Pff, I could do that

This was a busy week. But today was awesome.

Today I finished two papers after rolling out of bed. Well, I say two papers. It was one paper and One-page of a script.

The paper was neat. It was from a textbook talking about how electronic media was evil, and my essay was about how it wasn’t. I got to put YouTube in the Works Cited! Y’know all those hours I spent watching YouTube in the last three weeks? Research! For the past couple weeks I had been worried about not having started it yet, but then I looked at the topics and I was all “pff, I could do that.” Then, I was worried I couldn’t, but then I totally did.

And the script! Oh man, the script! We were supposed to write a one page scene which was mostly focused on dialogue. I had already written a scene, but it was a little long, and had a few too many stage directions. So I wrote a new one. After I finished my paper I remember saying to myself “Okay, man, you’ve got 45 minutes to write a brand new scene before you need to take a shower and catch the bus,” and I totally did! And when we were going over all of them in class, I totally got a B or something. I think. The Prof was a little vague. But, yeah!

Do something out of character every now and then.

It keeps people guessing.

The Last Distant Speck

Here is a poem I wrote for my Creative Writing (Poetry) class.

It’s supposed to be of someone doing something, but there being a subtext or deeper meaning to the thing they’re doing.

I think it turned out pretty well.

Read “The Last Distant Speck“

Confessional

Watching Confession videos on YouTube.

It’s sort of nice to have heart ache on tap. It’s therapeutic, in a way.

So, uhh, book arrived.

I’m already three fourths through the book. I don’t think I’ve ever gotten this far in a book in a single sitting before. Well, I say single sitting. I had to, you know, get up and pee and stuff.

Good stuff so far. Really good.

Sort of bummed that my copy of TFiOS isn’t here yet. I saw copies in the bookstore at the mall.

Oh! I wrote something recently! It’s a… it’s a poem. I wrote a poem for my poetry class. I really liked how it turned out, though. We had the very interesting restriction on it that it had to be exactly 25 words long. I’ll be putting that up when I don’t have something to talk about.

I watched the new Sherlock episode. I didn’t like it as much as the one before. It was good, but not italics good. After the episode, Moffat ominously tweeted “The woman is saved and lost, the hound is slain – now there is only the fall. You have one week to brace yourselves…” Looking forward to that very much.

Other than that, I haven’t really done much. Just a boring average week. We should totally do something.

On Tuesday though, I did something interesting (depending on your definition of ‘interesting’ and depending on your definition of ‘did’). Tuesday was the worldwide release date of the new John Green novel, The Fault in Our Stars. At the same time, they made their first stop of their book tour in Wellesley, Massachusetts. And since my copy had not arrived yet I instead spent three hours watching the Live Stream. It was awesome! So many cool people. The NerdFighters are an fascinating community. If I ever become a legit writer I want fans as cool as them.

Four Hour Meetings

Just came from a rare late night Shalom meeting. It ran a little long, I admit, but I loved that we didn’t rush through it. Got a lot of stuff down.

Good work team!
You probably won’t see this, but good work team!

Act 1 – Screenplay

When I walked into the room for my Creative Writing Screenplay class, I saw this on the projector.

I think this’ll be an interesting class.

Year-end Tour

Happy New Year, guys!

It’s a new year and a new breeze floats upon the clouds.

To celebrate New Years Eve I went and caught the 7:30 showing of The Muppets down at Silver City. I couldn’t decide between ‘New Years Eve’ and ‘The Muppets’, but since I was already spending New Years Eve alone I didn’t want to watch New Years Eve alone.

The movie was great.

As I walked out of the theatre to the bus stop, I had the option of having the C93 or the 401 take me home. The C93 would only take nine-ish minutes but wouldn’t leave for another thirty, while it would take the 401 about 39 minutes to get to more or less the same place. I decided to take the 401.

Part of the choice was the illusion of progress, yes. Sitting in a moving vehicle for half an hour feels more productive than sitting in one that isn’t. But mostly it was because the 401 was the scenic route. I hadn’t realized this before, really, but the 401 goes pretty close to all the places that I go on a regular basis.

As it drove along No. 5 I remembered the church and all the stuff that’s happened there and the friends I’ve made.

As it ran up the length of the mall I remembered all the hours I spent in the food court typing away at my stories.

And, as I stepped off the bus on the far fringes of Steveston Village, I took a long wistful glance towards the pier and remembered looking out at the waterfront with my friends.

It was nice. Sort of like a year-end tour. I didn’t even plug in my headphones.
(Yeah, I only go to three places, shut up.)

When I got home I had enough time to watch Tangled and catch the exciting part of the delayed West-Coast airing of the East-Coast New Year’s Rockin’ Eve countdown.

Plus, just now, I just watched that new episode of Sherlock. So I’m pretty happy.