Slacker Day...#2
So today is the second day in row that I've skipped a class which is bad for me...bad for anyone really...I mean I'm paying all this money to take classes and I don't go...I just couldn't bring myself to do it lately...why does it have to be so hard to wake up in the morning???
Anyway, I dragged myself to VisCom at 8:10 this morning...only to watch a movie about corporate identities and get back a quiz in which Alex described our effort as a class on the quiz as "almost catastrophic"...he doesn't like to sugar coat things lol...Meh, I spent most of class concentrating on his Russian accent. There's always a word or two every class that he says in a way that makes me laugh...today it was Millennium...sounds like "Mil-lane-ium"...nice...
After VisCom I was kinda excited b/c today was my turn to have my story critiqued in creative writing...I was really proud of my effort on this story and i was curious to hear what everyone had to say. I've really come to respect the opinions of (most of) the people in that little class (16 of us)...I wanted to hear their comments/criticisms and ideas on how to improve...so anyway we go to class and our prof tells us that he has some sort of strep throat thing and that his eyes are starting to swell up and he needs to go to the doc, so he's cancelling class. Noooo! So he hands back our papers from the previous class, warning us not to touch our faces afterwards...and we have to leave...grrr. Luckily we have an extra day at the end of the semester so we'll prob do my critique that day. We also have weekly posts on blackboard and some people are going to comment on there this week.
At least I got to get some people's critiques of my story. Let me explain a bit...each day in class we critique a different person's story...and on the day we do that person's story, each person comes in with a "critique" of the story. Now it's not really a critique for this second round of stories. We have the option of either re-writing a scene from the story in a different point of view or add a scene to the story. I used to think that this was a little less effective than a straightforward critique, but after reading the ones I got today...I've changed my mind. I loved how everyone put their own spin on my story and such...it got my head spinning with ideas...I can't to read the other half of them. Reading bits of my story interpreted by others really made me step outside of it. When you write something you tend to get a bit wrapped up in it and you almost lose a bit of it along the way. I'm seeing the story a lot more clearly now. I did before I started writing, then when I started writing it got a little muddled in the words...I just wish I could have had my critique...it sucks to sit through but it's necessary lol.
Gahh OK so I just wrote a lot about something probably no one cares about....deal with it!
So anyway I skipped positioning...it's boring! I came home but now i feel like a slacker.
This weekend...o man, Nicole is coming home...sooo siked!!!! We are going to have an awesome time! And we might even start some trouble since thats what some people think we do when we're together haha...:making a mischievous face: muhahahha I want to party hard this weekend...oh and I'm going to New York on Saturday for the day too...woo hoo!
GRRR I just woke up from a good long nap...but I slept in my jeans which was a bad idea...hate when i do that...it hurts!
OK well I guess I'll stop talking now...have a good night everyone
Anyway, I dragged myself to VisCom at 8:10 this morning...only to watch a movie about corporate identities and get back a quiz in which Alex described our effort as a class on the quiz as "almost catastrophic"...he doesn't like to sugar coat things lol...Meh, I spent most of class concentrating on his Russian accent. There's always a word or two every class that he says in a way that makes me laugh...today it was Millennium...sounds like "Mil-lane-ium"...nice...
After VisCom I was kinda excited b/c today was my turn to have my story critiqued in creative writing...I was really proud of my effort on this story and i was curious to hear what everyone had to say. I've really come to respect the opinions of (most of) the people in that little class (16 of us)...I wanted to hear their comments/criticisms and ideas on how to improve...so anyway we go to class and our prof tells us that he has some sort of strep throat thing and that his eyes are starting to swell up and he needs to go to the doc, so he's cancelling class. Noooo! So he hands back our papers from the previous class, warning us not to touch our faces afterwards...and we have to leave...grrr. Luckily we have an extra day at the end of the semester so we'll prob do my critique that day. We also have weekly posts on blackboard and some people are going to comment on there this week.
At least I got to get some people's critiques of my story. Let me explain a bit...each day in class we critique a different person's story...and on the day we do that person's story, each person comes in with a "critique" of the story. Now it's not really a critique for this second round of stories. We have the option of either re-writing a scene from the story in a different point of view or add a scene to the story. I used to think that this was a little less effective than a straightforward critique, but after reading the ones I got today...I've changed my mind. I loved how everyone put their own spin on my story and such...it got my head spinning with ideas...I can't to read the other half of them. Reading bits of my story interpreted by others really made me step outside of it. When you write something you tend to get a bit wrapped up in it and you almost lose a bit of it along the way. I'm seeing the story a lot more clearly now. I did before I started writing, then when I started writing it got a little muddled in the words...I just wish I could have had my critique...it sucks to sit through but it's necessary lol.
Gahh OK so I just wrote a lot about something probably no one cares about....deal with it!
So anyway I skipped positioning...it's boring! I came home but now i feel like a slacker.
This weekend...o man, Nicole is coming home...sooo siked!!!! We are going to have an awesome time! And we might even start some trouble since thats what some people think we do when we're together haha...:making a mischievous face: muhahahha I want to party hard this weekend...oh and I'm going to New York on Saturday for the day too...woo hoo!
GRRR I just woke up from a good long nap...but I slept in my jeans which was a bad idea...hate when i do that...it hurts!
OK well I guess I'll stop talking now...have a good night everyone