Beginning of (this) End

American Idol classic moments:
Chris (auditioner): "I've never kissed a girl."
Randy: "What? On purpose?"
LOVE IT!

So, classes have begun, starting my second semester of this school year. So yay! (Three semesters left, counting this one...)

They're actually rather entertaining, so far.
I am taking two theater courses. The first is the one we all dread -- it is the hardest theater course ever. And by hardest I mean, you actually have to do work. Lame.

The second is Acting II. I'm thrilled for this one. I haven't taking an acting class for a while, so I'm really gonna enjoy this.

I am taking a Comm course, which will be fun. It's all about graphic design and stuff -- not my thing, but should be fun anyways. We're supposed to blog about each class and what we did in them, so we had to set up Wordpress accounts. I kinda like Wordpress, actually.

I'm also taking a short stories class. This one probably won't be difficult, especially given this morning's class discussion about "To Build a Fire" by Jack London as we discussed dynamic and static characters...
(If you haven't read it, beware, I'm totally spoiling the end here!! You should stop reading here!!)

Me: "Well, he's clearly a dynamic character, he goes through some very major changes."
Prof: "Can you give some examples?"
Me: "To start with, he starts out alive and ends up, y'know, not alive."
Prof: "That's a very good insight."
I'm pretty sure she wasn't kidding, either.

I shot the sheriff professor

Seriously, I'm about to.

So, in my comm. class today, we all got up to do PowerPoint presentations and then at the end he basically told us all we flat out sucked. We modeled our frikkin' PowerPoints after the guidelines HE gave us and the ones HE shows us in class!!!!!!!!!! He hasn't TAUGHT us anything, so we assumed we should follow by example.

Oh, and how about the part where we have to go BUY a camera. And, yes, then we have to pay for the BATTERIES!! (And it's not digital so it's worthless other than class, basically, since I don't have a scanner.) This is of course after the $50 we paid for a stupid frikkin' thumb drive AND however many hundred we spent on the books (yes, plural) for his class AND what his class costs in tuition when you do the math.........all for a class I haven't learned shit in!

He's just lucky I didn't have any sharp objects with me, cause I sit in the first row and I would've been at him before anybody could've stopped me. Not that anyone in that class would have since we were ALL pretty livid.
Like, it's one thing to provide constructive criticisms. It's different to get up and say "Really, everything I've seen was inept. Those were awful." which is what he did.

In brighter news, Katie and I have decided which apartment complex we want to live in. YAY!!

Weekly Random Picture

Yeah, this is your Wednesday's Random Picture.

I promise it's more random than Pete Ross' collage of graham products (although this is nowhere near as amazing.)Yeah. I think that's all that needs to be said about that.

In real world news, today was a day of incident and consequence.
I did not have to do my presentation I thought I had to do for Comm. today so I showed up for class in a suit. I looked hot, true, but there really was no reason for it.
Then I went to catch the train, missed it, waited around, and caught the next one with a large group of fellow college students headed home. We pretty much took over a train car and had a social hour. And I met another Rhode Islander from my school!!!

Anyways, I'm home now.

Oh, and happy National Coming Out Day everyone!

And did I mention that I got more Savage Garden songs today? This is becoming an addiction to rival my Oreo thing...

"Might need you to say it's alright..."

So I have been having a little bit of stress. A teensy weensy bit anyways. Tomorrow morning I have a presentation I'm totally under prepared for, call backs for my show were tonight (I wound up with a phenomenal cast, but not the one I wanted thanks to our dear old professor Mike...)

I came up to my room tonight beyond dead. I was practically a brain-eating zombie. And then I check my e-mail and I found the most amazing things ever.

Now, Pete Ross was having a not-good day the other day so I dropped him an ecard, like I do sometimes. I mean it takes two seconds, makes somebody smile, so whatever. But he sends me two e-mails with a grand total of FOUR collages to make my night. How amazing? I know it's not Thursday but I'm gonna have to give him a big ol' Pretty Person of the Week, again, because he's just that incredible.He said he'd been embarrassed in the grocery store doing that too. How amazing is it when someone goes out of their way to publicly humiliate themselves just because you took two minutes sending them an ecard?

(Okay, granted, it took more than two minutes but only because I'm technologically-challenged.)