Resurfacing
Hi all. LJ is sort of not really my thing...and I'm about to be even further from e-contact, since I won't have an office after next week...but I checked in today and was reminded how many friends I have here...so this is an update, and I will try to keep up better...
I started graduate school this week. It's going to be fun and lots of work; the Religious Studies program is basically paying for me to go get a graduate degree in something else--RELS does not have a program of its own, you see. So I have started in two programs: Master of Professional Writing (MPW) and Ph.D. in English with a focus in Composition, Rhetoric, and Literacy (CRL). I have applied for both programs, and there is also a Ph.D. in Journalism that has a Media focus which might be interesting...I have to be admited to a real program, and that actually happens in the fall. Right now I'm just taking classes.
I finished my translation of Lysistrata last fall, and my Classics prof was so impressed he sent it to the Film department with the recommendation that they see about making a movie with it. Don't know that anything will come of it, but it's a nice testimonial. I have a short reader's theater piece mostly done and another play in work; I have been writing poetry like gangbusters, and my MPW class is Writing the Novel, so I will indulge my love for the act of writing.
The CRL class is Issues in CRL, which means reading lots of theory and talking about the post-process movement and its relation to post-modernism and post-structuralism...lots of head stuff. Can be fun, but I can't really take it too seriously, which may the be healthiest way to do this kind of thing.
I'm also the GA for two RELS classes, which is not a great hardship--kinda fun, actually--but I have to do all their reading as well as mine as well as the writing, so it's going to be a kind of busy semester.
As far as theater/performing goes, I am directing (and appearing in) the Vagina Monologues at OU (Feb 11-12). I did not get cast in the only show I auditioned for, and I don't plan to audition again this spring except for OSP, and (if I get cast) I can only work in the last show (Richard III, late summer) anyway. I may sing with OU's Women's Chorus, which is a volunteer choir, but I have not decided yet. Bards may or may not have March gigs that I may or may not be able to participate in; no conversation about Norman's med faire, which I assume is off the table due to school things.
The other big deal is that I am going to Ireland for a couple of weeks at the end of May. The RELS program has a tour going, and I have already bought my plane ticket. I expect to buy a bodhran there and have it shipped home.
I'll try to let you know whether or not I survive.
Peaces,
h.
I started graduate school this week. It's going to be fun and lots of work; the Religious Studies program is basically paying for me to go get a graduate degree in something else--RELS does not have a program of its own, you see. So I have started in two programs: Master of Professional Writing (MPW) and Ph.D. in English with a focus in Composition, Rhetoric, and Literacy (CRL). I have applied for both programs, and there is also a Ph.D. in Journalism that has a Media focus which might be interesting...I have to be admited to a real program, and that actually happens in the fall. Right now I'm just taking classes.
I finished my translation of Lysistrata last fall, and my Classics prof was so impressed he sent it to the Film department with the recommendation that they see about making a movie with it. Don't know that anything will come of it, but it's a nice testimonial. I have a short reader's theater piece mostly done and another play in work; I have been writing poetry like gangbusters, and my MPW class is Writing the Novel, so I will indulge my love for the act of writing.
The CRL class is Issues in CRL, which means reading lots of theory and talking about the post-process movement and its relation to post-modernism and post-structuralism...lots of head stuff. Can be fun, but I can't really take it too seriously, which may the be healthiest way to do this kind of thing.
I'm also the GA for two RELS classes, which is not a great hardship--kinda fun, actually--but I have to do all their reading as well as mine as well as the writing, so it's going to be a kind of busy semester.
As far as theater/performing goes, I am directing (and appearing in) the Vagina Monologues at OU (Feb 11-12). I did not get cast in the only show I auditioned for, and I don't plan to audition again this spring except for OSP, and (if I get cast) I can only work in the last show (Richard III, late summer) anyway. I may sing with OU's Women's Chorus, which is a volunteer choir, but I have not decided yet. Bards may or may not have March gigs that I may or may not be able to participate in; no conversation about Norman's med faire, which I assume is off the table due to school things.
The other big deal is that I am going to Ireland for a couple of weeks at the end of May. The RELS program has a tour going, and I have already bought my plane ticket. I expect to buy a bodhran there and have it shipped home.
I'll try to let you know whether or not I survive.
Peaces,
h.