brokenrecord

Ok, I've been sucking at updating this, so I'm going to make a conscious effort to update this every day. I mean, it's not that I don't like updating, and I like being able to go back through my entries, but I honestly just... forget to update. So I'm going to try harder at updating and at commenting and hopefully be more present.

...today is not really a good day to start this, though, since I have a 5 page paper due tomorrow and I haven't written a single word of it yet. I think next semester I'm going to take like all math and hard sciences and hopefully I'll have one semester with no papers. Or at least just one. I really, really hate writing papers. sigh.

Um, but, quick update! I don't know if I mentioned it or I just thought about mentioning it, but I've been watching Eli Stone. I really, really want to like it because it's Greg Berlanti and I haven't not absolutely loved anything I've seen of his (well, not entirely true; I didn't absolutely love Jack & Bobby. But Everwood and Brothers & Sisters I love infinitely) and I think the lead actor is really good and an interesting character, but... I just can't get into the show. Part of it I think is that there's no ship for me to latch onto, and that's usually a key factor in getting me obsessed with a show (and there are exceptions to that, of course; there's no ship I really strongly support in Brothers & Sisters, for example. I enjoy Robert and Kitty, and I like Kevin and Scotty, but I became obsessed with the show before Robert was introduced and before I started really liking Scotty, which didn't happen until this season). But the other part is... it's not really anything special. (Of course, this is my opinion only.) I'm hoping it gets a lot better, and I'll stick with it for awhile, but so far it's been pretty disappointing.

I have to say, I planned my schedule pretty badly this semester. Like, all the classes are good, but I have way too much class on Tuesdays/Thursdays, and on Tuesdays/Thursdays, the pairing of the classes is really bad. I start with English, where the aim is trying to interpret the meaning of the books we're reading and figure out what the author intended, and then in the afternoon I go to Film Analysis/Visual Culture where we discuss semiotics and discourse and cultural studies theories which basically all center around the fact that there is no meaning inherent in works, individuals can't transfer meaning through objects, and meaning is socially constructed and completely arbitrary. gah. It's a bad combination, because I just end up feeling like everything we discussed in English is totally worthless and pointless. And I'm kind of really wishing I hadn't taken Film Analysis/Visual Culture because we had a test last week that was basically just a one hour, in-class essay (oh god I hated those in high school so much, I thought I was done with them) and I'm pretty sure I did horribly, and it's such a long class (2 1/2 hours so we can have film screenings, except we haven't started actually watching movies yet) and I think it's going to be my hardest class, and there's another class that would've been easier, had no papers, and had a professor who is awesome (and is also my adviser), and would've been MWF so I'd have less class TR. sigh. Oh well. Too late now.

Ok. Back to work. (Or, more like, start to work.) I'm looking forward to it being tomorrow. (Especially because new Torchwood! Except I probably won't watch it until Thursday. But still! Also, MWF classes are awesome and laid back and so much better than TR classes.)