I forgot to add this part to my blog post yesterday:
Nametags? Really? Can't you at least TRY to figure out which one of us is which first? Ok, I know I may sound like a whiny brat at this point, but you have to think about having to deal with this just about every year ever since I started going to school. This has given me a major aversion to nametags, even when I'm doing it for a business reason. Yes, I'm a quadruplet, so it may be hard for you to figure out which one I am, but please at least try first. Do you know how embarrassing it is to have EVERYONE in the class get nametags because you don't want to single the four of us out? The worst part is that teachers that do this don't even try to figure out which ones we are first. Here are a few simple ways; we have different hair styles, wear different colors, and sit in the same place about 9 times out of 10, please at least try there first. If, after that, you can't figure me out, then give me the option of a nametag. Ok, that part of yesterday is over. Now onto today. Today was really uneventful, I went to class, I went to work, I ate dinner (which was really good today, thank god for London Broil) and then went back to my apartment to hang out with my sisters and plan on going to see the Lego movie with some friends, potentially. The only class I had today was Into to Ancient History and while it's only the second day in class, I'm already feeling a little discouraged. I feel like I'm the only one that doesn't understand what's going on in class. Our first class he just jumped in asking who came first Moses, Julius Ceaser, and Alexander the Great. I barely remembered anything from those times or knew what year specifically (B.C.) when they happened. Then we started talking about Mesopotamia today and I got even more discouraged. We were looking at laws that had been created as well as the idea of how Mesopotamia started and where it is/was situated geographically as well as who were the people that lived in specific city-states and who were the ones that created the politics and who were the first ones to write things down and specific gods that the people prayed to and I. Don't. Know. Anything. I don't recognize any of it at all, it's already making me feel upset and overwhelmed, especially because of the quizzes we have to take where dates are important and I'm not good at all... Hopefully the weekend will be very good to me. I see it as a time where I'll be happy and laughing a lot. Plus, it's supposed to snow all weekend so fingers crossed! See, I can keep a positive outlook on things. :)
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Today was a looooooooooong day. From 10 AM-8PM I'm completely busy and am going from thing to thing. The latest any of my days is supposed to end is 5 and/or 5:30. But I'll get to that in a minute.
Bright side is, that every day I get to sleep in. Sleeping in to me is about 8:00 or so because I always get up early (depending on how late I got to sleep) so I'm really excited about that. Also, every day except for Thursday my classes don't start until 10:20 or so, so I get some extra time to do what I want before classes start! Woohoo!!! My first and only class of the day is/was Into to Ancient History. Anyone that knows me know that I suck at history. I'm terrible at memorizing dates. Knowing the significance of things that happen as well as where I'm fine with, but dates are my kryptonite. It's my kryptnoite, I tell you! It's trying to kill me! So we'll see how things go there. My teacher is really funny and nice and can go off on tangents sometimes, but he really enjoys what he's teaching so that should be a great deal of motivation for me. Best part, we have 4 quizzes assigned for the class and only have to take up to two, deciding to skip whichever ones we want. AND the 'long papers' that we have are only 750 words. Thank god for that and the fact that I can e-mail them all so I don't have to worry about wasting the last of my 300 or so prints. Annnnnd we know the day of our replacement for Tinker Day and I can't wait for that day off. First day of classes and I'm hoping for a day off already. I don't think I have seniority, but I'm getting close. Or I'm just hoping that warm weather gets here so I'm a bit happier but that's neither here nor there. I went back to work today too and that was just as good as it was before. I think Mack and I are one of the few people that enjoy working where we do. Yeah, we're the only two work study students there, but we got to know our supervisors really well and we're always laughing about something while we're working. I actually enjoy it, plus it's a great way to get ready for the potential office work I'd be doing later in life, depending on where I get a job. Though our office is a bit more relaxed than most, so I may need to get prepared for that and quickly. Then there was World Music officially and as usual I loved it. I just love being able to play music and play some of my favorite songs on the steel pan. It makes me excite for my bass lessons the next day. There's just something about the way a song sounds when you get it right after ages and ages and ages and ages and ages (I could go on) of messing it up. I'm so much of a perfectionist with my music it actually really annoys me sometimes. Then my sisters and I judged the finalist poems for a contest and now we're all snug back in our apartments with the heat. Did I ever mention that I hate the wind as much as I hate the cold? The only time I like the cold is when it snows and if it doesn't snow enough for me to get a day off or something, then it's not worth it. All in all, I'd say it was Is it sad that spring semester classes start tomorrow and I still don't know my schedule? Haha. Anyway, not much went on today. We just drove back to school and once again I could tell how far away we were from our final destination from how I started to lose my voice. Somewhere around the two hour mark of straight singing my voice cracks terribly and that's usually where I start to lose it.
Thankfully, it makes the trip that much shorter. Bright side, I'm getting practice done on my singing. I'm not saying that I'm good, but I'm not saying I'm terrible either. Also, I learned that it's really hard to sing lower notes. Yes, my voice is kind of deep, not like super deep, but slight deeper than a girl's voice is normally registered (up until I get worked up or start going on a rant, then my voice gets high and squeaky. I actually learned something about deeper voices on females in corolation with guys from the book The Male Brain. It's a good read and very informative. I enjoyed it, anyway. But, yeah, I was singing to the song Hanging By A Moment by Lifehouse and I prefer the deeper parts of the song (best thing about being four of us is that we can harmonize/sing different parts of the song that are our favorites and it still sounds good. I think so anyway) and it was actually pretty difficult to do. Anyway, here's the big news. There's only (about) 3 months left of the school year. February, March, April, and part of May (before exams). And those 3 months are going to fly by. I never knew that time moved so quickly, it seems just like yesterday that I was in second grade with my friends, looking at the chart that listed all of the years that students graduated in and thinking 2010 would never get there. Then freshman year I thought 2014 would never get here. Jokes' on me. So what do I have planned? Well, I'm blogging more, hope to get some more things self-published, and I'm hopefully working with an online magazine called Twin Life so that way I'll have a lot of different things to use as a writing sample if I ever need to when it comes to applying for jobs. Plus, all the extra writing will help me improve, there's always room for improvement. Forgot to mention this before, but I got a month down in my resolution of trying to blog for a year. So far, so good, though now I think I'll have more to talk about once the spring semester starts, rather than trying to find something interesting to say. You'd think that being a quadruplet there's always something going on, but we can to turn our entertainment off at some point, people. Haha.
So, yeah, Spring Semester starts Wednesday and I'm excited for it, but at the same time dreading it because there's one class that I'm not too particularly fond of taking, but have to because I put it off since freshman year so that's my own fault. And, you can't enjoy every one of your classes but I digress. I have a big grab bag for the different kinds of classes that I'm taking so it should keep me interested in some way. Plus, with the different kinds of classes, you all shot be entertained with how I'm able to keep up with my blogging, what goes on as a senior is about to graduate, and everything in between. On a side note, don't you hate it when you're writing something and it never comes out the way you want it to? That just happened with a chapter of a story I wrote and when I'm done with it, I might just delete the chapter entirely. But such is life, everything can't be perfect. So for my J-Term class, as I've said in numerous blogs before, our final project was to write an episode of a currently running TV sitcom. And the one I chose is 2 Broke Girls. So my blog for today is the link to read the episode I wrote. Keep in mind this is the first time I've ever written a TV sitcom. I hope you all enjoy it.
2 Broke Girls - "And The Bad Day" I never realized how much work actually went into screenwriting until it came to this class. And yes, screenwriting for film is different than screenwriting for TV. What I've done for a movie is a lot easier as you don't have to worry about differencing from different scenes as often (at least I haven't had to when I was in a film class). In this class it's somewhat annoying because I can't do different cuts of mention where cameras are looking.
It took me a bit to get used to the fact that I didn't have to do that as well as it took me a bit to figure out how to get the script formatted. That's the only thing that's been giving me some sort of trouble, it was the most irritating thing making sure that everything is centered right. And because I did this in a word document as opposed to a certain file to use, it makes it that much more difficult, especially considering some of my pages have blank spaces that I can't fix. Oh and because I have to keep printing more than one copy of my script, by the end of this J-Term, I'm only going to have about 300 prints left and I have the rest of the school year to use up those prints and most of my classes are English. This especially stinks because I don't have the CD to install my printer onto my computer and can't find a driver online. On the bright side, I'm really enjoying what I'm writing with for my script so at least that keeps me preoccupied. I've come to the realization that I've been in school for so long that I barely remember any of the classes I've ever taken while in school. I don' t know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. It could mean that I've learned so much that it doesn't matter what class it was in, but it could also mean that I've learned so much that I can't keep anything straight anymore.
The good thing is that I can't forget any of the teachers that I've had while I've been in school. There have been some teachers I've liked more than others, but all together, they've really helped me. They've increased my interested in some subjects (such as french and some areas of history) as well as helped teach me that there are things that I'm not particularly interested in. They've also taught me that there are specific ways that help me study. I'm not a person that can sit somewhere and listen to someone talk for over and hour and a half and hope that I'll take it in that way. I need to have some sort of visual aids to be able to get some things, and the more teachers have done that, as opposed to make me memorize facts that I constantly get mixed up, the better I feel about it. Amidst this personal reflection of my academics of the past four years, I've come to the conclusion that I'm going to have a lot more opportunities to figure out what things I want in my life and what I don't want. And figuring out some of those things during this month gives me high hopes for the next semester. Whew! Almost forgot to blog today.
So my sisters and I are part of the World Music Ensemble on campus where we play the steel pan and the african marimba. It is sooooo much fun. I was hesitant in joining for the first time in my spring semester of junior year but I wish I joined sooner. The songs we play are so much fun, I always really get into them and I'm always so excited when we get new songs to learn how to play. We learned Under The Sea from the Little Mermaid last semester and ever since the first time I heard that song, it was my mission to learn how to play it. The funny thing is that when we were younger, my sisters and I would hear the song and we always said that we wanted to learn how to play that song like a jamaican song (of course this was waaaaaaay before we knew what a steel pan actually was). It's so cool to know that years later we learned how to do just that. And not many people know how to play the steel pan or the african mallets so it's something unique. The standard instruments that most people know is usually the piano, guitar, drums, violin, or saxophone, so I'm glad I was able to learn instruments that not many people would learn how to play. Plus, Mere was the one that got african marimba at school because they brought them in after she auditioned for the music department by playing the marimba so that's pretty cool. I always look forward to the times where we practice our music (apart from the times where I get frustrated where I don't get anything quickly, because I'm such a perfectionist with music. Don't get me started about how angry I can get when playing the guitar) because it's always something new hat we work with and polishing up old songs which I love as well just puts a big smile on my face. And playing the two instruments for the rest of the school, our parents, or whomever comes to listen to us play is always fun because we get to show off our abilities over the semester when a few students have just started playing that semester and sound so good. Yes, that was a tiny hint for those of you that go to my school and don't watch us perform, you need to. Wow, this was kind of a rambling blog, but it's 11:21 at night, we're probably not going to get school tomorrow when everyone else does, I'm watching Read World/Road Rules Challenge: The Inferno 2 on YouTube, and I'm kind of tired. So I have an excuse. So during class today we had to work on writing and identifying set up sand punchlines in scripts. We watched The Office and Everybody Loves Raymond to see how two different TV shows tell jokes in sitcoms. Its actually interesting to see how they differ though they're both sitcoms. The Office has some that are a bit more dry and quick while Everybody Loves Raymond has some that are slower and funnier.
We had exercises where we had to write our own punchlines to jokes. I was glad to hear that some of the ones that Mack and I came up with got laughs. My sisters and I like to make people laugh and we like to think that we're funny so getting the comment "you guys are so funny" as well as taking the time to come up with some jokes for already established characters, we're glad that we can do it. We don't see making people laugh as a way to validate ourselves, we see it as a way to make other people feel better. Some times when we see that someone is feeling down, we will try to purposefully fight or do something silly so we can make someone else laugh. So if we become actresses, or TV writers, or just continue to write series of books we hope that there are moments that make people laugh out loud, or even chuckle, or just have something that makes their day because that's the biggest compliment to us. Peace. Not much happened today because I had a day off of classes. Yay! The best thing though is that my outline for an episode of 2 Broke Girls has been approved. It was my first idea and the one I really really looking forward to so I'm glad my teacher responded to it so well. She said that she was excited for the idea as soon as she read it and that she thought it would be a perfect episode for the show.
I hadn't started watching the show until after I made the outline so when doing my idea for the episode I was really making things up as I went along, based off of one simple idea I had. So the positive feedback I got on it made my day and made me excited to get started on the script in general. Tomorrow we're talking about writing in a character's voice as well as writing jokes on Thursday so I'm excited for those classes as well I can already tell the difference with some of my humor writing from this class so I hope that it can help with some other aspects of my writing as well. Especially when it comes to pacing and expressing something in the way I really want it to. Otherwise, what really mad eme happy today was the fact that it was 'knock off fast food day' in the dining hall. You know what that means? NO MORE PIZZA! For the past week and two days I've been here, there's really been nothing that I've wanted to eat other than pizza. (And this beef roast that was actually pretty good). They changed something with the dining hall so if you want chicken or burgers and fries you have to go to the RAT so there's not much to choose from in the dining hall. I was so excited to have fries for dinner today and not pizza, you have no idea. Today was a good day. Nothing too exciting, but nothing dull either. I'm ready for the rest of the week and tubing Saturday and ice skating Sunday. Peace. |
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Loves anything red. Rock music, playing the guitar, drawing, writing, tattoos, and sports are some of my interests and hobbies. I like to laugh, I like to think I'm funny. I talk a lot...just a warning. Archives
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