Thursday, September 22, 2005
One of Those Days
You ever have one of those days? You know, the days that aren't terrible days, but they aren't great days either, and you just want to ignore all your responsibilities and sleep?
Today was one of those days for me. I hate Thursdays.
There's nothing quite like getting up at 7:15, after sleeping for around 5 hours, and not being able to make coffee because the milk went bad a few days ago and you still haven't bought another carton. So you make hot chocolate. But you can't get food yet, because your roommate is still sleeping. So then, when he finally does get up, you quickly munch down a single Pop-Tart and head off to class, trying not to collapse on your way there.
That's bad.
So you survive Sociology class, since that class is always fun. Not to mention that the current topic is sex, which makes for some very interesting discussions, especially when the teacher is extremely liberal ("There's a difference between pornography and erotica. Pornography involves taking advantage of women, which is wrong. Erotica involves the expression of love by two willing individuals. If they want to videotape that and post it on the Internet for the world to see, what's wrong with that?") and always blunt. After class, you go back to your room and take a nap for an hour.
That's good.
After your nap, you wake up, chill out for a while, and then it's off to Calculus. Not only is Calculus extremely boring, but you find that for some reason you're having trouble doing things you already know how to do. Plus, there's a quiz you forgot to study for.
That's bad.
You hope that it'll be like the last quiz, and only used as bonus points. Then you're off to dance class, where the girls tell the professor you're the best leader of the guys.
That's good.
Then you rush back to your room, where you have a 15-minute break before immediately going to Spanish and English. You doze in and out of consciousness during English while listening to the teacher talk about a rather pointless poem of Whitman's.
That's bad.
Then you go to dinner with someone in your English class who's a pretty cool guy. Then you head off to the InterVarsity large group meeting, find out when the small groups meet, and listen to a great message. By now, you're not feeling quite so tired, so you go back to your room to chill out and write a blog entry.
That's good.
So yeah. That was my day. Not great, not terrible, just kinda blegh.
In other news: the group of religious fanatics that invaded the Brickyard yesterday were, according to the school newspaper, went by the name of "Saving Jesus." I've tried finding information on the Internet about them to no avail.
I'm going to spend the weekend working and writing movie reviews. Fun fun fun. I plan on walking a lot tomorrow. For starters, I'll be getting my paycheck, so I need to go cash that one and my first one at the Credit Union, which is a good distance away. I'm also planning on walking to Cameron Village and checking out Blockbuster. That's also a pretty far walk. But hey, you gotta do what you gotta do for money and movies.
I also planning on sleeping. A lot. This week has left me exhausted.
Oh, and before I forget, I might as well update you all on my recent activities in regards to filmmaking. I have been assigned two jobs in the upcoming 2nd NP2K Studio Film Festival. The last one was a success - it's the one I wrote a script for, but the guy who was supposed to direct it bailed out.
For this festival, I was once again assigned a writing position. Basically, there are teams of three people per team: a writer, director, and an editor. My job as writer is to write a script in a month. After that, a guy I've never met is going to direct it, after which someone else is going to edit it. The director this time around is DJ Holloway. He lives in California, has plenty of experience, was an English/Film major in college, and also happens to be a minister. You can find out more about him at the website of his production team, Unseen Hands. We've settled on a basic idea for the movie, and now we're currently working on sorting out the details. I'm excited. All I'll say now is that it's a serious drama about a very serious issue. I've never written pure drama before, so I'm looking forward to starting work on the script.
I leave you now with an entry in today's Police Blotter, a section of the campus newspaper which details all of the crime that was reported the day before. Evidently, this happened yesterday:
"A student reported a non-student was inside Harrelson Hall masturbating. The non-student was trespassed from all NCSU property."
Yup. That's my college.
Today was one of those days for me. I hate Thursdays.
There's nothing quite like getting up at 7:15, after sleeping for around 5 hours, and not being able to make coffee because the milk went bad a few days ago and you still haven't bought another carton. So you make hot chocolate. But you can't get food yet, because your roommate is still sleeping. So then, when he finally does get up, you quickly munch down a single Pop-Tart and head off to class, trying not to collapse on your way there.
That's bad.
So you survive Sociology class, since that class is always fun. Not to mention that the current topic is sex, which makes for some very interesting discussions, especially when the teacher is extremely liberal ("There's a difference between pornography and erotica. Pornography involves taking advantage of women, which is wrong. Erotica involves the expression of love by two willing individuals. If they want to videotape that and post it on the Internet for the world to see, what's wrong with that?") and always blunt. After class, you go back to your room and take a nap for an hour.
That's good.
After your nap, you wake up, chill out for a while, and then it's off to Calculus. Not only is Calculus extremely boring, but you find that for some reason you're having trouble doing things you already know how to do. Plus, there's a quiz you forgot to study for.
That's bad.
You hope that it'll be like the last quiz, and only used as bonus points. Then you're off to dance class, where the girls tell the professor you're the best leader of the guys.
That's good.
Then you rush back to your room, where you have a 15-minute break before immediately going to Spanish and English. You doze in and out of consciousness during English while listening to the teacher talk about a rather pointless poem of Whitman's.
That's bad.
Then you go to dinner with someone in your English class who's a pretty cool guy. Then you head off to the InterVarsity large group meeting, find out when the small groups meet, and listen to a great message. By now, you're not feeling quite so tired, so you go back to your room to chill out and write a blog entry.
That's good.
So yeah. That was my day. Not great, not terrible, just kinda blegh.
In other news: the group of religious fanatics that invaded the Brickyard yesterday were, according to the school newspaper, went by the name of "Saving Jesus." I've tried finding information on the Internet about them to no avail.
I'm going to spend the weekend working and writing movie reviews. Fun fun fun. I plan on walking a lot tomorrow. For starters, I'll be getting my paycheck, so I need to go cash that one and my first one at the Credit Union, which is a good distance away. I'm also planning on walking to Cameron Village and checking out Blockbuster. That's also a pretty far walk. But hey, you gotta do what you gotta do for money and movies.
I also planning on sleeping. A lot. This week has left me exhausted.
Oh, and before I forget, I might as well update you all on my recent activities in regards to filmmaking. I have been assigned two jobs in the upcoming 2nd NP2K Studio Film Festival. The last one was a success - it's the one I wrote a script for, but the guy who was supposed to direct it bailed out.
For this festival, I was once again assigned a writing position. Basically, there are teams of three people per team: a writer, director, and an editor. My job as writer is to write a script in a month. After that, a guy I've never met is going to direct it, after which someone else is going to edit it. The director this time around is DJ Holloway. He lives in California, has plenty of experience, was an English/Film major in college, and also happens to be a minister. You can find out more about him at the website of his production team, Unseen Hands. We've settled on a basic idea for the movie, and now we're currently working on sorting out the details. I'm excited. All I'll say now is that it's a serious drama about a very serious issue. I've never written pure drama before, so I'm looking forward to starting work on the script.
I leave you now with an entry in today's Police Blotter, a section of the campus newspaper which details all of the crime that was reported the day before. Evidently, this happened yesterday:
"A student reported a non-student was inside Harrelson Hall masturbating. The non-student was trespassed from all NCSU property."
Yup. That's my college.
# posted by Andrew Johnson : 9/22/2005 10:00:00 PM 
