#2701
Posted: 7/26/05 at 8:22pm
Ooooh, Elphie!!! I'm so thrilled you've given me an excuse to post long, rambling accounts of my various trials and tribulations!!! Hooray!!
I've taken a lot of 3 hour classes. If they're w/ a good professor, they really aren't bad at all. They only meet once a week, so that's kind of nice! I actually took a "learning community" (2 related classes that count for 6 credits worth of classes) called Urban Social Photography that met for 5 hours once a week! It sounds really daunting, but (other than the fact that it was the first time it was offered and the profs were still kind of feeling their way through the course) it actually went by pretty quickly. We'd usually watch a film about a photographer, have an hour or two of lectures, and then fill in the rest either in the dark room or going to a museum to see an exhibit...The two I have this semester shouldn't be too bad. One of them is Feature Writing (I had the prof for it last year, and he's kind of amusing, and I'm willing to bet he'll rarely keep us the whole time) and the other is The Art of Film, so we'll probably just watch a movie every week and then talk about it. I had a Hitchcock film seminar last fall that was like that. We'd have an hour to bicker about whatever film we watched just about every week...I think there were only one or two that we didn't watch a film or we were assigned to watch a film outside class and just watched highlights/talked about theory, for 2+ hours. I think I just got used to having longer classes, because we had block scheduling all through high school, so it's been ages since I've had a class shorter than an hour and a half. It's gotten to the point where when I get a class that meets 3 times a week for an hour, I get frustrated with how short it is (unless it's math...it should be against the law to have math for more than an hour at a time!)
I didn't see anything about an opening act for Arcade Fire, but I hope there is one. I bet I'd be able to get out of class early enough to swing catching most of it. I hope, I hope, I hope!
Creepy has been moved, thank god! About a month ago an intermittent employee started up again (she's a teacher and comes in during the summer and over vacations, etc) so we all got shifted around. She went to my computer, I moved to Napoleon Dynamite's (I forget whether I'd mentioned the fact that he is alarmingly Napoleon-like) and he moved into the office w/ the crankiest, most difficult/obnoxious/irritating person in the office, which I found HIGHLY amusing! They've had some choice moments, actually! Actually, I'd forgotten entirely that Napoleon was even there. He's been pretty quiet lately, other than the occasional emergence, which always results in some oddity or other. Like once, someone else popped into their office to get something off Cranky's desk (he was on vacation for the week) and mentioned something about a fly on the desk, so Napoleon comes lumbering out chasing it down swatting at it was a giant three-ring binder. It was a sight!...OOOOHHH! Then, this random person upstairs is leaving, and the teacher and I were asked if we wanted to go to her going-away luncheon. Since neither of us know her, we passed, but Napoleon was also asked (just to be polite, since it happened to be one of the rare times he'd emerged doing something quasi-useful) and he said YES!!! WTF?!?!?! He doesn't know any of them! He's going to go out to lunch w/ a dozen 30-somethings that he's never met. How odd! And he doesn't drive, so he's going to have to bum a ride off one of them too. How I'd love to be a fly on the wall that afternoon!!!
OOOOOHHHHH!!!! And MLP's bro is retiring, and we're "invited" to his soiree(how do you spell that anyway??) I guess she showed up at his promotion, so maybe she’ll be there?? It should be kind of fun anyway.
Hmmm…what else? OOOOHHHH! Your stalker! Unfortunately, I have zero advice for you there, never having had a stalker myself. Is he a kiwi?...I’m sorry to hear he’s tainting your Music Industry class. I’d be pissed. It’s one thing to have an annoying creep following you, but when it comes to tainting something enjoyable…that’s just not cool.
This should keep you amused for a while!
I’ll talk to ya later!!!
I've taken a lot of 3 hour classes. If they're w/ a good professor, they really aren't bad at all. They only meet once a week, so that's kind of nice! I actually took a "learning community" (2 related classes that count for 6 credits worth of classes) called Urban Social Photography that met for 5 hours once a week! It sounds really daunting, but (other than the fact that it was the first time it was offered and the profs were still kind of feeling their way through the course) it actually went by pretty quickly. We'd usually watch a film about a photographer, have an hour or two of lectures, and then fill in the rest either in the dark room or going to a museum to see an exhibit...The two I have this semester shouldn't be too bad. One of them is Feature Writing (I had the prof for it last year, and he's kind of amusing, and I'm willing to bet he'll rarely keep us the whole time) and the other is The Art of Film, so we'll probably just watch a movie every week and then talk about it. I had a Hitchcock film seminar last fall that was like that. We'd have an hour to bicker about whatever film we watched just about every week...I think there were only one or two that we didn't watch a film or we were assigned to watch a film outside class and just watched highlights/talked about theory, for 2+ hours. I think I just got used to having longer classes, because we had block scheduling all through high school, so it's been ages since I've had a class shorter than an hour and a half. It's gotten to the point where when I get a class that meets 3 times a week for an hour, I get frustrated with how short it is (unless it's math...it should be against the law to have math for more than an hour at a time!)
I didn't see anything about an opening act for Arcade Fire, but I hope there is one. I bet I'd be able to get out of class early enough to swing catching most of it. I hope, I hope, I hope!
Creepy has been moved, thank god! About a month ago an intermittent employee started up again (she's a teacher and comes in during the summer and over vacations, etc) so we all got shifted around. She went to my computer, I moved to Napoleon Dynamite's (I forget whether I'd mentioned the fact that he is alarmingly Napoleon-like) and he moved into the office w/ the crankiest, most difficult/obnoxious/irritating person in the office, which I found HIGHLY amusing! They've had some choice moments, actually! Actually, I'd forgotten entirely that Napoleon was even there. He's been pretty quiet lately, other than the occasional emergence, which always results in some oddity or other. Like once, someone else popped into their office to get something off Cranky's desk (he was on vacation for the week) and mentioned something about a fly on the desk, so Napoleon comes lumbering out chasing it down swatting at it was a giant three-ring binder. It was a sight!...OOOOHHH! Then, this random person upstairs is leaving, and the teacher and I were asked if we wanted to go to her going-away luncheon. Since neither of us know her, we passed, but Napoleon was also asked (just to be polite, since it happened to be one of the rare times he'd emerged doing something quasi-useful) and he said YES!!! WTF?!?!?! He doesn't know any of them! He's going to go out to lunch w/ a dozen 30-somethings that he's never met. How odd! And he doesn't drive, so he's going to have to bum a ride off one of them too. How I'd love to be a fly on the wall that afternoon!!!
OOOOOHHHHH!!!! And MLP's bro is retiring, and we're "invited" to his soiree(how do you spell that anyway??) I guess she showed up at his promotion, so maybe she’ll be there?? It should be kind of fun anyway.
Hmmm…what else? OOOOHHHH! Your stalker! Unfortunately, I have zero advice for you there, never having had a stalker myself. Is he a kiwi?...I’m sorry to hear he’s tainting your Music Industry class. I’d be pissed. It’s one thing to have an annoying creep following you, but when it comes to tainting something enjoyable…that’s just not cool.
This should keep you amused for a while!
I’ll talk to ya later!!!
But when did New Hampshire become--Such a backward wasteland of seatbelt hating crazies?...I mean, only 40 people actually live there. The others are just visitors who come for the tax-free liquor and three inches of novelty coastline. John Hodgeman on The Daily Show (1-30-07)
Updated On: 7/29/05 at 08:22 PM
Movie wraps next Friday, but I'm in studio tomorrow and on a different set next week too (and doing the pharmacy job this weekend) so my feet hurt and I'm mentally and physically burned out. Will get caught up on the novel-sized posts in a bit! I just needed to boot up the comp and see what I've missed!
I find it really strange here that I can actually purchase booze legally, it was a bit of a thrill at first (but now I'm used to it). 
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