Some changes as a new semester beings...

I have started classes and with those classes come some changes. 

On Monday, I’ve begun yet another semester. So far still at the “getting the feel” stage of these classes. The Critical Theory and Practice class, which I described as “studying how literature is studied” happens around three times a week and I’ve already done class reading for. So far, it seems to be about that, with mentions of being aware of how you read a book and jotting down notes whenever something important jumps out. I’ve done some of that through only underlining so far, though I might use other note taking suggestions as I proceed to read on. Anyway, as I probably mentioned before, the professor’s one I had before and it would probably be interesting to see the ways literature is studied.
 

The Script Writing class is once a week on Monday and, in an amusing moment, I first met the professor when trying to track down the room number. The same number with different preceding letters led to some closet, and I was going to ask the desk people in the area I pass to go downstairs where the room was when the man having a conversation with them recognized me and directed me to the room. It was my professor. I never looked up a picture of him but apparently he did so of me or recognized that I was about to ask about his classroom. Whatever the case, I learned I’ll be with just around a dozen classmates and we went over the basics of what to put in a script. He mentions installing a script program that we would be using and that there should be a student version that would be free until the end of the semester but when I input my information at the website everything is still priced impressively and the free trial is only a month. I wouldn’t mind actually buying the program outright since it sounds interesting but I’ll talk to the professor about before I dive headfirst into it. In the meantime, I’m reading the script of Silver Linings Playbook, which is over 150 pages. Granted, script pages are short but still it’s a great commitment.
 

Which brings me to a great change in my usual reading habits. I’m likely going to drop reading from a certain new site. I talked about skipping certain authors before but after seeing the reading schedule for the semester, I went “screw it” and decided the most I would do with that site is read the summaries for each article. Maybe I would take a peak but I’m tired of being exhausted and want to have time to look at other writings in my free time, whether for pleasure or research for stories. Heck, with a steadier sleep schedule, I might eventually be up to be able to read faster again. We’ll see how much I’ll progress on that front when I grow used to the class reading schedule.

 

And as for posting fanfic, I’ve reviewed so I would have something to post at least until April. I’ll see how well I do at spotting grammatical or other flaws when I post and if I get any reviews that comment on it. As for the usual writings, I’m not yet sure if I might have to scale back to one page per day or not since script writing will be coming on the horizon soon. That might eat up a lot of writing time. Once I finish with the Smile liveblog, I’ll see if I could add some more writing time in for long chaptered stories like Past Wild Endurance. Will see. 

Anyway, I’m planning to see my first 2016 movie on Thursday, Kung Fu Panda 3. I can’t believe how long it’s been since I saw Kung Fu Panda 2 in theaters. It’s getting consensus reviews of B- so far, and I surmise I would enjoy it regardless. Let see if the main villain here gets the same Draco in Leather Pantsing as the antagonists from the previous two movies. From clips, he seems amusing. The film after that is Zootopia, which comes out in March. I admit, I poked around for spoilers because there are books released and that gave away a plot twist for Frozen. I kind of regret doing that. Let’s just say there’s a few twists and you should steer clear of spoilers.
 

Well, that’s all for now. Still trying to get to some manageable sleep schedule for this semester. Hopefully I’ll be able to adjust to some kind of good pattern. Until the end of February, see you!