Variety Show Skits!

If you care to watch. (I'll write a proper post later.) Sorry about the quality on the live skits.









So, if you watched, hope you enjoyed it. :)

WDIST Syndrome*

*Why Did I Submit This Syndrome. Allow me to explain.

There's this class at school that I desperately want to take next semester. It's called the New Play Project. It's basically a collaboration between the Creative Writing students and the Theater students. This year, it'll be focused on creating a serial show.

I REALLY WANT IN THIS CLASS. But to get in it, you had to send a 10-60 page script to the professor and also tell him about your background in theater. So I polished up a piece that I wrote a little over a year ago (Peace, Love, Untied Sneakers), and sent it off last night. I also made a big, fat deal of my two years of a high school playwriting class because, as mentioned before, I REALLY WANT IN THIS CLASS.

So immediately after I hit Send, I thought, "WHY DID I JUST SEND THAT PIECE OF CRAP. It is awful! It wasn't ready! I am an iiiiiiiiidiot!" That is WDIST Syndrome.

(This is why I haven't started querying for any of my stories: fear that I will have a nervous breakdown.)

But today I got an email from the professor saying that it sounded good and he'll be in touch after break. So around March 7.

Here's hoping. *Fingers crossed*

Editing scripts while sleep-deprived: A brief look.

Script:

CHESTER
I used to be a Mountie, I'll have you know. That is...
(Looks haunted)
Before the Summer of the Squirrel Moose.
(He slowly puts his hands over his face, breathing heavily. The others just stare at him.)

ASHLEY
Sorry. Sometimes he has Squirrel Moose flashbacks.

TESSA
I'm sorry, but... what in the name of sanity is a squirrel moose?

ASHLEY
Half squirrel, half moose.

CHESTER
(In a dark voice)
All deadly.

Meanwhile, this whole time I've been giggling like mad. And, like I usually do when I'm overtired, I decide to bother my mother.


Me: Mom! Mooom! In the play, there's a Squirrel Moose!
Mom: *At a loss for words*
Me: It's half squirrel, half moose. All. Deadly.
Mom: *Sighs*

48 days until spring break!

First day back, and I'm already counting down. Though in my defense, counting down helps the semester pass more quickly.

This semester I'm taking 16 credits again, just so my last semester (EVER! AHAHAHAHA) will be easier. It's also the first semester I've ever not had an English class. So that's weird. But anyway, this semester consists of:

• Human Communication Theory- had this today, and it seems like it'll be really cool. The teacher said if we missed class, then he and the TA would hunt us down, and then asked the TA to show us their gun. So that was hilarious. It also only lasts 50 minutes, and there are like, 140 students in the class. I'm not even exaggerating. We have a whole lecture hall, and it was almost packed.
• Environment, Technology, and Values- had this today, too, and it doesn't seem too bad. Had to take an Area 7 class to graduate, otherwise I probably wouldn't take it.
• Intro to Media and Telecommunications- I'm really excited for this one because it's in the Chemistry building, and I've never been in there. Plus my cousin is in this class, so that'll be cool.
• Interpersonal Communication- the book makes this look interesting.
• Psych Perspectives on Gender- Kirstin had to take an Area 3, and we usually take a class together every other semester. So yeah. It sounds really easy.

Meanwhile, I'm going to be working on a one act play for the New Play Project. The NPP is this class Western has every year during Summer I, and it's kind of a collaboration between the Creative Writing and the Theater students. Basically, we write the plays (and by "we", I mean the lucky students who get accepted), and the Theater students perform them. *Thumbs up*

So that's what's new! :)