So far so good. Things have been going rather smoothly this week and I have been enjoying things. Yesterday I went to work at Financial Aid. I was pleased to find out that Mrs. Martin was back working. Mrs. Sansbury is nice and everything but she is a tad bit too moody for me. It can wear on my nerves after awhile. For the most part it was a quiet, chilled day at work. The counselors all had to go to an interview so Mrs. Thompson asked me to work up front for about an hour. Well while I was in the front office, this black guy with a very heavy accent came in asking about the Pell Grant. I explained to him what he needed to do which was fill out the FAFSA and then the guy passes gas and then tells me about it before he leaves the office. Ariel got a kick out of it and I was just appalled by the whole thing.
Michelle White's History of Modern Britain was very interesting. Our first exam in on Monday, February 9, 2009 so I am going to start studying for it. We learned about the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror from the view point of England. As usual Mark and William - the two know-it-alls in the class - were constantly interrupting Dr. White interjecting things that they probably felt were relevant to what she was lecturing on. All it did was annoy half the class and prevent Dr. White from finishing the lecture.
Sybil Baker's Publications course was down in the Sequoya Review Room. We broke up into our two groups - prose and poetry - and each group went into one of the cubicles in the basement of the UC. Katie, Gavin, Ashely, and I were the only prose people there so we cleaned up our cubicle which also doubles as the Author's Society cubicle and we got our computer set up. We all cleaned up some of the stories chosen for the Sequoya Review and we also added three more pieces to the journal based on the fact that we had nine more pages to fill. Things actually went well today and we got a lot done but afterwards we had a meeting with the Poet's Club Officers which were Trenna, Anne, and Emilia. We were discussing what to do as far as writing exercises go for the joint meeting being held next Tuesday. Trenna suggested that the poets write prose and vice-versa. The others had issues with this - except Emilia who can write both. Gavin then told me that he essentially dislikes my writing exercises because they force him out of his comfort zones. Gee, don't they all force us out of our comfort zones. Last time I checked, no one in Author's Society can write something perfect in fifteen minutes - at least I've yet to see them. Besides, me and Katie and a few others are the only ones who actually come to meetings with writing exercises so as far as I'm concerned, if anyone has an issue with the exercises, put up or shut up. For some reason when he says things like that it irritates the crap out of me. I know I can be opinionated but it's always straight-forward. He says it in his whole 'let's be friends' sort of way and its actually even more insulting. I'm glad I'm not going to Chicago. I would be one irritated guy that entire trip. I dunno, I don't know why things Gavin's been saying lately have been bothering me.
Tom Balázs's class was awesome last night. I am really getting into this playwrighting thing. For the past two weeks a visiting playwright has been teaching our course. She was incredible and I learned so much from her. It seems to be a consensus from her and other professors and the Author's Society that my strongest suit is dialogue as far as my writing goes. I really want to work on honing the other aspects of my writing but it's good to know that there is something that I am good at. Brandon, Lori, and Jeremy had their plays read and they all received some very positive feedback. I enjoyed all three. We also read a play called The Ferris Wheel written by the same guy who wrote Doubt. I've been really enjoying Dr. Balázs's class this semester. He's really broken out of his shell since I last took his class back in the Fall of 2007.
Today I went to work at CSAS and I helped two girls named Amanda and Chelsea fill out their FAFSAs and I made an appointment with another student for Friday. So far so good. And then Mrs. Thompson emailed me to tell me that I was going to be paid more than I initially thought I was so I was really happy about that.
I left a little early from CSAS to have lunch with Jeremiah. He and I don't get to hang out that much now that he works at Blue Cross / Blue Shield. He had 45-minutes so we drove to Southern Star and had a really quick lunch.
Michelle White's History of Modern Britain was very interesting. Our first exam in on Monday, February 9, 2009 so I am going to start studying for it. We learned about the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror from the view point of England. As usual Mark and William - the two know-it-alls in the class - were constantly interrupting Dr. White interjecting things that they probably felt were relevant to what she was lecturing on. All it did was annoy half the class and prevent Dr. White from finishing the lecture.
Sybil Baker's Publications course was down in the Sequoya Review Room. We broke up into our two groups - prose and poetry - and each group went into one of the cubicles in the basement of the UC. Katie, Gavin, Ashely, and I were the only prose people there so we cleaned up our cubicle which also doubles as the Author's Society cubicle and we got our computer set up. We all cleaned up some of the stories chosen for the Sequoya Review and we also added three more pieces to the journal based on the fact that we had nine more pages to fill. Things actually went well today and we got a lot done but afterwards we had a meeting with the Poet's Club Officers which were Trenna, Anne, and Emilia. We were discussing what to do as far as writing exercises go for the joint meeting being held next Tuesday. Trenna suggested that the poets write prose and vice-versa. The others had issues with this - except Emilia who can write both. Gavin then told me that he essentially dislikes my writing exercises because they force him out of his comfort zones. Gee, don't they all force us out of our comfort zones. Last time I checked, no one in Author's Society can write something perfect in fifteen minutes - at least I've yet to see them. Besides, me and Katie and a few others are the only ones who actually come to meetings with writing exercises so as far as I'm concerned, if anyone has an issue with the exercises, put up or shut up. For some reason when he says things like that it irritates the crap out of me. I know I can be opinionated but it's always straight-forward. He says it in his whole 'let's be friends' sort of way and its actually even more insulting. I'm glad I'm not going to Chicago. I would be one irritated guy that entire trip. I dunno, I don't know why things Gavin's been saying lately have been bothering me.
Tom Balázs's class was awesome last night. I am really getting into this playwrighting thing. For the past two weeks a visiting playwright has been teaching our course. She was incredible and I learned so much from her. It seems to be a consensus from her and other professors and the Author's Society that my strongest suit is dialogue as far as my writing goes. I really want to work on honing the other aspects of my writing but it's good to know that there is something that I am good at. Brandon, Lori, and Jeremy had their plays read and they all received some very positive feedback. I enjoyed all three. We also read a play called The Ferris Wheel written by the same guy who wrote Doubt. I've been really enjoying Dr. Balázs's class this semester. He's really broken out of his shell since I last took his class back in the Fall of 2007.
Today I went to work at CSAS and I helped two girls named Amanda and Chelsea fill out their FAFSAs and I made an appointment with another student for Friday. So far so good. And then Mrs. Thompson emailed me to tell me that I was going to be paid more than I initially thought I was so I was really happy about that.
I left a little early from CSAS to have lunch with Jeremiah. He and I don't get to hang out that much now that he works at Blue Cross / Blue Shield. He had 45-minutes so we drove to Southern Star and had a really quick lunch.
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