I plowed through an epic amount of work today. It was pretty grueling, but at least I can go into this weekend without stressing out about getting things done. I'm experimenting this semester with setting designated "work times" that I will always stick to. I utilize scheduling a fair bit, but I tend to schedule things whenever is convenient rather ( Read more... )

I am fascinated by a game series called Five Nights at Freddy's. For those of you who don't know, this is a series of indie survival horror games where, basically, you must keep a bunch of murderous Chuck-E-Cheese-style animatronics from catching and killing you. I'm not really a fan of that kind of gameplay, I find it too stressful, but the ( Read more... )

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As I've mentioned, I costumed a production of She Kills Monsters at Dana Hall this semester. One of the coolest set properties in the show were the heads of the Tiamat, the final boss in the story of the play, made by Mr. Peter Watson, the technical director at Dana Hall. They were dragon heads on long poles, each individually operated by actors.


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Finally got around to watching all of Anita Sarkeesian's "Tropes vs. Women in Video Games" series. She does a very good job, with a polished, well-informed approach that improves in precision with each installment of the series. I was slightly frustrated by how pretty much all her examples are presented free of context, but not because that I ( Read more... )

Phoebe, you can't write a ballet.

Why would you want to write a ballet? I mean, yeah, you love ballet, and have a strong tendency of when you see an example of an art done well it usually makes you want to run home and MAKE YOUR OWN VERSION JUST AS AWESOME AS THAT ONE, but seriously. You are a writer, and writing only has the most passing ( Read more... )

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OF COURSE I would be overrun with ideas for other projects right when I'm just on the heels of being free of the obligation to write for a while. I should be getting my focus on editing Mrs. Hawking, I only have to do it for one more day, but OF COURSE my brain would become suffused with notions for unrelated projects exactly at this crucial moment ( Read more... )

So close. So very close. I was a productivity machine this week, plowing through my projects one after the other. All I have left to do is finish my fiction piece for my final assignment of the semester. After that, I am done with all assignments for six weeks. Six glorious weeks of no homework, no deadlines, no projects except those I assign ( Read more... )

Okay, so I'm not quite at forty yet. According to my calendar, last night marked my thirty-ninth ballet class since I started in September. I have missed classes here and there for other commitments, but by and large I have made it a point to go to every Tuesday and Thursday nights for the beginner course, and I have been enjoying it.

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