Script done.
Movie poster done.

Still have term paper due
and news stories due

Okay, so it’s home for the holidays and we’re supposed to be having fun, right? Well, let’s see. I’m working on my homework around the clock and Dad’s getting pissed because I’m on the computer all the time. Where else can I write a term paper, a screenplay and an InDesign portfolio of projects? It’s all COMPUTER WORK! *sigh*

That, and I play like 30 minutes of Final Fantasy X and he freaks out like I broke the 11th commandment. He’s always like this when I come home. This is the path I’m going down as a copy editor. I’m going to be working many nights a week from 3 to midnight, where my free time will be in the morning – which is when I will play games and sleep. I don’t think he can accept that. If I can, I’m moving out of the house when we move back to Chicago. Even if living will be rough, I want to run my own life – not have my over-conservative father dictate my free time while I’m 22 years old.

So yeah. We’re mowing the lawn again today. For no real reason except to get me off the computer. I miss my friends, being allowed to talk to them. The internet fucking sucks here! It goes out at 11 pm every night – and NOBODY CARES. Not my parents, not the city council, not the ISP. I can’t talk with Aidan hardly at all, my games online are moot cause when everyone else goes to be and its the right time to play, THE INTERNET GOES DOWN.

So while I’m working offline, my screenplay is nearly done. It has undergone numerous small revisions, and for the moment it is so large that I have considered taking a route many in the class are taking. Many of their plots are very detailed like mine, but in performances they are broken off at a climax or halfway point. The idea seems to be that we can get away with writing One-Act scripts, but the plot doesn’t have to be resolved in that one act. So, I will be submitting a script that has the action leaving the audience hanging and wanting more, and write the second act once I no longer have a dozen deadlines hanging over my head. Calcifer would do well to remind me to keep working on that. Easy way, shmeazy way. It’s still 30 pages longer than the next longest script, and the majority of my written action is kept in Act I. I’ll be content to get all this work done in quality time and effort.

There’s gotta only be like 3 people still reading this, and maybe another once every few months. What is everyone up to these days if they don’t feel like commenting? Has the whole world but me died in a nuclear apocalypse?

BTW, Dota .49b is the shit. Too bad my computer overhearts every minute or so. Another thing on my RL to-do list. *sigh*

Lawnmowing time. At thanksgiving. What is the world coming to.

NEWS FLASH:
John, I am able to come to your place for winter break – but it won’t be for very long. My parents did not want me to stay there for too long. I have plane tickets set for me to arrive in O’Hare Airport on December 28th. I will be picked up on the morning / afternoon of New Year’s… aka January 1st.
That gives us roughly four days to spend with each other partying. I tried to ask for a full week, but it didn’t happen. Make plans accordingly if you can. I’ll get you more details as they come in, such as time of day to pick me up.

Working on the script rewrite. Will take several days.
Have a term paper to write. Will probably only take one day.
Have three design projects due after break. Ordered InDesign to work on them over break. Will take a few days.
Have three newspaper stories to write during break. Will probably take a few days.

Work
Student Government / Senate follow-through story
Apportionment Board follow-through story
Biology Department Graduate Student story
RSO Funding story
Cultural Diversity Requirement story

Class
Media Management term paper
Advanced Playwriting script revision

Creative
Calcifer online dialogues
Silverheart’s story fiction
Tiamat’s story fiction
Paladin’s Quest revision
D&D adventures fiction

Journalism major, Creative Writing minor
I’m in for a world of writing, I hope.

Been a fool, been a clown
Lost my way from up and down
And I know, yes, I know
And I see in your eyes that you really weren’t surprised at me
At all
Not at all
And I know by your smile
It’s you

(“Adieu,” from Cowboy Bebop;
Emily Bindiger)