Well, the final of Death really was as bad as I thought it was. It was virtually impossible to study for everything given the sheer magnitude of what was available for the teacher to pull from on this test, especially given his delight at taking obscure portions of the text and using them against us. I focused on the higher concepts and the vocabulary (there were 150 words to memorize) in hopes that it would help me ferret out the final answer. I also gave the chapters a final read through before hand, and while it helped somewhat, I'm sure I certainly didn't ace this thing. But, if it was this hard for me then the odds are it was the same thing for most people as well.
We'll see.
It was easy to relax when we were finally done with it though. We saw on Netflix "From Beyond" (not a family movie) "Perfume: Story of a Murder" (not a family movie either.) We also watched the most recent Dr. Who, which is quite frankly brilliant. Shame they're taking a two year break but I understand why. Better to preserve the long term viability of the show.
We saw Wall-E as well. FANTASTIC movie. Arguably the best thing that Pixar has ever produced, though it is a tough toss up between that and Ratatoui.
Finished reading "The Player of Games" this week as well. Good book. Right now I'm rereading the Wild Card books which are a series of books about a world infected by an alien virus that gives people super powers. Fun stuff.
Monday, June 30, 2008
Monday, June 23, 2008
I have been SoundKnowlified
For 16 hours over two days I learned more than I ever wanted to know about Sound in a film class taught by a rather cool guy who has done work for Kevin Smith as his head sound dude (on pretty much all of his movies.) Apparently, he's based out of Atlanta. But, after the rather disasterous experiences with the last two movies, I needed to prevent another Snap, Crackle and Pop special.
The drive on Thursday from the reunion went well but the last hour was hard. I came to realize that 12 diet cokes in 6 hours might not agree with me, since I normally don't consume hoards of caffine. The fact that I had gotten up at 5:30 in the morning didn't help.
When I got home, I found that the infamous Team Project that I thought was basically done wanted another two teleconferences. I basically went into open rebellion explaining that since they had scheduled these when I wasn't present when they scheduled these, I would be unable to attend. I was so upset that I didn't sleep and had to stay home sick, but I did complete my final part of the project and it came out rather well. I got two hours Friday morning so I almost didn't go to the Sound class, but golddame55 convinced me that it was a good idea.
Glad I went.
(For purposes of my own records)
The reunion went very well. Christy's planning was essentially perfect and the location was right next to a pastoral river. We played a few games, and went to sea world for most of Tuesday followed by an excellent meal at the Iron Cactus that night. Wednesday we went tubing down the river and had games that afternoon. There was a water fight in which I was a two pistoled terror. I have regained my faith in tiny little pistols, and am glad (for the most part) that I resisted the urge to bring a rain slicker, plastic riot shield, goggles and industrial power sprayer for said fight. All in all it lasted about 30 minutes and was lighthearted fun whereas my terminator like abomination would have...been thematically inappropriate. I would have enjoyed it, but I doubted anyone else would...not to mention that for a cost of roughly $150, it would not have really been worth it. :)
The drive on Thursday from the reunion went well but the last hour was hard. I came to realize that 12 diet cokes in 6 hours might not agree with me, since I normally don't consume hoards of caffine. The fact that I had gotten up at 5:30 in the morning didn't help.
When I got home, I found that the infamous Team Project that I thought was basically done wanted another two teleconferences. I basically went into open rebellion explaining that since they had scheduled these when I wasn't present when they scheduled these, I would be unable to attend. I was so upset that I didn't sleep and had to stay home sick, but I did complete my final part of the project and it came out rather well. I got two hours Friday morning so I almost didn't go to the Sound class, but golddame55 convinced me that it was a good idea.
Glad I went.
(For purposes of my own records)
The reunion went very well. Christy's planning was essentially perfect and the location was right next to a pastoral river. We played a few games, and went to sea world for most of Tuesday followed by an excellent meal at the Iron Cactus that night. Wednesday we went tubing down the river and had games that afternoon. There was a water fight in which I was a two pistoled terror. I have regained my faith in tiny little pistols, and am glad (for the most part) that I resisted the urge to bring a rain slicker, plastic riot shield, goggles and industrial power sprayer for said fight. All in all it lasted about 30 minutes and was lighthearted fun whereas my terminator like abomination would have...been thematically inappropriate. I would have enjoyed it, but I doubted anyone else would...not to mention that for a cost of roughly $150, it would not have really been worth it. :)
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Happenings
We saw Kung Fu Panda on Friday. I highly recommend it. It is most excellent.
While I took a brief break for a while, I'm now working on three short stories. One of which I work on through an online writing group which has thus far proved quite helpful. I also have plans to work on a novel with a friend of mine who is going to have a gap in his employment. I'll post more details here as they become more concrete. I still have plans to write the fantasy novel in November and December. The Saturday after the reunion I'll be taking a two day class on sound so hopefully the next movie will turn out better sound wise than the last one did.
The mid term did not go well but thus far I've managed to keep my head above water. Because 40% of the grade is graded by other students, I think they're assuming that it will be high to compensate. Hopefully I will get a high grade there. We'll see.
We visited Mom, Skip and Grandma on Sunday. We watched "The Mist"....pretty good but pretty scary. Not a 'for kids' movie..and elements of the ending were mildly annoying but then, it would have been better than a 'they drive off into the Mist' ambiguous ending of the novella...and I LIKE Stephen King, though to be honest, I mainly like his non horror stuff.
While I took a brief break for a while, I'm now working on three short stories. One of which I work on through an online writing group which has thus far proved quite helpful. I also have plans to work on a novel with a friend of mine who is going to have a gap in his employment. I'll post more details here as they become more concrete. I still have plans to write the fantasy novel in November and December. The Saturday after the reunion I'll be taking a two day class on sound so hopefully the next movie will turn out better sound wise than the last one did.
The mid term did not go well but thus far I've managed to keep my head above water. Because 40% of the grade is graded by other students, I think they're assuming that it will be high to compensate. Hopefully I will get a high grade there. We'll see.
We visited Mom, Skip and Grandma on Sunday. We watched "The Mist"....pretty good but pretty scary. Not a 'for kids' movie..and elements of the ending were mildly annoying but then, it would have been better than a 'they drive off into the Mist' ambiguous ending of the novella...and I LIKE Stephen King, though to be honest, I mainly like his non horror stuff.
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Life in general
Well lets see....this Sunday I went to something called "The Daily Project" which is basically a film maker's club. I'm not going to make any more until I get my sound skills down, but I'm going to help other people make their's in the meantime. Made a few cool contacts there.
Took my International Business midterm as well and it was BRUTAL. It was open book but I had 90 minutes to answer 50 questions and I used every last SECOND. To put that in perspective, I have finished about 30 minutes early on all of my other tests and used the remaining time to check or confirm my answers and that was making sure I checked my notes very thoroughly the first time. Still no idea what the score was.
Gave mom a copy of my novel. Novel 3 is coming along well, I plan to start writing it in November and December. Jennifer and I ate at "Loop Pizza" which is a great pizza place. Don't think they are national though. Last night we saw "Flags of our Fathers" which was pretty cool but sad. We did not treat the guys in that photo well, even if they were accidental heroes.
Took my International Business midterm as well and it was BRUTAL. It was open book but I had 90 minutes to answer 50 questions and I used every last SECOND. To put that in perspective, I have finished about 30 minutes early on all of my other tests and used the remaining time to check or confirm my answers and that was making sure I checked my notes very thoroughly the first time. Still no idea what the score was.
Gave mom a copy of my novel. Novel 3 is coming along well, I plan to start writing it in November and December. Jennifer and I ate at "Loop Pizza" which is a great pizza place. Don't think they are national though. Last night we saw "Flags of our Fathers" which was pretty cool but sad. We did not treat the guys in that photo well, even if they were accidental heroes.
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