Busy like a bee. I have found time to do fun things, like play midnight 4 square, watch Dexter (I'm addicted!), and play dress up photo time with my friends, but acidemics are taking over.
School is like this parasite that latches on for dear life. I have been extremely busy with my six classes this semester. I'm taking: Shakespeare, Victorian Literature, Once and Future Heroes, Western Civilization, Experimental Film, and Screenwriting. SO, all in all. Loads of reading and writing. I cannot truly complain because I like to read and write, but it makes blogging harder.
Today in my Shakespeare class we were just finishing up discussion on a Midsummer Night's Dream and I'm going to write a paper on the play in comparisson to the 1999 movie. I like how today's media is mostly revolved around reruns, redos, and recycles. This past weekend I also went to go see the movie Easy A. Which, like a Midsummer Night's Dream has Stanley Tucchi in it :), is loosely based on a Scarlet Letter, but not really.
Being in a screenwriting class has made me realize that the idea of things being original, new, or fresh is not only hard work, but also very rare. If things are standing alone, they are always somehow influenced by something or a reminant of something else. I don't mean to get all philosophical, but we were just reading Socrates' Apology in Western Civ. so it's on my mind. I wonder how things can ever truly be untouched, untainted, or uninfluenced by the world we live in.
