get by with the people i know
i had a running dream last night. a fairly stupid one, but it involved running at one point. the first one i've had in a while. and now here i am, pacing around my room while listening to music and wondering what i'm running from. i didn't want to go to the gym this morning, i don't want to do my laundry, and i certainly don't want to do my homework. i feel like i'm running from something, and its very strange.
classes have been alright. wrote a piece for hess' class and got sort of strange reaction - people seemed to like it but they couldn't really articulate why. which i guess i can take that as a victory, and that it was just the last class on a friday and i was the last one to read. oh yeah, and one of the pieces i wrote for nonfiction won second place in the english department creative writing....thing. i had forgotten about submitting something by the end of last semester, though i think hess agreed that he was going to nominate everyone from the class. so yeah that came as a bit of surprise. i wonder who got first.
i've sort of been disappointed with sethi's class. which may be mostly because of the people in it. some of them seem to be good writers, but not necessarily original thinkers. and the reading she assigns is both incredibly long but repetitive and tedious. i'm hoping that i get something good out of this class.
milton is fun - a bit overwhelming but fun. i like milton a lot, i like his ideas and philosophies and the type of stories and characters that he writes. however, i am fully reliant on neelakanta to explain those ideas and such, as is i think most of the class. i've never been very good at interpreting literature from several centuries ago - itsmostly nonsense to me. i'm still quite surprised that i survived medieval lit, though i think most of that stuff was translated from old english, so it was easier. no such luck with milton, except for his elegies which are translated from latin.
and screenwriting has been....well not very inspiring at the moment. i have a solid idea for my screenplay (an adaptation of porphyria's lover), however i've been very hesitant to actually write it, which is a problem because i was supposed to have the first three pages in on monday. and i've written nothing so far. ah well. what was that i was saying about running?
my goals are mixed. when i have to do one thing, a suddenly get the urge to another. i started writing that dragon's bait fan fiction that i've been wanting to do. yeah, when i had all these creative writing assignments to get on, i decided to write fan fiction. the day hess congratulated me in class for the english dept award we were reading a story called "clutching and grabbing" by ben greenman which i loved because i related to the character so much. she was a woman who had affairs with married men because she most desired what she couldn't have and was far too curious for her own good. i came into class determined not to say anything about it lest i reveal too much about myself, but of course hess came out with how the style and tone of it reminded him of the story i had written. and people wonder why i'm guarded.
classes have been alright. wrote a piece for hess' class and got sort of strange reaction - people seemed to like it but they couldn't really articulate why. which i guess i can take that as a victory, and that it was just the last class on a friday and i was the last one to read. oh yeah, and one of the pieces i wrote for nonfiction won second place in the english department creative writing....thing. i had forgotten about submitting something by the end of last semester, though i think hess agreed that he was going to nominate everyone from the class. so yeah that came as a bit of surprise. i wonder who got first.
i've sort of been disappointed with sethi's class. which may be mostly because of the people in it. some of them seem to be good writers, but not necessarily original thinkers. and the reading she assigns is both incredibly long but repetitive and tedious. i'm hoping that i get something good out of this class.
milton is fun - a bit overwhelming but fun. i like milton a lot, i like his ideas and philosophies and the type of stories and characters that he writes. however, i am fully reliant on neelakanta to explain those ideas and such, as is i think most of the class. i've never been very good at interpreting literature from several centuries ago - itsmostly nonsense to me. i'm still quite surprised that i survived medieval lit, though i think most of that stuff was translated from old english, so it was easier. no such luck with milton, except for his elegies which are translated from latin.
and screenwriting has been....well not very inspiring at the moment. i have a solid idea for my screenplay (an adaptation of porphyria's lover), however i've been very hesitant to actually write it, which is a problem because i was supposed to have the first three pages in on monday. and i've written nothing so far. ah well. what was that i was saying about running?
my goals are mixed. when i have to do one thing, a suddenly get the urge to another. i started writing that dragon's bait fan fiction that i've been wanting to do. yeah, when i had all these creative writing assignments to get on, i decided to write fan fiction. the day hess congratulated me in class for the english dept award we were reading a story called "clutching and grabbing" by ben greenman which i loved because i related to the character so much. she was a woman who had affairs with married men because she most desired what she couldn't have and was far too curious for her own good. i came into class determined not to say anything about it lest i reveal too much about myself, but of course hess came out with how the style and tone of it reminded him of the story i had written. and people wonder why i'm guarded.