So the semester has started, you know what I said about being bored out of my mind? I’m not regretting those words. This is going to be a hard semester, but a fun one if I don’t let myself get overwhelmed by it all. To top it off, my boss at work is working at another store for a month and she called me panicking because their inventory is coming up and absolutely nothing has been done to prepare for it so I’m heading up there in a bit to help her. I don’t want to but I desperately need the money right now so I can’t say no. I don’t want to work as much because there’s going to be a lot of stuff going on this semester, but if I want to be out of the house by June, I’m going to need to work as much as possible and not have a social life.

So how are my classes? Most of them are fine. Most of them… My class on weather and climate is fine. He shows us power point presentations and his notes are available online so that’s fine, but attendance does count as 15% of the grade (which I think is stupid) and he makes us sign in so he can study our signature to make sure people don’t sign their friends in (which I also think is dumb). I take a lot of notes as well because I will remember it better, but I’m genuinely interested in this stuff so I really think I’m going to like the class.

My Theatre History class is going to incorporate some computer science stuff into which I think is weird. We’re going to be using a Wiki which I have no idea what that is but I assume it’s like a class discussion board. However, our first homework assignment (due tomorrow) is to read the first two chapters of a book that’s on backorder, and the professor doesn’t quite understand that…

I’m taking this class called Women Writers and the Past and I thought it was reading about female authors from way back in the 16th and 17th centuries. Safe assumption right? Well, I was wrong. It’s actually female contemporary authors who write about women in the past. Right now we’re reading Girl With The Pearl Earring. I’ve read it before and I liked it a lot so it’s not that bad, but I’m still a bit thrown.

Then my Directing Workshop…don’t even get me STARTED on this freaking class. It’s a workshop, practicality, you spend more time using your hands than reading a book on how to direct. But this professor doesn’t seem to get that. There were 7 books for the class with tips of the trade. We have to go to see 4 plays (which I don’t mind because I love seeing them) BUT then we have to write a critical essay on each of them. We then have to spend 6 hours at a rehearsal for one of the four plays and study the director to see what he or she does. Then at the end of the play we have to direct a short play that everyone will come see. A lot of the other professors in the English department have put going to the shows on their syllabi (I think that’s the plural) so the pressure is on.

In that Directing Workshop though there is a girl whom I admire terribly because she held me together while I was stage managing. She was the costume manager for the show and we leaned on each other when we needed to scream. We’re going to work together for a lot of the stuff in that class (like the homework) and we’re going to go to all of the plays together as well!

I feel like this post was just one big pile of complaints. Sorry to those who read this…