Hope Rides Alone

Like being at summer camp again!

X-Posted to my tumblr because it's a pain to upload photos to LJ and I've got lots to do this afternoon.

teenybuffalo and Kestrell are amazing and I am so happy. : DDDDD

This room that started out all blank white walls and dreariness has become lovely. There's color on the walls, leaves from home on the window, and now EVEN MORE ORANGE THINGS to have around the place! : D

I've bee busy. Working on my script, trying not to get used to having no roommate in a double room in the dorms (long story, but I have no roommate at the moment and have no idea if/when I'll get one), crying and feeling sad about the end of To Boldly Flee and the Nostalgia Critic, trying to sort out my feelings about Spoony especially in light of his commentaries on To Boldly Flee, not sleeping enough, playing the Dresden Files RPG with friends via Google+, keeping track of all the shows I'm supposed to go to including a production of Rocky Horror which two of my friends are starring in, limping because of my stupid toenail, working in the scene shop, and oh yeah, classes ... 

... I have to chose the subject for the big ongoing project for one of my classes. We can chose a play or musical to hypothetically turn into a movie, or a movie to hypothetically turn into a play or musical. 
(I fucking love my school. : D )

I'm torn between Kill Bill and Labyrinth. 

Yes. I feel like Kill Bill would be challenging, maybe too challenging, but also badass and full of gore. And difficult to get research material for. On the other hand, Labyrinth could be this cool Nutcracker-esque adventure with changing sets and I could research mythology for that. 

Thoughts?

Because awesome_emmy sent me the link to the coolest thing I've seen in a long time. It's like fanmixes ... but with TEA. Mostly of specific characters (Sherlock characters are pretty popular at the moment, as you can see here) but some for things like books too. It's utterly fantastic. Also you can design your own blend! 

WHY DON'T I LIKE TEA?!??!!??!?! *cries* This is the bestest thing ever and I DON'T LIKE TEA!

We were put into groups during the last part of my morning class today. The other girls in my group spoke so pretentiously I could barely understand what was going on. I had to force myself to contribute ideas to the discussion because I was so busy trying to decipher what they were saying. I felt like I had landed on another planet. What the fuck was that about? I consider myself a smart person, yeah my SAT scores weren't stellar but they weren't lousy, and I read a lot. Today I felt like I was in the wrong place. I wanted to yell "SPEAK PLAIN ENGLISH, IT'S NOT THAT DIFFICULT" while they kept yammering on about how awesome the book we had to read for homework was (it ... wasn't. It kinda sucked. The book was almost as hard to understand as the other girls in my group were.) I'd be afraid that I was out of my depth in the class if it weren't for the rest of the class, which is going awesomely. We've been watching clips of various movies of Hamlet and discussing the symbolism and use of music and lighting and stuff in them. It's WONDERFUL. I've brought up a few things that seemed to please the teacher. The class is understandable during THOSE discussions, so why not during the book-talk?

Also, most of the reading homework I have for the other classes, from the ridiculously-expensive textbooks? HORRIBLE. I paid money for this shit? I am PAYING money to be forced to read this shit? All this is accomplishing is making me have to twitch every few minutes to stay awake, and making me realize what it was like for those kids in elementary school who said they "hated to read." I thought I'd never be able to identify with them, and now I can.

There is good stuff, though. I had my first interview and got the job (HURRAY!) and had another interview today that went pretty well, I guess (yay!) and have been eating better food and better times (woohoo!) and it's been nice and rainy out and I've been hanging out a bit with this insane, hilarious, nice guy who dresses like Matt Smith (I'm not even kidding) and finding the time to write a little fanfic and read some Dresden Files. My Making Monsters class is fan-freaking-tastic and I am so excited for more, even though it's at 8:00 am in the morning, I am PSYCHED for that class. Most of the theater class I'm taking is great, the parts where we've been discussing scenes from Hamlet have been wonderful, the reading and discussion of that ... not so much.

I'll get through this. I may snap in a couple weeks and start shaking people to get the pretentious out of them, but hopefully it won't come to that. 

No longer feeling anxious. When to "Hooray!" which was an event hosted by the Date Doctor. There was lots of hugging and laughing and silly games with hula hoops, and the end result was that I no longer felt anxious or second-guessing my placement here. 

Hanging out in my room with my roommate and two of her friends. BFA majors seem to be becomming fast friends. At least I don't have to worry about people never stopping by. I'll just have to make sure they like me, and make sure my friends come over, and stuff. 

People seem to be remembering me and saying hi and stuff. That bodes well.

Remembered the name of the girl who I met last night who shares so many of my interests. YAY!