I'm home again after wrestling with the traffic all around me on I-95. I really need to learn some patience and stop being annoyed by the traffic. Jill S-G hitched a ride with me, which made the ride a lot better: we had such random conversations that wouldn't make sense to anyone else.
Its going to be a quiet Easter. Saturday I have to get my car fixed at 9am. Then I'm off to see about getting something for the Collegian formal and possibly the Masque formal. I'm still not sure about that one. I need a new pair of sneakers too, so that'll probably happen tomorrow as well. My grandmother is coming down from Jersey tomorrow, and my uncles from Gaithersburg and York are coming down as well. That plus my sister and her boyfriend and the parents is it.
I finally updated the front page of demizio.com with some new pictures and links and stuff. The old theatrical resume is updated too.
Other than that, not much else happening. I'm finally getting excited for the summer again. The paper/presentation for Shakespeare that I thought was a week late was actually due the PAST Wednesday. This is good because: I'm not going to fail. I had the paper completely done (slightly BS'ed it, but I had six or seven decent sources for a five page paper) but not the presentation. This was a bad thing because the presentation was supposed to be the bigger portion of the project and the research just a write-up of what I presented/application to a play.
So I bit the big suck bullet for the presentation. I worked up something quickly from my paper in about an hour between Gothic Lit and night class. I would really just like to get out of the class alive at this point: my grades up to now have been in the B range. I'd love a B- for the semester, but would settle for a C or a C-.
The larger picture from this is that the major impetus for my emotional breakdown last week didn't exist. I lost a bunch of sleep and worried a lot of people without a reason for it. Still trying to figure out a lesson from it to make it somewhat worthwhile...
Cronin gave my first story from the semester an A. I was beaming. My second story, the one I posted earlier, was workshopped on Thursday. People love the voice of the narrator, but want a plot...my thoughts exactly. As it stands, its just a guy complaining about his job.
Eh; a work in progress. I got lost in character development...
My goal for break is to find a plot for this guy and make him interesting. Thats the last major hurdle that I can see for this semester.
Its almost over :)
Posted by Matthew at April 19, 2003 01:55 AM