i've had this piece of music stuck in my head all day
It's very soothing. Most of LOST's music is very calm, which is why the jarring stuff really pokes you in the ear like getting whopped with Eko's Jesus stick. The quick trombone falls that come before commercial breaks are sweet. (I downloaded the first three seasons' soundtracks, but I think season 1's is still the best.)
I'm taking Tae Kwon Do again for the first time since I was 10 and loving it so very much. I can test for yellow belt soon, and then I'll be even with my 10-year-old self -- and I can get that green belt I was cut short before I could test for when I was little. That'll be nice. :)
I'm busy busy busy busy but so far I haven't hit a point where all of my work is literally too much to physically do in a 24-hour day, and I get 8 hours of sleep a night, so I'm thinking I haven't bitten off more than I can chew... yet.
My schedule:
• 9:30-10:45 Tue/Thur - Theatre History. Regular tests and dramaturg papers (researching a play's production history; 2 pages). Thankfully predictable.
• 12:30-1:45 Tue/Thur - Fiction Writing Workshop. Writing stories is always, always a bitch. Especially original work, especially with all the reading and exercises we do in that class. This is a time-sucking class.
• 6-8 p.m. Tue - Lord of the Rings. My one truly for-fun-only elective. We haven't had a writing assignment yet and I can always put the reading on the bottom of my priority list because I've read the books so many times before. Plus I get to take a break sometime and watch the movies again. FOR CREDIT. Hell yes.
• Online - Spanish II. The website we have to work from is the scum of the earth. I have wasted entire weekends' worth of valuable time trying to make it stop being a little shit. It's still a little shit. I learn the Spanish about 10 times faster than I am able to use the website and I am so pissed that I had a schedule conflict that prevented me from taking the real classroom-meeting version of this course. I have a test to take tomorrow, too.
• Online - Postcolonial Lit. Lots of reading, regular quizzes, writing multiple posts about the reading, papers and presentations. Right now I'm doing my first presentation and I chose to write it up as a small series of websites, only I'm writing the HTML raw and my knowledge of the language is rusty, so it's taking about a thousand times longer than I'd expected. I should be able to finish it with one or two more half-day sessions, though.
• Theatre 400 - I'm keeping my head down because no one's told me what I'm supposed to be doing for the current show, even though this class is purely credit for working on shows. I'm just worried about where I would fit this class in.
• CAAP Test - Sometime in March, one-time thing, not too worried.
• 8-9:40 a.m. Mon/Wed/Fri - Literary Theory. I'm going to want to shoot myself when this starts; it's accelerated term, which means it starts in March but is 2 hours 3 days a week with accelerated amounts of homework. The professor is really hard, too.
• The Spectator - Campus newspaper. It's a paying job, looks good on a resume and is good practice for actually employable writing skills, which creative writing is not. Plus I can review movies I wanted to see anyway. The writing does take time, though, and there are meetings on Mon, Tue & Wed nights.
• The Dilettanti - Campus literary magazine. I'm not the only person working on it, but I REALLY wanted to be involved because I was the editor in chief of my high school's lit magazine and it was my favorite extracurricular. However, the other few people working on the Dilettanti really haven't shown much initiative, so so far it's been me doing most of the work. I made the flier and the submissions are coming to my e-mail address, so I have to keep track of them.
• Tae Kwon Do - Tue/Thur 4-5 p.m., Thur 5-6 if I want to watch the advanced class (of little kids who've been doing this for way longer than me) spar, which I do, because it's really helpful to watch and learn from them.
That's the stuff I'm doing that's really official in some way.
Things I want to be doing right now:
-Reading Shade's Children and then picking another book, probably Shadow of the Torturer
-Watching LOST - I'm marathoning seasons 1-4 because I missed a lot and I've just picked the show up again with the beginning of 5
-Reading Lord of the Rings (which is unfortunately at the bottom of my schoolwork priority list, even though it's assigned reading)
-Sleeping more, even though I've got myself in a purely utilitarian routine of going to sleep at midnight and getting up at 8 every morning. Great for time management - sucks ass for enjoying the deliciousness of sleep.
-Reading The Rivals if I didn't have to write a paper on it, because of Mrs. Malaprop
-Researching Nigerian/Igbo culture if I didn't have to make this neverending presentation on it
-Writing stories if I didn't have to turn them in for workshopping
-Read A Grain of Wheat if I didn't have to write endless discussion posts about it
-Ride my bike (hi, Freddie Mercury)
-Watching & reviewing Coraline
-Watching Farscape with A. or West Wing with B. (18th & Potomac, whut.)
-Making, like, crazy lists and theory charts and shit about LOST and possibly drawing up another chart whereby I prove that every episode of Supernatural was taken directly from an episode of The X-Files.
-Attempting to hunt down copies of House, Monk, Psych and/or Battlestar Galactica because these are all shows I should really watch more of.
-Cross-stitch and coloring books. Hey, I love coloring books. Especially ones with dinosaurs.
-Start re-reading the next Dresden I'm up to, Proven Guilty.
Things I don't want to do at all (because they're work or because I have so little free time that I'd rather not spend it on non-work things that I don't enjoy):
-Finish Paper Towns, because I read part 1 and it just isn't my thing
-Watch any more Angel
-Watch Buffy season 7 again because I will bodily injure someone or put my foot through the TV if I ever have to see Kennedy's face ever again
-Continue slogging through this Nigeria presentation at the speed of molasses when I could be researching for my own benefit at the speed of thought
-Try to come up with an original story I can turn in for Fiction class
-Research and write a paper on The Rivals; these dramaturg papers are short, but they are always PACKED with citations, which takes a while
-Study for this upcoming Theatre History test because we've reached the point in Europe's history where I just get bogged down in names and confusion - 1700-1760 or so. I'm not good with the whole bit between Shakespeare and the 20th century, really.
-Take this Spanish test
-Finish Academ's Fury, to be honest. I gave it a fair second shot, but Jim's high fantasy really doesn't do anything for me. It has very little sense of humor and what's there just isn't on my frequency, not like Dresden is.
I probably just stepped on a lot of toes there, but, well. It's my list.
And on a LOST note, I just realized something earlier today. LOST is unique among nearly all TV shows I watch in that I cannot think of a single pair of guys that I would willingly slash. I mean, Jack/Locke and Jack/Sawyer would really just be to spit in the faces of Jack/Kate/Sawyer and Jack-Locke rivalry fans, but I wouldn't actually ship them. I think Sayid, Locke & Eko were/are awesome on their own, and Jack and Sawyer (and Kate) are among my least favorite characters - always have been. Ben, Hurley, even these freighter scientist people whose introductions I utterly missed so I have no opinion of them... just, seriously, there are no functional slashings here. None. I hereby prove that I do NOT wear slash goggles. My slash pairings are legitimately though-out, because if I shipped based on looks alone regardless of character, I would be able to see something in this show. But I don't.
Also, this show contains the single highest ratio of canonical heterosexual couples that I LOVE and would not change for the world of any TV show I watch. Like, even my God of All TV, Farscape, only had the one couple I shipped like burning. Same with X-Files. On LOST, there's Penny/Desmond, Jin/Sun and Rose/Bernard as canon couples, and even adorable little intrigues like Charlie/Claire and Hurley/Libby (and Ben/Juliett in an OMG CREEPY GTF AWAY FROM ME BENRY sort of way). The only ones I despise are, again, anything to do with Jack, Kate or Sawyer, and I was never a big fan of Sayid/Shannon (though Nadia was all right).
Anyway. Random note is random, but true. Canon het couples are a go, slash does not exist for me in this show. News at 11.
Now I am very tired and I'm going to sleep because I have to continue slogging through this shitload of work tomorrow.
-rave
I'm taking Tae Kwon Do again for the first time since I was 10 and loving it so very much. I can test for yellow belt soon, and then I'll be even with my 10-year-old self -- and I can get that green belt I was cut short before I could test for when I was little. That'll be nice. :)
I'm busy busy busy busy but so far I haven't hit a point where all of my work is literally too much to physically do in a 24-hour day, and I get 8 hours of sleep a night, so I'm thinking I haven't bitten off more than I can chew... yet.
My schedule:
• 9:30-10:45 Tue/Thur - Theatre History. Regular tests and dramaturg papers (researching a play's production history; 2 pages). Thankfully predictable.
• 12:30-1:45 Tue/Thur - Fiction Writing Workshop. Writing stories is always, always a bitch. Especially original work, especially with all the reading and exercises we do in that class. This is a time-sucking class.
• 6-8 p.m. Tue - Lord of the Rings. My one truly for-fun-only elective. We haven't had a writing assignment yet and I can always put the reading on the bottom of my priority list because I've read the books so many times before. Plus I get to take a break sometime and watch the movies again. FOR CREDIT. Hell yes.
• Online - Spanish II. The website we have to work from is the scum of the earth. I have wasted entire weekends' worth of valuable time trying to make it stop being a little shit. It's still a little shit. I learn the Spanish about 10 times faster than I am able to use the website and I am so pissed that I had a schedule conflict that prevented me from taking the real classroom-meeting version of this course. I have a test to take tomorrow, too.
• Online - Postcolonial Lit. Lots of reading, regular quizzes, writing multiple posts about the reading, papers and presentations. Right now I'm doing my first presentation and I chose to write it up as a small series of websites, only I'm writing the HTML raw and my knowledge of the language is rusty, so it's taking about a thousand times longer than I'd expected. I should be able to finish it with one or two more half-day sessions, though.
• Theatre 400 - I'm keeping my head down because no one's told me what I'm supposed to be doing for the current show, even though this class is purely credit for working on shows. I'm just worried about where I would fit this class in.
• CAAP Test - Sometime in March, one-time thing, not too worried.
• 8-9:40 a.m. Mon/Wed/Fri - Literary Theory. I'm going to want to shoot myself when this starts; it's accelerated term, which means it starts in March but is 2 hours 3 days a week with accelerated amounts of homework. The professor is really hard, too.
• The Spectator - Campus newspaper. It's a paying job, looks good on a resume and is good practice for actually employable writing skills, which creative writing is not. Plus I can review movies I wanted to see anyway. The writing does take time, though, and there are meetings on Mon, Tue & Wed nights.
• The Dilettanti - Campus literary magazine. I'm not the only person working on it, but I REALLY wanted to be involved because I was the editor in chief of my high school's lit magazine and it was my favorite extracurricular. However, the other few people working on the Dilettanti really haven't shown much initiative, so so far it's been me doing most of the work. I made the flier and the submissions are coming to my e-mail address, so I have to keep track of them.
• Tae Kwon Do - Tue/Thur 4-5 p.m., Thur 5-6 if I want to watch the advanced class (of little kids who've been doing this for way longer than me) spar, which I do, because it's really helpful to watch and learn from them.
That's the stuff I'm doing that's really official in some way.
Things I want to be doing right now:
-Reading Shade's Children and then picking another book, probably Shadow of the Torturer
-Watching LOST - I'm marathoning seasons 1-4 because I missed a lot and I've just picked the show up again with the beginning of 5
-Reading Lord of the Rings (which is unfortunately at the bottom of my schoolwork priority list, even though it's assigned reading)
-Sleeping more, even though I've got myself in a purely utilitarian routine of going to sleep at midnight and getting up at 8 every morning. Great for time management - sucks ass for enjoying the deliciousness of sleep.
-Reading The Rivals if I didn't have to write a paper on it, because of Mrs. Malaprop
-Researching Nigerian/Igbo culture if I didn't have to make this neverending presentation on it
-Writing stories if I didn't have to turn them in for workshopping
-Read A Grain of Wheat if I didn't have to write endless discussion posts about it
-Ride my bike (hi, Freddie Mercury)
-Watching & reviewing Coraline
-Watching Farscape with A. or West Wing with B. (18th & Potomac, whut.)
-Making, like, crazy lists and theory charts and shit about LOST and possibly drawing up another chart whereby I prove that every episode of Supernatural was taken directly from an episode of The X-Files.
-Attempting to hunt down copies of House, Monk, Psych and/or Battlestar Galactica because these are all shows I should really watch more of.
-Cross-stitch and coloring books. Hey, I love coloring books. Especially ones with dinosaurs.
-Start re-reading the next Dresden I'm up to, Proven Guilty.
Things I don't want to do at all (because they're work or because I have so little free time that I'd rather not spend it on non-work things that I don't enjoy):
-Finish Paper Towns, because I read part 1 and it just isn't my thing
-Watch any more Angel
-Watch Buffy season 7 again because I will bodily injure someone or put my foot through the TV if I ever have to see Kennedy's face ever again
-Continue slogging through this Nigeria presentation at the speed of molasses when I could be researching for my own benefit at the speed of thought
-Try to come up with an original story I can turn in for Fiction class
-Research and write a paper on The Rivals; these dramaturg papers are short, but they are always PACKED with citations, which takes a while
-Study for this upcoming Theatre History test because we've reached the point in Europe's history where I just get bogged down in names and confusion - 1700-1760 or so. I'm not good with the whole bit between Shakespeare and the 20th century, really.
-Take this Spanish test
-Finish Academ's Fury, to be honest. I gave it a fair second shot, but Jim's high fantasy really doesn't do anything for me. It has very little sense of humor and what's there just isn't on my frequency, not like Dresden is.
I probably just stepped on a lot of toes there, but, well. It's my list.
And on a LOST note, I just realized something earlier today. LOST is unique among nearly all TV shows I watch in that I cannot think of a single pair of guys that I would willingly slash. I mean, Jack/Locke and Jack/Sawyer would really just be to spit in the faces of Jack/Kate/Sawyer and Jack-Locke rivalry fans, but I wouldn't actually ship them. I think Sayid, Locke & Eko were/are awesome on their own, and Jack and Sawyer (and Kate) are among my least favorite characters - always have been. Ben, Hurley, even these freighter scientist people whose introductions I utterly missed so I have no opinion of them... just, seriously, there are no functional slashings here. None. I hereby prove that I do NOT wear slash goggles. My slash pairings are legitimately though-out, because if I shipped based on looks alone regardless of character, I would be able to see something in this show. But I don't.
Also, this show contains the single highest ratio of canonical heterosexual couples that I LOVE and would not change for the world of any TV show I watch. Like, even my God of All TV, Farscape, only had the one couple I shipped like burning. Same with X-Files. On LOST, there's Penny/Desmond, Jin/Sun and Rose/Bernard as canon couples, and even adorable little intrigues like Charlie/Claire and Hurley/Libby (and Ben/Juliett in an OMG CREEPY GTF AWAY FROM ME BENRY sort of way). The only ones I despise are, again, anything to do with Jack, Kate or Sawyer, and I was never a big fan of Sayid/Shannon (though Nadia was all right).
Anyway. Random note is random, but true. Canon het couples are a go, slash does not exist for me in this show. News at 11.
Now I am very tired and I'm going to sleep because I have to continue slogging through this shitload of work tomorrow.
-rave