so i'm back from the dead
midterms are looming, and strangely enough, they're fun this time around. My music exam was easy. Stupid easy. as in little brown furry monkeys could take that test and pass (honestly, that teacher's Quarterly exams were harder).
so all the studying for that test went down the drain.....
My art exam, though... well, i handed that one in on time today (no way, i actually did something on time? wow)
and, thank GOD, seriously...
I finally found the flash drive USB-stick thingy that i thought i had lost to eternity from THANKSGIVING. apparently someone found it at the school where i teach art classes on Thursdays. wow.
And I found my Melodies of Pain story. (I had lost it, my computer crashed, found it, saved it to USB, locked it, lost it again in a crash, and found it again on USB. i hate my laptop)
I really, really need to re-write that story entirely. Ugh. it's staring me in the face like... i don't want to know what.
Several plot bunnies have sprung since then. One's depressing, another is a pointless spinoff of my Blake/Liam story (which is really just done for fun. it has no plot yet) and another is one that has haunted me for years without me ever realizing it.
But the other night, walking in the snow, got me thinking, and images and words just slammed into me like a sledgehammer. so now i must write.
and now i've a new idea that i may or may not integrate.
watched The Gladiator today. after nine years. Now i remember why i love that movie. (the end, the end, i remember it for the end!) then i watched the last twenty minutes of The Patriot. I also remember that three-hour movie for the end (IT'S THE FRENCH! SAILING IN! THE BRITISH ARE RETREATING! HAHAHAHAHA)
yeah. historic movies are probably the reason for my high grades in Global History. But then again, the past has always been my first love. the list is as follows (somewhat in order, not really...)
Egypt, Greece, Rome, Native Americans, Mayans, Aztecs, Olmecs, anything to do with past artists, ancient China, Feudal Japan, America. American history is ridiculously biased, but the Revolutionary war is the best part... anything pre-colonial, colonial, post-colonial and pre-industrial revolution.
(maybe it's cause i used to live in Va and it's all "JAMESTOWN!" and "COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG!" and "OMG, SALT-BOX HOUSES AND THE MONTICELLO!!!!!" haha. And now that i live in NY suburbia, one tends to see things like old cannons and other Revolutionary war sties. It's better in New Jersey & Massachusetts but whatever. I'll go there one day.
so all the studying for that test went down the drain.....
My art exam, though... well, i handed that one in on time today (no way, i actually did something on time? wow)
and, thank GOD, seriously...
I finally found the flash drive USB-stick thingy that i thought i had lost to eternity from THANKSGIVING. apparently someone found it at the school where i teach art classes on Thursdays. wow.
And I found my Melodies of Pain story. (I had lost it, my computer crashed, found it, saved it to USB, locked it, lost it again in a crash, and found it again on USB. i hate my laptop)
I really, really need to re-write that story entirely. Ugh. it's staring me in the face like... i don't want to know what.
Several plot bunnies have sprung since then. One's depressing, another is a pointless spinoff of my Blake/Liam story (which is really just done for fun. it has no plot yet) and another is one that has haunted me for years without me ever realizing it.
But the other night, walking in the snow, got me thinking, and images and words just slammed into me like a sledgehammer. so now i must write.
and now i've a new idea that i may or may not integrate.
watched The Gladiator today. after nine years. Now i remember why i love that movie. (the end, the end, i remember it for the end!) then i watched the last twenty minutes of The Patriot. I also remember that three-hour movie for the end (IT'S THE FRENCH! SAILING IN! THE BRITISH ARE RETREATING! HAHAHAHAHA)
yeah. historic movies are probably the reason for my high grades in Global History. But then again, the past has always been my first love. the list is as follows (somewhat in order, not really...)
Egypt, Greece, Rome, Native Americans, Mayans, Aztecs, Olmecs, anything to do with past artists, ancient China, Feudal Japan, America. American history is ridiculously biased, but the Revolutionary war is the best part... anything pre-colonial, colonial, post-colonial and pre-industrial revolution.
(maybe it's cause i used to live in Va and it's all "JAMESTOWN!" and "COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG!" and "OMG, SALT-BOX HOUSES AND THE MONTICELLO!!!!!" haha. And now that i live in NY suburbia, one tends to see things like old cannons and other Revolutionary war sties. It's better in New Jersey & Massachusetts but whatever. I'll go there one day.