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Nov 20, 2005 16:37

For my creative writing course we have to write a story that's absed on a heroic archetype. It's very frustrating because we have to stick to the archetype strictly. I'm chosing the Caregiver archetype which means my hero(ine)'s quest is to help others, the hero(ine)'s fear is selfishness, and they will face their dragon so it won't harm others. The task of the hero(ine) is to give without maiming self or others, and their virtue is compassion and generosity. I have until Wednesday to write 10 pages. It's very frustrating because no matter how hard I try it won't be good. I should just lift a plot from a Mike Leigh film, but I won't.

SNL was actually quite funny last night. Last season I thought Eva Langoria was the weakest Wisteriaite (this season the honor goes to Teri Hatcher), but she was really game last night. I especially loved the sketch of the infamous Vanity Fair shoot. "I'm Felicity Huffman, please don't make me do something stupid." Speaking of SNL, Ivan found a DVD at Frye's today of a direct-to-video movie that stars two of the UCBers plus Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, Rachel Dratch, David Cross, and Jeneane Gorafolo. I've never even heard of it.

Last night, the Cinefemme screening was really bad. They advertised it as experimental films but none of the movies were experimental at all. This one movie in particular, from NYU, was really mind-numbing. I couldn't believe how frustrated I felt watching it. Just thinking about it again makes me antsy so I won't even bother describing it. However, the only redeeming facet is there was a short film that had Rory in it. It's about many of the Princesses and girl characters of fairy tales (Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, etc.) in group therapy. (Sounds more clever than its execution). Rory played Goldilocks. I checked out the website www.dysenchanted.com and I found that quite amusing.

Back to my story.
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