It's Been a While: No, I'm not dead, I just haven't updated in a long time
My semester is going very well so far. Working at Barnes and Noble takes up the bulk of my time, however. I'm enjoying my classes for the most part. They've been challenging. I've learned a lot so far. I can't remember the last time that happened. Oh yeah, Reynen's class!
This semester I'm taking:
- Media Writing
- Intro. to Mass Media
- Intro. to Short Stories
- Writing About Film and Television
- Intro. to Film Studies
Like I mentioned before, Barnes and Noble practically owns my soul.
The store is closing soon. As of yet there is no specific closing date. I've heard that we'll be closed before the summer though. I really need to find a new job. I'm working practically 30 hours a week. Thisleaves me with virtually no time for anything besides homework and housework. I've made a lot of new friends working there. This is a good thing because otherwise I'm a virtual shut-in.
Being out of the house so much really makes me feel like I'm neglecting my cats, Vada and Tirzah.
They're doing well for the most part, just very needy. Vada has a good three or four pounds on Tirzah. Tirzah is afraid of practically everyone and anything. I should really change my user icon to a picture of them instead of the picture of Verena.
My parents still haven't sold their old house.
They fired the realtor because she wasn't doing anything. They decided to try and sell the house themselves. They recently put the house on an online site. You can see the house here: www.onlybyowner.com/137
I was really rather disappointed by the Oscars this year. Here's why:
- Cate Blanchett won Best Supporting Actress. She had the weakest performance out of the five nominated. She was strangely unemotional and reserved in her acceptance speech. It was like she accepted an Oscar everyday of her life and was bored by it. It was very strange.
- Virginia Madsen should have won Best Supporting Actress. At least the audience could have seen someone cry that way.
- Don Cheadle lost Best Actor. Everyone is praising Jamie Foxx like he's some sort of God for his performance in Ray. He was admittedly good. He was not the best. That was Don Cheadle for Hotel Rwanda. It was an incredible performance in a film that was so vitally important, just as Schindler's List was. If you haven't seen it, go out and try to find it. It was an amazing film.
- Hilary Swank beat out Annette Bening for Best Actress again. Hilary's performance was good. So was Annette's. The actress who should have beat both of them was Imelda Staunton for her searing performance as the title character in Vera Drake. She played a 1950s abortionist in a very daring film directed by Mike Leigh.
- Martin Scorsese was cheated out of an Oscar again! And by Clint Eastwood at that. Granted, Million Dollar Baby was a great and upsetting film. And The Aviator didn't have the emotional pull that Eastwood's film had. But still, it's Scorsese, he deserves to win after all of these years for something! Who knows when he'll stop making films? Then it will be too late. And don't tell me that he'll get his Lifetime Achievement Award, those are just consolation gifts.
- Scarlett Johannson's hair was just out of control.
- The opening monologue was uncharacteristically short.
- Barbra Streisand appeared only in the final minutes of the program. She should've hosted the show. I would have been in heaven then. I spent the whole show holding my breath, waiting for her to appear. She looked very good though. Her schtick with Dustin Hoffman was adorable.
- The presentation of Oscars in the aisles was just insane. If you won an Oscar, don't you think that you deserve to walk up to that stage? I know it was a time cutting ploy, but it was a fiasco if you ask me.