Wow.... Just wow.... I didn't even realize it had been so long since my last....
UPDATE!!!!! 'cause I know how much you care about my lifeSo, you remember that really long rant I went on a while back? No? Good, 'cause it never happened. But anyway, I'm basically determined now to turn my life around and set things straight. I've stopped worrying about all the troubles from high school all the time, leaving it only for my visits. I'm trying to be more sociable too, though I don't quite know how that's working.... My ultimate goal is to get an actual real-life girlfriend (laugh now, SGK), but I guess we're taking this one step at a time.
Oh, and I've started holding doors for people again. I used to do that all the time in my freshman year at Calhoun, but I stopped 'cause I always wound up holding it for 20 people and being late to class. I don't really know exactly why that's relevant, but it just is somehow.
So.... Is it working? Actually, yes. For whatever reason, I've been a lot happier this past month! Things are looking up for no real reason whatsoever! And next semester is filled with new *insert cliche here*.
Speaking of next semester.... Well, this semester was the Audio Semester for those of us A-K, so next up is the Visual Semester. I'm taking Frame & Sequence as my core production class, working with cameras in sort of more of a photography environment.
Then I've got Language of Film, which is apparently a very boring seminar, but the lecture complements my current Storytelling Strategies in that it's basically a movie night.
Next comes another Freshman Colloquium, which I've heard doesn't really have a focus but is awesome 'cause of the guy who teaches it. (Some of you may have heard about my sneaking into a class to meet Joel Coen - that was this one. I've heard rumors we're getting Martin Scorcese next semester, but it's too early to be sure.)
Then it's another Writing the Essay class, which sucks but at least I won't need to take it ever again assuming I pass.
And finally, for my General Education requirement, I'm taking Calculus! And not just that, but Calc
II! Yeah, I'm gonna be the ONLY film guy taking Calculus.... Heck, I'll be the only Tisch guy altogether! "Hey, what's your major?" "Film!" "What the hell are you doing here??"
So those are my classes.... As for the schedule.... I had this really awesome one worked out, paralleling my schedule this semester, but even better! It was no Friday classes, only one short Monday class, nothing before 12:30 except on Wednesdays when I start Frame & Sequence at 9:30, and only the movie night for night classes. Yeah, that would've been great.... But when it was my turn to register, the Calc class I wanted was closed, so I had to schedule for a later time and wind up with two additional night classes. Which, in theory, isn't THAT bad, but I wanted more! So, I figured out a way to rearrange my entire schedule to minimize night classes! Then I put through and it worked! Then I realized it was actually a much worse schedule, and that I wouldn't be having dinner on Wednesdays! So I tried to change it back, and it mostly went through! But my Writing the Essay class had now been taken! So I screamed and yelled and pounded my computer, as all the others were full unless I gave up my Wednesday dinner. Then one opened at 8 am. I begrudgingly took it. Luckily, I kept checking back to Albert to see if anything else had opened, and I managed to get one Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 9:30. So, it's not the awesome schedule I'd hoped for.... But at least I still have dinner every night, and don't need to wake up at 7. And I DO still have Fridays off! It just sucks that if I hadn't tried to "fix" it, then I would've gotten a better time!
Anyway, that mess is what I was referring to with my "I hate Albert" comments last month. There's basically no chance of anything opening up now, but I still check back to be sure. Now, for the brightest note of the day....
You guys remember Ariel? First true love, friend zone, bursts of insanity, manic depression, epic depression, still hates me, yada-yada-yada-yada.... Yeah, we're friends again. I don't really know how it happened, but I don't really care.
What's weird though is that I think I'm actually over her now. What's weirder is that I realized that just a few hours before she came up to me and said, "Let's start over." Pure coincidence. Or spiritual energies. You choose.
So, yeah, I'm pretty happy about that. Definitely PART of why I've been so inexplicably joyous at random times throughout this past month, but I don't think it's the whole.
I kind of just feel like something's changing, and not for the worse but for the better. Like I'm just gonna wake up one day and everything's going to be right with the world, and it's going to STAY that way at least for some time. As though this entire era of my life is finally fading away, that I'm finally going to move on and live my life. But it's not going to just HAPPEN - I'm going to MAKE it happen! Somehow, sometime soon, I'm just going to make something really good happen that will change my life forever. That's how I feel. It's so.... liberating.
But for now, I've got other things to focus on. I'm not in Frame & Sequence yet - still Sound Image. And I have been inspired by Calhoun's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream to base my own final project off of it, A Midwinter Night's Dream. (Hey, just 'cause I'm not worrying about high school doesn't mean I don't miss home!)
Basically, Puck, disguised as a merchant, is selling the love flower from Midsummer's six months later (though not for the first time). Helena and Demetrius thus find out about it and begin to piece together how their love came about. Then you find out that ALL of the lovers were under the flower's influence even BEFORE Midsummer's began! I thus bring into question the problem of what is true love, and does this spell really mean anything. Meanwhile, Oberon is very angry with Puck, and if it doesn't work out, he's in really big trouble.
So I wrote up a five-page script, which I actually showed to some of you! I've gotten some very positive feedback, so I'm excited to see how this turns out. Though I am kinda worried about timing on it, I've calculated via my Calc II-worthy math skills that if we spend 5 seconds for every 2 lines of iambic pentameter, that comes out to approximately 4 minutes (approximately because some of Puck's and Oberon's lines aren't in iambic pentameter). That will hopefully give time for the credits once the breaks between lines are added in. It's able to be a maximum of 5 minutes, so if I have time left over, I do have a nice 8-line Puck monologue which directly parodies the ending monologue of Midsummer's to insert after the credits.
And now for the hard part.... Casting.... I've put something up in TTG (Tisch Talent Guild, connecting with students and alumni) as well as Craig's List. I need 4 guys and 2 girls. I got somewhere around 30 responses.... Exactly 4 of them are guys.
Aaaaaaand I'm going to audition them. Even the guys, yes, as I'm still hoping to get more responses, and I need to figure out who's who, and it's good to meet them ahead of time. So I've auditioned for Sal a dozen times, and yet I'm still more scared than I have ever been in my life. These guys have ACTUAL EXPERIENCE!!! They're way more experienced than me! I don't think any of them are current students either, which kind of makes it worse....
Oh, and did I mention I'm set to be recording on Sunday? Yeah, auditions are Saturday 11-3, and I'm still not done scheduling everyone. And I don't know what to do about those who can't make it, as I can't book any other time at Todman. And none of the guys have responded since I e-mailed them back either, so that doesn't make me feel any better. HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That is all. (Hey, it's long, but it's incorporating a whole month of missed updates....)