i was on the outside
when you said
you said you needed me
Sunday, February 24, 2008
I am the flakiest person ever. I might go to grad school in the fall afterall. Long story. I have no idea what I'm doing with myself. Best thing might be to wait until September and then ask me where I am. I'm sure plans will switch back and forth again about eleven times between now and then.
I'm kinda stressed about Roofsliding. I hope things go okay. We're supposed to be done with it on Tuesday. Ha.
I would like to develop more good habits. Things like writing daily. I miss that.
I haven't even started my independent study course. It's supposed to be done in about a month. Better get on that, or I don't get a degree in April.
The Lives of Others was astounding. I found it incredibly emotionally taxing. Everything a film ought to do, it did.
As a side note, only about two of the Oscars given out tonight went to Americans. Is it trendy to be foreign these days? Yay for Ferretti, anyway. It was well deserved.
posted by tuesday at 10:40 PM
3 Comments:
i DO need you! that's true.
what's that independent study? i don't remember you talking about that. is it essentially just a paper?
i noticed the thing about foreigners at the oscars tonight. although i think you're forgetting diablo cody, who is totally american. maybe more american than most americans. so that's the coens, the bourne dudes, diablo cody... and maybe that cinematographer from "there will be blood"? he was american, wasn't he? but pretty dang cosmopolitan in general, i agree.
Independent study classes are ones you take without a professor and a classroom on your own time. You do like, readings and online things, and workbook things . . . I think. I am taking an Art History one. I signed up for it in May hoping I could do it over the summer, but then I got a second job in Logan that took all my evenings. Then Europe, and I wasn't about to do it while I was home. And Tuacahn wore me to pieces . . . so now I have to do it during classes. Guh.
I didn't forget Diablo Cody. I was exaggerating for a dramatic effect. You forgot the Ratatuoille Pixar dudes, and I don't know about the cinematographer from There Will Be Blood. I don't remember. I'd have to re-watch the speeches. It sorta serves us right to have people giving speeches in different languages. If an American won a foreign award, I doubt he or she would be able to speak in that language to accept it. Unless of course it was in GB. David and I also hypothesized that they chose all the foreigners in order to keep the speeches short. And it worked! The Oscars ended ten minutes early this year. Yes, there were a handful . . . but by and large, Americans were losers. Or, at least, they certainly were not winners.
by the way, i don't think you're flaky. i think you're undecided. and that's a perfectly respectable place to be. i mean, I'VE ben undecided for nigh-on nine months now. some people would say i'm a dead-beat. i prefer to eliminate those people from existence. and i also prefer to think that indecision is a form of thoughtfulness. with each new piece of information, you reevaluate and form a new opinion on the situation. i appreciate and value that quality. so congratulations on once again earning my respect as a considerate and intelligent person.
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