Tuesday post for 11/11

It's Sunday the 9th, I have to finish my research paper, I am sad. I don't know what to say to get to the word limit right now. I hate this feeling of being at a stalemate in my life. Nothing's going anywhere. I really hope I get into U of M. That'd just be a nice little validation. I want to go; I don't want to leave. Is anything else new? I've never been content staying where I am, my whole life, but I've always felt I'd rather be safe than sorry, as well. This is a weird post. I'm so tired. I think this is probs 100 words; I'm gonna call it good. hgfjkdl.

I'm okay, I will be okay, I've survived lots of things before

Friday post re: class 11/3, 11/5

I was absent on the third, but on the fifth (my birthday!) attended both class and the Night of the Research Paper event at Waldo... and I'm actually really, really surprised at how many in-depth ways of finding resources and works to cite there are that I never had a clue about. I've already found half of my sources, so I mean, hey. I really hate research papers and the topic I'm currently tackling is a little daunting - it's a very current/recent argument and I'm scared I won't be able to find much directly related information, but I'm looking forward to further educating myself on an argument I'm very passionate about (and getting more back-up information for the next time someone asks me 'why')! ... grammar? But, yeah. :~)

Extra Credit Post: Cymbeline

I saw Cymbeline on 10/25, and was blown away. For Shakespeare's most obscure piece, the entire ensemble did a fantastic job working under Ben's directing to make the plot, characters, and overall themes as clear as possible. I'm not a huge fan of the piece itself (Shakespeare just kind of went ham with it, honestly) but it was beautifully directed and performed. There was only one scene I didn't follow, and it was because Trevor (Cloten) had his shirt off and I was busy literally staring at him. Sorry, that's inappropriate. Oh, well.

Tuesday Post for 11/04

My birthday is on the fifth. Billy just broke up with me. Things are kind of strange. I'm on a train. I cried a lot. I am nearly nineteen and I wonder if I'm growing up too quickly a lot of the time. This is very choppy writing, and I apologize for that. I hope things work out with us again. We both agreed it was a possibility. The timing just sucks. As cliche as that right-person-wrong-time thing is, that's the truth in this situation. We're both pursuing BFAs at schools three hours away from each other. Living weekend-to-weekend just isn't working. I really hope he isn't going to find someone new. A huge part of me believes that, in part because things ended well, this will be okay, and we will be together again; just now isn't the right time. I hope that and pray that and in part believe that to be true. But who knows? All I know is that I am in God's hands, and I know that whatever He has planned for me will be great and fantastic; I can only hope and pray that Billy is part of that plan.

Friday post re: Class 10/27, 10/30

We talked a little bit about conspiracy theories in class this week, and I really am intrigued by conspiracy theories. It's always fascinated me, the weird alternate realities people can assign themselves to and dedicate their lives to proving. Personally, I believe that Marilyn Monroe was murdered, for example. I mean, I'm no die-hard and I'm not going to go crazy trying to prove that my beliefs are right or anything. But it's logical to me. The slightly more illogical ones just blow my mind though. But anyway, that's that. Oh, also logical fallacies and debate have always interested me so I'm excited to tackle those.

Tuesday Post - 10/21

So, I have had a tremendously crazily busy week/weekend, to the point that my whole life is a lil in shambles right now. (I generally don't like to complain, so I'm just getting it all out on this blog. I promise I'm not as negative as I feel this blog sometimes paints me).
With midterms, voting, auditions, work, homework, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, I am finding myself having to boil every hour down to exactly what I'll be doing when, and it really doesn't help when buses are late or wifi isn't working or et cetera, et cetera, et cetera
I know these things are my responsibility, but they are just piling up right now
This semester feels an awful lot like not really knowing how to juggle but being in a circus where they keep throwing you balls?
Also I really like journaling for stress management and to record my life and I unfortunately haven't been doing that very much lately, cos I'm too busy trying to get everything else done that I just need to sleep
BUT ANYWAY, this weekend was great (though every free second was inhabited with catch-up work). I saw my boyfriend's show, he met my mom (!!!) which went really surprisingly well (!!!), we got to spend some time together for the first time in three weeks (which was great albeit a lil stressful cos he doesn't have wifi so there were a million things I could've been doing but couldn't - but it was okay, cos I think I needed to slow down for a little while). Then I went home, sang at my friend's wedding, and promptly came back to Kzoo. MY HEAD IS SPINNIN'
But I've got all next semester's classes scheduled out and finals and all so I'm feeling a li'l less stress-y
Okay! Now time to FINALLY finish this paper.

baiiiiii

Friday post - 10/13, /16

Class on the 16th was cancelled, so these are technically reflections over class only on 10/13

So we're talking about analysis and all that jazz as you know, but I have just a few thoughts

To me, a 'theme' has always been more of an overall image the piece is dealing with vs. some kind of moral (i.e., one could interpret some themes of the musical HAIR to include love, war, religion, acceptance, and peace, while the moral would be something the piece is saying, like for example 'war-is-bad-peace-is-good-accept-and-love-and-don't-hurt-anyone' or something like that) but that's probably just my education differing from another's, so that doesn't bother me at all, though I do get a little confused in class sometimes

Additionally, I find it strange that we aren't to summarize at all - whenever I have done analysis papers in my prior experience, a bit of background information was considered essential. Instructions were often "write this piece as though it's for someone who has never read (or seen/heard, in the case of a film/song) the piece." So while I do understand that the purpose of these activities is to actually describe how our 'theme' fits into the world of the piece, I don't quite yet understand the background info:analysis ratio that is desirable when writing

PEACE