--these people ALL expect me to be social) I've been writing. Still mostly HSM fanfiction, but it's so much fun. Gonna slip a Hairspray fic soon. Also, on Wednesday, Megan was all "LET'S WRITE SOMETHING," and then we spent that day discussing what became our thriller movie. It's about creepy stalkers and psychopathic killers and the like. It's very intense to discuss around other people. Have you ever seen Rope? It's Hitchcock, and it's beautiful. I didn't know I'd seen it, but Megan put it on and I was all OH and then we watched it and it was eerily similar. But also very different. Our main character would find that main character very flawed in his murder. Our main character is crazy.
It's still nice and warm here. Gets pleasantly cool at night. The sprinklers go on for hours in the dark, so we have a giant lake outside our door. Oh, tiny bugs can and do walk right in under the door. We still have to light the stove by switching on the gas at the back and quickly using a lighter on the burner we want. Oh, we also been playing some DDR, and today we finally used the TV as a TV because I finally plugged in the antenna. I've been walking to class and back as much as possible, and I was pleasantly surprised to see it took 23 or so minutes from the top of West Campus to my apartment, when last year it would take 20 minutes just to go from the sidewalk of one campus to the sidewalk of the other.
Thursdays really are quite good.
I'll leave you with a comic story. So yesterday, Megan checked her mail and was blessed with three packages! I asked, do you know what they are, or maybe it is surprises? She says she's got a comic book, a movie, and a hat. Neat, I say.
She opens the first one. A comic book. X-men. Old school.
She opens the second one. Also a comic book. Lies, I say, I bet that last one is like a sock or something.
She opens the third one. I swear to everything good and true that it is in fact NOT a hat, but a small box of rubber bands.
She didn't even order rubber bands.
-Steph
Me and Megan, we've been hanging out a lot. It's a side effect from being roomies. Quick, before I forget, this is all the movies we've seen this week:
Firefly (the series), Serenity, Rope, Shadow of a Doubt, Into the Woods, a disc of Fawlty Towers, Return of the Jedi, (and of course I've seen Hairspray and HSM2 a few more times, as well). AND, for Writing class, we've watched episodes from Freaks & Geeks and Mad Men. Oh, and we watched some Colbert because, I kid you not, it was homework for Sitcom. If you ask me, my summer was well spent. You know how it's really important to read, if you want to study literature and stuff? Well, I think you can figure why I think studying tv/film is really great.
My schedule is also really great. There's only two classes that aren't directly tv-related, and even these aren't horrible (I've never had a semester without a class I abhorred). Computer Graphics looks pretty neat, and not as time-intensive as advertised. I mean, I spend about two hours of that class doing nothing (at least so far) because I'm done with the project and can't go until she passes around the roll sheet. I get some creative writing done in that time.
And I dropped I & II Samuel. Like I said, the prof was just NOT getting any information across and he clearly thought he was. So I said, I can stick it, I'll just read the books real well and that'll be enough--but the books were just as thick as he was. And the first reading assignment? 1-38 in the one book and 1-92 in the other. Those thirty pages, too? Were the first half of the introduction, explaining how they decided on which particular translation of the books, using extremely esoteric terms that I can't just grasp as an amateur. So I threw it out and got my $107 dollars back.
I put in its place World Lit to the 1600s. An English class. It's super intense. Lots of reading, but not scholastic reading; reading ancient literature, which beats standard textbooks anyday. ....I just need to order the book 'cause there's none left. But I think Tuesday/Thursdays are funny because it goes Writing, Reading, Writing. Tuesday/Thursdays are really intense.
My classes with Parham look to be the most intensive. Producing, we're actually going to be producing the student films near the end of the semester. That's terrifying. And Writing, I do believe there is some script writing involved. But also learning by example, I think we're watching an episode or two of particular television every week. What a way to start the day.
Sitcom I'm having mixed feelings about. It's less a class and more a writing team like in the real world. Today the production team (another class) came in and discussed problems they found in the script, location- and cost-wise. And on Tuesday we had a "table read" of the script with the newly-cast actors. It's apparently very close to the real world of producing a television show. Kinda daunting. Oh. We're not writing the script, we're fixing up a stock one some other people wrote. It's not bad, but it's not Friends, either. I'll tell you more about it some other time.
So besides going to class and watching movies, (and hanging out--these people ALL expect me to be social) I've been writing. Still mostly HSM fanfiction, but it's so much fun. Gonna slip a Hairspray fic soon. Also, on Wednesday, Megan was all "LET'S WRITE SOMETHING," and then we spent that day discussing what became our thriller movie. It's about creepy stalkers and psychopathic killers and the like. It's very intense to discuss around other people. Have you ever seen Rope? It's Hitchcock, and it's beautiful. I didn't know I'd seen it, but Megan put it on and I was all OH and then we watched it and it was eerily similar. But also very different. Our main character would find that main character very flawed in his murder. Our main character is crazy.
It's still nice and warm here. Gets pleasantly cool at night. The sprinklers go on for hours in the dark, so we have a giant lake outside our door. Oh, tiny bugs can and do walk right in under the door. We still have to light the stove by switching on the gas at the back and quickly using a lighter on the burner we want. Oh, we also been playing some DDR, and today we finally used the TV as a TV because I finally plugged in the antenna. I've been walking to class and back as much as possible, and I was pleasantly surprised to see it took 23 or so minutes from the top of West Campus to my apartment, when last year it would take 20 minutes just to go from the sidewalk of one campus to the sidewalk of the other.
Thursdays really are quite good.
I'll leave you with a comic story. So yesterday, Megan checked her mail and was blessed with three packages! I asked, do you know what they are, or maybe it is surprises? She says she's got a comic book, a movie, and a hat. Neat, I say.
She opens the first one. A comic book. X-men. Old school.
She opens the second one. Also a comic book. Lies, I say, I bet that last one is like a sock or something.
She opens the third one. I swear to everything good and true that it is in fact NOT a hat, but a small box of rubber bands.
She didn't even order rubber bands.
-Steph
Thursday, September 06, 2007
Hotter'n HELLTH In Here! AKA You Can't Stop The Beat
Happy Thursday from A-town! Moved in on Sunday, and it was totally like 108 or so degrees. And then it got hotter and hotter until yesterday. And we didn't have electricity! No lights, no A/C. It was great.
Me and new roomie Megan went and saw Hairspray again and again on Monday and Tuesday. Still really great. So great. Too great. I need to see it again, and then own it.
Which is alright, since for two of my classes, the on-going homework is to watch as much tv and as many movies as possible.
Which I'm doing, since I introduced Megan to Firefly yesterday, and now we have only two episodes left! I'd forgotten how great this show is (not really, not entirely forgotten); at least, it never ceases to amaze. And it reminds me that this was the thing that, near two years ago, made me switch my major so as to maybe write something just as amazing someday. (or at least try.)
Other roomie Kelly is nice, too. Haven't seen her much, what with schedules and all. But I think this year/apartment setup deal is gonna be real easy-nice. Also nice is having the whole place with just the three of us, four like last year could be a bit much.
Classes! Had all of them 'cept for Producing, 'cause that's only on Monday. But I'll tell ya about the rest.
Yesterday, Intro to Computer Graphics. Three hours, twice a week. Real late in the day, 7:30. But it's the only thing Wednesdays. We are gonna use graphics programs to make art! Exploring font and all kinds of stuff like that. I think it'll be good or fun, or at least interesting/informative, but it looks like it's going to be all kinds of time intensive. Jeesh.
Writing for TV, Radio, and Film! Way early in the morning. Looks like it's more like learning *how* to write rather than writing all the time. I mean, I bet there's gonna be a lot of writing, but there's also a strong learning ...thing. In it. Looks fun.
I & II Samuel! Is awful. We have this guy who's maybe three years older than us, it's his first sememster here at APU, and he just reads his powerpoints (which are too technical and too seemingly irrelevant) too fast for us to take notes. There's a five page review on one of the books, a ten page research paper on a topic of our choice (sound familiar?), and a comprehensive final. That's it. I'm going to give it another week before deciding to drop it.
Sitcom Writing! Way for sure the best class ever. There's six people, including Megan and myself. We're basically re-writing this someone-else's pilot for the Sitcom Acting class to perform, and the Sitcom Producing class to produce. Just like the real world. So basically, it's not particularly a class, it's a writing project. We all start with A-s, and if we don't do something stupid, we can't end the semester with anything lower than that. So, much funs in this arena.
No school tomorrow! But that's a day for cleaning and homeworks and such. And I guess English Conversation Class again. Yatta.
Maybe I'll take some pictures soon, so yous know what I'm talking about. And I'll send my schedule to those what want it. So.
Gosh, now there's only one episode left. Probably save it for tomorrow. Then, Angel. Then, Lost. Then, Veronica Mars. Then, the Office, when it's new again at the end of the month. Who's excited!
-Steph
Me and new roomie Megan went and saw Hairspray again and again on Monday and Tuesday. Still really great. So great. Too great. I need to see it again, and then own it.
Which is alright, since for two of my classes, the on-going homework is to watch as much tv and as many movies as possible.
Which I'm doing, since I introduced Megan to Firefly yesterday, and now we have only two episodes left! I'd forgotten how great this show is (not really, not entirely forgotten); at least, it never ceases to amaze. And it reminds me that this was the thing that, near two years ago, made me switch my major so as to maybe write something just as amazing someday. (or at least try.)
Other roomie Kelly is nice, too. Haven't seen her much, what with schedules and all. But I think this year/apartment setup deal is gonna be real easy-nice. Also nice is having the whole place with just the three of us, four like last year could be a bit much.
Classes! Had all of them 'cept for Producing, 'cause that's only on Monday. But I'll tell ya about the rest.
Yesterday, Intro to Computer Graphics. Three hours, twice a week. Real late in the day, 7:30. But it's the only thing Wednesdays. We are gonna use graphics programs to make art! Exploring font and all kinds of stuff like that. I think it'll be good or fun, or at least interesting/informative, but it looks like it's going to be all kinds of time intensive. Jeesh.
Writing for TV, Radio, and Film! Way early in the morning. Looks like it's more like learning *how* to write rather than writing all the time. I mean, I bet there's gonna be a lot of writing, but there's also a strong learning ...thing. In it. Looks fun.
I & II Samuel! Is awful. We have this guy who's maybe three years older than us, it's his first sememster here at APU, and he just reads his powerpoints (which are too technical and too seemingly irrelevant) too fast for us to take notes. There's a five page review on one of the books, a ten page research paper on a topic of our choice (sound familiar?), and a comprehensive final. That's it. I'm going to give it another week before deciding to drop it.
Sitcom Writing! Way for sure the best class ever. There's six people, including Megan and myself. We're basically re-writing this someone-else's pilot for the Sitcom Acting class to perform, and the Sitcom Producing class to produce. Just like the real world. So basically, it's not particularly a class, it's a writing project. We all start with A-s, and if we don't do something stupid, we can't end the semester with anything lower than that. So, much funs in this arena.
No school tomorrow! But that's a day for cleaning and homeworks and such. And I guess English Conversation Class again. Yatta.
Maybe I'll take some pictures soon, so yous know what I'm talking about. And I'll send my schedule to those what want it. So.
Gosh, now there's only one episode left. Probably save it for tomorrow. Then, Angel. Then, Lost. Then, Veronica Mars. Then, the Office, when it's new again at the end of the month. Who's excited!
-Steph
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