I'm not sure why I thought my life this semester would be easier than last semester. Yes, I'm only doing 13 credits, but 10 of those are upper division and nine of those are W courses. So besides having to come up with an article idea for Adv. Creative Writing, I have to figure out an idea for 30-40 pages of writing that I can stay interested in throughout this whole semester for Literary Journalism. I wish I was just doing Adv. Creative Writing and Literary Journalism and could devote all my time to those two big projects. But I have to do Mass Comm & Society (an icky upper division comm. class required of all mass communication majors) and Intro to Public Speaking. (Yeah, I know, I could have got that out of the way a LONG time ago, but after changing majors numerous times and having to try to get in all the required classes for my current - and final - major, I decided to leave speech until last since it's offered every single semester.) So that's my classes this semester, oh and orchestra as well. Anyway, my point was that I wish I could just take the two classes I actually care about taking and not the other annoying ones. Oh well, it could be worse. I could be doing a full 16 credits, or more...
Tonight Danielle invited Bryn, Jonathan and me over to her new apartment for supper after orchestra. Jonathan and I made a quick trip to our apartments to get some pizza-bun-making supplies while Bryn and Danielle got the rest of the food at the VM. Then we traveled together to Danielle's apartment and all pitched in to cut up the vegetables and make the pizza buns (basically mini pizzas using thin buns as the crust) and a salad. It was a nice relaxed time and I was sad when it ended because that meant I had to get to work again. Of course, lots of my homework this semester will be writing and reading so I got started on "Oranges" by John McPhee which is the first book we'll be reading for Literary Journalism. I love it so far. I wish I could think of something interesting like oranges that I could immerse myself in and research while here at school, but all my ideas sound incredibly stupid in my head. If any of you can think of something, definitely comment and let me know.
you love a good challenge so I know you will come up with something good, like giving your cat a bath, or the benefits of children playing board games...
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the pizza buns sound like a very good idea... I am hungry now.
I am so glad you're still in ACW, even if it is stressful for you (I hope that doesn't stay for long). I hope your writing classes go well. I have a bunch, too, and I am, somewhat stupidly, thinking about adding another something since I've missed music so much. Music lessons, however, would probably only add to my stress. Why not do something cool with oranges?
ReplyDeleteIf I did something cool with oranges now I'd feel like I was just copying McPhee's idea. I'm less than halfway done the book now and my brain is crammed (fuller than my closet) with facts about oranges!
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