Well, okay.
It's not after the OBOC show yet, but I find myself with some time (read: I'm procrastinating) so I might as well fill it with some blogging.
So things have been pretty cool here in Trad Redav Land. We're in the middle of November, now, so let's look at all the stuff I've got going on:
NaNoWriMo: Heh heh. I wrote some, back at the beginning of the month, but have not since. I don't actually care much. Conveniently, while I have too much else going on to write, I also have too much else going on to stress about not writing. Also, while the premise of my nano idea is very nano-ish, I can just as easily write it some other time. (Let's take a moment to recall my success record for writing things outside November. Okay. Now let's remember my success record for the last two Novembers. Okay? Just as easily.) In fact, it may even be easier after next semester; part of the idea is in fact related to school theater--namely school theater doing a play that doesn't exist, which means I have to make it up, which because I'm crazy means I have to write it. This will probably go more smoothly after I've taken the playwriting class I'm taking next semester, because I really don't have any sense of how to write a full-length play. Or, you know, I'm just doing what I always do and thinking up new and varied reasons to put off writing.
Dragon Age: More progress here, though not much in the last few days. Talking about the game won't make much sense to all of you who aren't playing it, so I will just say that it is more or less as awesome as expected.
OBOC: We're in Pink Fluffy Bunny Rabbit Week right now, right in the middle of it, so this is where most of my current busy is coming from. I don't have evenings anymore, and won't until Sunday--Friday is the show, and Saturday I work like usual. (I'm assuming I'm not so tired after the show I can't continue on to work the next night...) We're in pretty good shape, I think. A lot of songs have small problems, but none are falling apart or anything, and we should be able to pull it together by Friday. On the other hand, skits... the skits committee this semester was pretty much fail. We have nine skits in the show this semester. I wrote one of them that ended up getting put in, until one of the other guys--the one who wrote the other eight--took it and said he'd fix it up a bit. Next thing I know it's not my skit anymore. It's the version one of the other people wrote, and it is no longer funny. Please note that I'm not being bitter just because none of the skits actually have anything to do with me anymore--it's a contributing factor, but it's also been long enough since I wrote the thing that I can objectively say mine was better. It also required a bit more in terms of tech--it needed a song played in the background. Oh no! That's too much to ask! It's too much to ask when for the other skits they're already giving Event Support a CD with all the sound cues on there... gah. I need to not rant. It's just I don't actually understand the rationale. At the skits committee meeting at which the two of us who wrote versions of the skit showed the other two what they were, the other version got a very meh reception. Mine got a very enthusiastic reception. And then suddenly we're using the other one. Why!? I don't know!
...Meh. Last year there was one skit I could point to and say "I wrote that!" and various others I helped develop in the committee. This semester I might as well not have been on it at all. It was a four-person committee that ended up being effectively a two-person collaboration and I eagerly await the day the OBOC skits committee actually functions as intended.
Well. Anyway.
Classes: These... vary. You have Greek, in which we don't receive any grades, but I think I'm doing okay. We have AGPhil, where the subject is very interesting but my grade will probably not be very happy. We have Linguistics, where I earlier today took a midterm and unless I did terribly I did very well indeed. We have BCS, where I have a midterm later today and will hopefully do better than last time. And there's logic, where we don't actually have a second midterm, just an exam the last week of class right before the final, though of course it's still called a midterm. (...) I should be paying more attention to classes in general, and I will after OBOC is done ruling my life for the semester.
In the meantime, I should translate some Greek so I can go back and re-study for BCS so I can take my midterm so I can relax a bit before scrambling to get ready for tonight's rehearsal in which we will attempt to run the show twice in a row.
Cheers?
So things have been pretty cool here in Trad Redav Land. We're in the middle of November, now, so let's look at all the stuff I've got going on:
NaNoWriMo: Heh heh. I wrote some, back at the beginning of the month, but have not since. I don't actually care much. Conveniently, while I have too much else going on to write, I also have too much else going on to stress about not writing. Also, while the premise of my nano idea is very nano-ish, I can just as easily write it some other time. (Let's take a moment to recall my success record for writing things outside November. Okay. Now let's remember my success record for the last two Novembers. Okay? Just as easily.) In fact, it may even be easier after next semester; part of the idea is in fact related to school theater--namely school theater doing a play that doesn't exist, which means I have to make it up, which because I'm crazy means I have to write it. This will probably go more smoothly after I've taken the playwriting class I'm taking next semester, because I really don't have any sense of how to write a full-length play. Or, you know, I'm just doing what I always do and thinking up new and varied reasons to put off writing.
Dragon Age: More progress here, though not much in the last few days. Talking about the game won't make much sense to all of you who aren't playing it, so I will just say that it is more or less as awesome as expected.
OBOC: We're in Pink Fluffy Bunny Rabbit Week right now, right in the middle of it, so this is where most of my current busy is coming from. I don't have evenings anymore, and won't until Sunday--Friday is the show, and Saturday I work like usual. (I'm assuming I'm not so tired after the show I can't continue on to work the next night...) We're in pretty good shape, I think. A lot of songs have small problems, but none are falling apart or anything, and we should be able to pull it together by Friday. On the other hand, skits... the skits committee this semester was pretty much fail. We have nine skits in the show this semester. I wrote one of them that ended up getting put in, until one of the other guys--the one who wrote the other eight--took it and said he'd fix it up a bit. Next thing I know it's not my skit anymore. It's the version one of the other people wrote, and it is no longer funny. Please note that I'm not being bitter just because none of the skits actually have anything to do with me anymore--it's a contributing factor, but it's also been long enough since I wrote the thing that I can objectively say mine was better. It also required a bit more in terms of tech--it needed a song played in the background. Oh no! That's too much to ask! It's too much to ask when for the other skits they're already giving Event Support a CD with all the sound cues on there... gah. I need to not rant. It's just I don't actually understand the rationale. At the skits committee meeting at which the two of us who wrote versions of the skit showed the other two what they were, the other version got a very meh reception. Mine got a very enthusiastic reception. And then suddenly we're using the other one. Why!? I don't know!
...Meh. Last year there was one skit I could point to and say "I wrote that!" and various others I helped develop in the committee. This semester I might as well not have been on it at all. It was a four-person committee that ended up being effectively a two-person collaboration and I eagerly await the day the OBOC skits committee actually functions as intended.
Well. Anyway.
Classes: These... vary. You have Greek, in which we don't receive any grades, but I think I'm doing okay. We have AGPhil, where the subject is very interesting but my grade will probably not be very happy. We have Linguistics, where I earlier today took a midterm and unless I did terribly I did very well indeed. We have BCS, where I have a midterm later today and will hopefully do better than last time. And there's logic, where we don't actually have a second midterm, just an exam the last week of class right before the final, though of course it's still called a midterm. (...) I should be paying more attention to classes in general, and I will after OBOC is done ruling my life for the semester.
In the meantime, I should translate some Greek so I can go back and re-study for BCS so I can take my midterm so I can relax a bit before scrambling to get ready for tonight's rehearsal in which we will attempt to run the show twice in a row.
Cheers?