First off, let me express my utter sorrow at the passing of Heath Ledger.
Aside from that terrible news overshadowing my day, first day of classes yesterday was okay. Brit Lit is hardcore and I’m already floundering in all the reading and analysis we have due for Thursday. Fortunately, the teacher seems pretty cool (in an English major way), and Bridget is in the class. I’m sure the readings will be fun, too. Went straight from there to Honors, where I’m with most of the castle Honors kids. The class is ethics, which unfortunately we also studied last year, so this semester is going to majorly be a repeat. Which sucks, but the teacher has said she’ll let us cite ourselves from previous papers. She seems really nice, too, but she talks so QUIETLY that it’s hard to hear her in the big room.
THEN, fifteen minutes after that ends, is my sketch comedy writing class. Which is going to be a blast, even if thre’s a boy in there that I really dislike from last year (he thinks he’s amazing but he’s truly one of the WORST writers I’ve ever read, and I never say that about people; I wouldn’t even say it now if he wasn’t so arrogant!) Basically, our class is now a sketch comedy troupe. We’ll spend the entire semester putting together a show, and then perform it (10-12 sketches) at the end of the semester at a comedy club in Cambridge — one of the top comedy clubs in the nation! I’m soooo excited.
The evening was spent mainly reading Brit Lit and Honors stuff. Ate dinner with Amanda and Jessye and a bunch of their friends. Watched American Idol with Diana, Heather, and a bunch of the boys on Heather’s floor. Late at night, David came to visit and we chilled for a bit in my room, then went to visit Jessye so she could show us the new song she learned on the guitar. Wound up falling asleep with my Lit Bit open around 1am.
Today struggled to get up. I hit the snooze button on my alarm clock every ten minutes for an hour and a half before I could finally force myself out of bed. It’s like last year all over again. I’m going to start taking those seratonin pills again to see if they’ll help, but I think I only have maybe a week’s worth. If they work, though, it’s worth it; I don’t have the time to be napping all the time.
Had a forensics meeting with Heather this morning. I’ve got my prose piece, now, as well as themes and some material for a poetry AND a POI (which I hadn’t planned on doing). Still needing pieces for duo and DI. I just had a lightbulb abotu a good DI piece! I’ll go look this weekend, which is when I’ll hopefully get EVERYTHING planned out and put together because first tourney is in two weeks and I start work next Tuesday. Good news is that since I’m doing POI, maybe I won’t have to do impromptu!!
Now have yoga class with Jessye in ten minutes. I’ll have just enough time to come back and change before my four-hour photography class. Then homework, American Idol, homework, floor meeting, and more homework. The good news about all my classes but one being on the same day is that it gives me more days to do all my homework. The bad news is, it’s all due at once.
Fortunately, I’m starting to get my room a bit more decorated (Ashley gave me her Mucha calendar from Prague and I cut a bunch of the illustrations out). And I’m still getting to see friends amidst floundering under all this hoemwork. If I have this much just from the first day, I’m terrified of what the rest of this semester is going to be like!
