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Apr. 17th, 2012 02:34 amI just finished the first, very rough draft of my MFA thesis. 44/40 pages, literally 110%.
oh my god what is air.
oh my god what is air.
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Mar. 18th, 2011 01:43 pmI have so much I want to talk about. But since brevity is the soul of wit and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.
My sister is still in Japan of this moment. She's okay, there wasn't much damage in Nagoya from the earthquake, but she's going (I keep typing 'coming' but I'm not there) home for a bit and she'll get in on Monday. I don't know if my mom will ever let her go anywhere ever again, but maybe now at least she won't drive me crazy for a bit. I love my mother and understand being worried, but seriously. (I also understand that she is ~mother and her worry probably outshines any that I had -- and I was a bit worried but my sister is a smart girl and the Japanese know how to handle it.) I told Gretchen to grab something good when the looting started, but apparently they don't do that. Which is cool.
Sunday I went and saw Angels in America at Signature again. They changed the cast, and Michael Urie was playing Prior so obviously I had to go. As much as I hesitate to say it... Michael Urie is totally my Prior. Justin Kirk is wonderful in the film, and Christian Borle was amazing, but Michael? He was inspired. He was just the perfect combination of righteous, queeny rage, fear, awareness of the absurdity of it all, and at times, utter contempt for the world around him. And how he looks in a dress is exactly as unfair as you would think it is.
Adam Driver was a newcomer as Louis. I LOVED him. He LOOKED like a neurotic Jewboy, and had amazing comic timing. At first I thought he was a little stiff but I warmed up to him. I actually ended up liking Louis a little lot more than I usually do -- which isn't necessarily a bad thing. Considering some of the things he does, it increases my sympathy and emotional reaction when he does or says reprehensible things. Truthfully, Bill Heck puts too much ANGRY~ in his Joe for my taste. I get that he's supposed to be confused and maybe a bit self-loathing, but I don't think I should fear for Harper's safety when they're arguing. I didn't like Keira Keeley (I think that's her name) as Harper as much as I liked Zoe Kazan. Zoe was a bit younger, more ethereal -- I could believe she went flying and saw ex-drag queens in her hallucinations, but Keira went a bit more zombiesque with her interpretation at times. And there was a lot of yelling. :\ Bill Porter was still Belize and he was STILL fabulous. Jeffrey Wright is Jeffrey Wright but Bill Porter was DIVAING OUT. The angel was good. I don't know if I like her as much as Robin Weigert, but it was a different interpretation. A lot more human at all times, not just sometimes.
I didn't want to stalk too much -- stagedooring Off-Broadway is a different culture than Broadway shows, I'm finding -- but I wanted to fangirl Michael Urie a little and was under orders from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
occultebelta to do so. So he signed my copy of The Temperamentals and told him I'd enjoyed that play as well, I'm teaching it in my 101 class this semester (last semester wasn't so impressed with Angels), and it was in part due to that play that I want to pursue my MFA project in queer dramaturgy. I voiced a concern about identifying straight -- in my experience, cautious self-deprecation and disclaiming works out better in the end when it's genuine -- and he blew it off. He said, "You may have more to say than a queer artist." So therefore I intend to make no more apologies about it. Onward and upward. Michael Urie said so.
Last week I applied and interviewed for a customer service position at Old Navy -- so basically what I'd been doing at Lane Bryant, but I'll be able to do it in jeans. Except when they offered me the position and tried to set up a time for me to come in for training and such, they proceeded to ignore the availability I gave them when I applied and tried to get me to come in Monday during classtimes, Tuesdays when I'm teaching, and damn. I don't even. Why? So I gave him my availability AGAIN and he said he'd call back. That was Wednesday. So if this is going to be a chronic problem I'm not sure I want to work for them. Because my school and teaching job are going to come first. Sorry. The end.
I had two major writing assignments due last Monday. Of course I left them until the last minute. One was a ten minute play, which I actually ended up being proud of despite not considering myself a playwright (it's hard to give all the information the audience needs just in dialogue without being didactic or fake). I got a B+ on a paper on Elizabethan foreign policy. I probably would have gotten higher if I'd been able to bother with MLA formatting and edit properly, but no. She did compliment my handling of the history though, so I will take it.
I've sort of started using my tumblr that I made to see what the fuss was about. And when I say 'using' I mean I'm reblogging shit like it's going out of style. It's here.
I am giving serious thought as to when I want to move, and 'soon' is what comes to mind. Twice this week I have been woken at 9:30 by a roommate (the same roommate) wailing the song "Fuck You" at the top of her voice. First of all, that's a god awful song 24/7, and second, 9:30 is not the proper hour to be shouting songs.
I just have this fear of not having enough money to stay in an apartment elsewhere and getting evicted and having to live in my car. Which is stupid. But I get anxious, I get depressed about being anxious, I get anxious because I don't get anything done when I'm depressed and it piles up, etc.
Also, Galileo is going to suck. And that is an objective assessment.
My sister is still in Japan of this moment. She's okay, there wasn't much damage in Nagoya from the earthquake, but she's going (I keep typing 'coming' but I'm not there) home for a bit and she'll get in on Monday. I don't know if my mom will ever let her go anywhere ever again, but maybe now at least she won't drive me crazy for a bit. I love my mother and understand being worried, but seriously. (I also understand that she is ~mother and her worry probably outshines any that I had -- and I was a bit worried but my sister is a smart girl and the Japanese know how to handle it.) I told Gretchen to grab something good when the looting started, but apparently they don't do that. Which is cool.
Sunday I went and saw Angels in America at Signature again. They changed the cast, and Michael Urie was playing Prior so obviously I had to go. As much as I hesitate to say it... Michael Urie is totally my Prior. Justin Kirk is wonderful in the film, and Christian Borle was amazing, but Michael? He was inspired. He was just the perfect combination of righteous, queeny rage, fear, awareness of the absurdity of it all, and at times, utter contempt for the world around him. And how he looks in a dress is exactly as unfair as you would think it is.
Adam Driver was a newcomer as Louis. I LOVED him. He LOOKED like a neurotic Jewboy, and had amazing comic timing. At first I thought he was a little stiff but I warmed up to him. I actually ended up liking Louis a little lot more than I usually do -- which isn't necessarily a bad thing. Considering some of the things he does, it increases my sympathy and emotional reaction when he does or says reprehensible things. Truthfully, Bill Heck puts too much ANGRY~ in his Joe for my taste. I get that he's supposed to be confused and maybe a bit self-loathing, but I don't think I should fear for Harper's safety when they're arguing. I didn't like Keira Keeley (I think that's her name) as Harper as much as I liked Zoe Kazan. Zoe was a bit younger, more ethereal -- I could believe she went flying and saw ex-drag queens in her hallucinations, but Keira went a bit more zombiesque with her interpretation at times. And there was a lot of yelling. :\ Bill Porter was still Belize and he was STILL fabulous. Jeffrey Wright is Jeffrey Wright but Bill Porter was DIVAING OUT. The angel was good. I don't know if I like her as much as Robin Weigert, but it was a different interpretation. A lot more human at all times, not just sometimes.
I didn't want to stalk too much -- stagedooring Off-Broadway is a different culture than Broadway shows, I'm finding -- but I wanted to fangirl Michael Urie a little and was under orders from
occultebelta to do so. So he signed my copy of The Temperamentals and told him I'd enjoyed that play as well, I'm teaching it in my 101 class this semester (last semester wasn't so impressed with Angels), and it was in part due to that play that I want to pursue my MFA project in queer dramaturgy. I voiced a concern about identifying straight -- in my experience, cautious self-deprecation and disclaiming works out better in the end when it's genuine -- and he blew it off. He said, "You may have more to say than a queer artist." So therefore I intend to make no more apologies about it. Onward and upward. Michael Urie said so.Last week I applied and interviewed for a customer service position at Old Navy -- so basically what I'd been doing at Lane Bryant, but I'll be able to do it in jeans. Except when they offered me the position and tried to set up a time for me to come in for training and such, they proceeded to ignore the availability I gave them when I applied and tried to get me to come in Monday during classtimes, Tuesdays when I'm teaching, and damn. I don't even. Why? So I gave him my availability AGAIN and he said he'd call back. That was Wednesday. So if this is going to be a chronic problem I'm not sure I want to work for them. Because my school and teaching job are going to come first. Sorry. The end.
I had two major writing assignments due last Monday. Of course I left them until the last minute. One was a ten minute play, which I actually ended up being proud of despite not considering myself a playwright (it's hard to give all the information the audience needs just in dialogue without being didactic or fake). I got a B+ on a paper on Elizabethan foreign policy. I probably would have gotten higher if I'd been able to bother with MLA formatting and edit properly, but no. She did compliment my handling of the history though, so I will take it.
I've sort of started using my tumblr that I made to see what the fuss was about. And when I say 'using' I mean I'm reblogging shit like it's going out of style. It's here.
I am giving serious thought as to when I want to move, and 'soon' is what comes to mind. Twice this week I have been woken at 9:30 by a roommate (the same roommate) wailing the song "Fuck You" at the top of her voice. First of all, that's a god awful song 24/7, and second, 9:30 is not the proper hour to be shouting songs.
I just have this fear of not having enough money to stay in an apartment elsewhere and getting evicted and having to live in my car. Which is stupid. But I get anxious, I get depressed about being anxious, I get anxious because I don't get anything done when I'm depressed and it piles up, etc.
Also, Galileo is going to suck. And that is an objective assessment.
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Dec. 7th, 2010 01:50 pmSo for my Teaching Practicum, my final project was writing a teaching philosophy. I don't even know half of what I said, I kind of went into a trace like state and just said a bunch of stuff, but my teacher liked it. So I don't know, there are a lot of teachers on my flist, so maybe someone else will get something out of it.
( Liz's Five Tenants of Teaching. )
( Liz's Five Tenants of Teaching. )
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Dec. 16th, 2009 08:04 amSo I stayed up all night to marathon the writing of my Fangirl Portrait of Katie Mitchell (I'm going to stop mentioning her all the damn time now, I promise. ... Unless I find a really adorable picture of Ben Whishaw), and I finished it at seven. It is almost ten full pages and eleven and a half with works cited, so all I need to do is go back and edit and we'll be right as rain.
Anyway. I was kind of lulling after I finished my paper, because ZZZZZ but then I checked my flist for something to do, and lo, there was wank. Christmas has come early.
Anyway. I was kind of lulling after I finished my paper, because ZZZZZ but then I checked my flist for something to do, and lo, there was wank. Christmas has come early.
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Dec. 15th, 2009 11:13 amSo today, Dave set me the hard task of manning his office while he is at a faculty meeting, which consists of dicking around on his computer. He specifically mentioned YouTube, so I've been surfing around there for about the last... ten minutes, but that is enough. Why is it that I can sit there and watch videos for HOURS when I have things to do but when I'm going to be paid to do it I mosey over here to LJ to tell you all about it? I don't know.
I should take this time to work on my paper. I brought my computer and things with me so that I wouldn't have to come back out for the RUR reading that my classmates are doing tonight... and also because I think I'm starting to get on my roommate's nerves and quite frankly I don't blame her. We've basically been shut up in the apartment together since Friday afternoon and I could use the breathing room.
I did find one hilarious video.
There are MILLIONS like this one on just about every outrage imaginable and they're quite addictive. This one doesn't get too funny until the last one, there's also a very funny one about McG directing the Spring Awakening movie (for reals) and another about season five Supernatural (made before the season premiered). We are the internet and we are INSANE.
I should take this time to work on my paper. I brought my computer and things with me so that I wouldn't have to come back out for the RUR reading that my classmates are doing tonight... and also because I think I'm starting to get on my roommate's nerves and quite frankly I don't blame her. We've basically been shut up in the apartment together since Friday afternoon and I could use the breathing room.
I did find one hilarious video.
There are MILLIONS like this one on just about every outrage imaginable and they're quite addictive. This one doesn't get too funny until the last one, there's also a very funny one about McG directing the Spring Awakening movie (for reals) and another about season five Supernatural (made before the season premiered). We are the internet and we are INSANE.
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Dec. 12th, 2009 04:43 pmThey can't stop the signal.
That aside, I can't believe that I am two papers away from my first semester of grad school being finished. I am trying to make myself work but I'm still in that DUN WANNA stage right now. I have a document open and started so the thought's there, it just has yet to come to fruition.
That aside, I can't believe that I am two papers away from my first semester of grad school being finished. I am trying to make myself work but I'm still in that DUN WANNA stage right now. I have a document open and started so the thought's there, it just has yet to come to fruition.
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Dec. 7th, 2009 03:56 pmMy protocol is done, in the three ring binder, and in my backpack. Unfortunately I still have two papers, a play to read, and six (x_x) sets of reading notes to complete. Wah.
ETA: Greg Grunberg. Why do you have to wankbait? Despite your constant plugging as Yowza I still loved you because you bring me funny shit and Milo (those two do not necessarily coincide).
ETA: Greg Grunberg. Why do you have to wankbait? Despite your constant plugging as Yowza I still loved you because you bring me funny shit and Milo (those two do not necessarily coincide).
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Nov. 30th, 2009 05:57 pmArgh.
I made a To Do list in the Gassner meeting this afternoon but it may as well be called "Things I Don't Want To Do." But I know I have to. :(
And then I got a phone call from some bill collector lady that says I owe the doctor in DeWitt money that I REALLY DON'T HAVE and so I called my parents and they said they'd take care of it except they obviously didn't. In conclusion, don't trust anyone else to take care of things for you. Ever. Especially when it involves your credit rating. It's only going to end badly.
My mom bothered me for a Christmas list last night on the phone so I made one and sent it to my dad to print out. How much do you guys want to bet that that's never going to make it to her either? Yeah, I didn't think so. It's mostly stuff that I am either reasonably sure can be acquired (i.e. books by Bernard Cornwell. He is not so obscure that a mid-sized bookstore in the Quad Cities is not going to have him in stock) or things that I have little to no chance of actually getting and so am not actually expecting to see it (i.e. a BlackBerry, a book of lectures on Othello, and the complete series of Rome). Things I would like that I can't actually put on a Christmas list: more time, more time to sleep, a time machine (are you noticing a pattern?), that people would stop being assholes, a cure for being homesick.
Then I read a spoilery interview with Sera Gamble and I want it to be January now. :( But it put me in a better mood temporarily. They seriously have to have the most amazing writer's room ever.
I made a To Do list in the Gassner meeting this afternoon but it may as well be called "Things I Don't Want To Do." But I know I have to. :(
And then I got a phone call from some bill collector lady that says I owe the doctor in DeWitt money that I REALLY DON'T HAVE and so I called my parents and they said they'd take care of it except they obviously didn't. In conclusion, don't trust anyone else to take care of things for you. Ever. Especially when it involves your credit rating. It's only going to end badly.
My mom bothered me for a Christmas list last night on the phone so I made one and sent it to my dad to print out. How much do you guys want to bet that that's never going to make it to her either? Yeah, I didn't think so. It's mostly stuff that I am either reasonably sure can be acquired (i.e. books by Bernard Cornwell. He is not so obscure that a mid-sized bookstore in the Quad Cities is not going to have him in stock) or things that I have little to no chance of actually getting and so am not actually expecting to see it (i.e. a BlackBerry, a book of lectures on Othello, and the complete series of Rome). Things I would like that I can't actually put on a Christmas list: more time, more time to sleep, a time machine (are you noticing a pattern?), that people would stop being assholes, a cure for being homesick.
Then I read a spoilery interview with Sera Gamble and I want it to be January now. :( But it put me in a better mood temporarily. They seriously have to have the most amazing writer's room ever.
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Nov. 21st, 2009 03:15 am( To Do )
Val and I went to see New Moon because her roommates bought tickets but then they didn't want to go. It was DEFINITELY worth it. I actually liked it better than the first one, I thought it was a lot better. I credit this to the fact that they had a bigger budget and they didn't put that nasty blue filter on everything. MICHAEL SHEEN was everything I could have wanted in an Aro and more. I'll stop myself there, but. Wow. VOLTERRA WAS VOLTERRA!THE SNOZZBERRIES TASTE LIKE SNOZZBERRIES! And the ending was perfect. XD
Perhaps even better was the impromptu theatre that was created when the fire alarm went off and we had to evacuate the theatre. First, some people refused to leave the theatre, and then the epic whining began while we were waiting outside for the firetrucks to do their thing. We eventually got to go back in and. Well:
[02:39]dramaturgy: Oh god. And then we were being let back in the theatre, so we were waiting for the movie to get started again.
[02:39]dramaturgy: When this group of tweens in the middle of the theatre start "ED-WARD *clap clap* ED-WARD *clap clap*"
[02:39]dramaturgy: And pretty soon we get, "JA-COB *clap clap* JA-COB *clap clap"
[02:40]thinkatory: *dead*
[02:40]dramaturgy: I WISH I WAS MAKING THIS UP, KITTY.
[02:40]thinkatory: SO DO I
[02:40]thinkatory: OH MY GOD YOU CANNOT MAKE THIS SHIT UP
[02:40]thinkatory: That is. XD
[02:41]dramaturgy: I was like DEAR GOD IT'S GOING TO BE A BLOODBATH.
Oh and there was more ~drama tonight. Honestly I think we're all at the end of the semester and we all need a nap and a juicebox but none of us are getting either so we're just cranky.
Val and I went to see New Moon because her roommates bought tickets but then they didn't want to go. It was DEFINITELY worth it. I actually liked it better than the first one, I thought it was a lot better. I credit this to the fact that they had a bigger budget and they didn't put that nasty blue filter on everything. MICHAEL SHEEN was everything I could have wanted in an Aro and more. I'll stop myself there, but. Wow. VOLTERRA WAS VOLTERRA!
Perhaps even better was the impromptu theatre that was created when the fire alarm went off and we had to evacuate the theatre. First, some people refused to leave the theatre, and then the epic whining began while we were waiting outside for the firetrucks to do their thing. We eventually got to go back in and. Well:
[02:39]
dramaturgy: Oh god. And then we were being let back in the theatre, so we were waiting for the movie to get started again.[02:39]
dramaturgy: When this group of tweens in the middle of the theatre start "ED-WARD *clap clap* ED-WARD *clap clap*"[02:39]
dramaturgy: And pretty soon we get, "JA-COB *clap clap* JA-COB *clap clap"[02:40]
thinkatory: *dead*[02:40]
dramaturgy: I WISH I WAS MAKING THIS UP, KITTY.[02:40]
thinkatory: SO DO I[02:40]
thinkatory: OH MY GOD YOU CANNOT MAKE THIS SHIT UP[02:40]
thinkatory: That is. XD[02:41]
dramaturgy: I was like DEAR GOD IT'S GOING TO BE A BLOODBATH.Oh and there was more ~drama tonight. Honestly I think we're all at the end of the semester and we all need a nap and a juicebox but none of us are getting either so we're just cranky.
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Nov. 10th, 2009 10:12 pmI am supposed to write a comparison of these two plays I read. I understood one perfectly and I just finished the other and I don't even know what the fuck was going on.
*facepalm*
*facepalm*
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Oct. 26th, 2009 10:23 pmSo like I said, Friday night I managed to get to go see Hamlet with Jude Law. The short version of that story is FUCKING AMAZING, and the longer version of that is FUCKING AMAZING and now we're going to talk about a few things.
( This is gonna get long. )
That aside, things are all right. I'm keeping busy. I'm excited because I get to do a full protocol for the Intro class, and I get to choose any play I want. I was thinking The Sea Gull, but now I'm thinking about doing Spring's Awakening. (Chris gave a presentation on Goethe and Faust last Thursday and I FINALLY managed to connect Melchior to Faust and Wendla to Gretchen -- I knew in general about the plot of Faust, mind you, but reading it really shed light on it.) I think it would be interesting to work on.
Right now I'm working on a production history project, where we had to cite three productions of any Ibsen play, or any other play that we've studied in the class up to this point. I chose Ghosts because I'm so over A Doll House, and I am remembering how awesome this play is. I haven't read it since I was in high school. I was going to do our next project (images and sound) on A Dream Play by Strindberg, but now I'm thinking I want to keep working on Ghosts.
( This is gonna get long. )
That aside, things are all right. I'm keeping busy. I'm excited because I get to do a full protocol for the Intro class, and I get to choose any play I want. I was thinking The Sea Gull, but now I'm thinking about doing Spring's Awakening. (Chris gave a presentation on Goethe and Faust last Thursday and I FINALLY managed to connect Melchior to Faust and Wendla to Gretchen -- I knew in general about the plot of Faust, mind you, but reading it really shed light on it.) I think it would be interesting to work on.
Right now I'm working on a production history project, where we had to cite three productions of any Ibsen play, or any other play that we've studied in the class up to this point. I chose Ghosts because I'm so over A Doll House, and I am remembering how awesome this play is. I haven't read it since I was in high school. I was going to do our next project (images and sound) on A Dream Play by Strindberg, but now I'm thinking I want to keep working on Ghosts.
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Oct. 12th, 2009 10:54 pmUgh. I am burned out for this week and it's only Monday.
Is it Friday yet?
Is it Friday yet?
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Sep. 21st, 2009 02:02 amThis was not a very productive weekend. :( Better luck next time.
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Sep. 23rd, 2004 05:28 pmOne e-mail since 3:00 this afternoon and I'm sad. I'm such an e-mail whore. ;_;
Today was a busy day, but I'm glad it's almost over.
OH. Today was my first venture into the library--
(i_am_dj: ::mocks::
midhenaer: At least I know where it is.)
--and I made the most wonderful discovery... ever. The AV department downstairs has about every movie I've wanted to see but couldn't rent for one reason another (usually brother or sister) and they're FREE so guess where I'll be visiting a lot. So I got American Beauty, Trainspotting, and Lolita (with Jeremy Irons and Dominique Swain).I am not a h0r for movies with Leviosa PBs in them. Well I have to have something to do this weekend when Leisl and mcdigitalgumby go home.
Actually I think I'm set for the weekend. A psych paper and a creative writing presentation are due on Monday along with up to act three of "Measure for Measure". Mrph. If I had a minute of free time I'd give myself a new LJ layout but as we see that's not happening. Oh well.
Today was a busy day, but I'm glad it's almost over.
OH. Today was my first venture into the library--
(
i_am_dj: ::mocks::midhenaer: At least I know where it is.)--and I made the most wonderful discovery... ever. The AV department downstairs has about every movie I've wanted to see but couldn't rent for one reason another (usually brother or sister) and they're FREE so guess where I'll be visiting a lot. So I got American Beauty, Trainspotting, and Lolita (with Jeremy Irons and Dominique Swain).
mcdigitalgumby go home. Actually I think I'm set for the weekend. A psych paper and a creative writing presentation are due on Monday along with up to act three of "Measure for Measure". Mrph. If I had a minute of free time I'd give myself a new LJ layout but as we see that's not happening. Oh well.
