--Heather #1

I am tired, and it is late, and I have a wedding to attend tomorrow, not to even mention homework and stuff, so while I have lots of important stuff to write, I am not certain that it will happen tonight. I'd just as soon make a few short observations on videos I've seen recently and leave it at that.

But, no, I did say I was going to continue the socio-religious stuff, so let me at least take a stab at it.

[Ten minutes later...]

No, I think I'm just going to be going to sleep after all. Sorry about that. I'll try to be better about updating soon.

Oh, as for Thursday night, I unexpectedly crashed and burned long before I usually go to sleep, which is why there was no entry then. I'm not sure there's a pattern here, exactly, but the effects of my not getting much sleep until that point last week have clearly been catching up with me.

Otherwise, I've been shuffling around various course possibilities. I've been persuaded to at least ask the Choral Society professor what songs he's planning on assigning next semester before I give up on it entirely, so I'll have to find out when he has his office hours. With luck, I'll be able to speak to him on Monday, and we'll see from there. I feel kinda funny about broaching the subject in the first place, and I'm not optimistic about my chances, but, well, I have nothing to lose...

Otherwise, Women's Studies 310, the Research Seminar, is pretty much the one course I'm definitely taking, despite the fact that I've more or less decided to listen to virtually everybody I've asked about this and not worry about minoring in Women's Studies. It'd be nice, but it'd also be another source of stress as I'd try to get all the required courses in before I graduate, and, well, without it, I can have a lot more fun in my three (?) remaining semesters.

With that in mind, I've added Drama 100: Introduction to Acting, and Music 60: Rudiments of Music, to the list of possibilities. The former is more likely, partly due to scheduling considerations. I'd had Art 151: Drawing I as a possibility also, but the section I'd wanted turns out to be booked solid already.

As for heavier courses, History 392.W: Colloquium in Gender, Nation, Empire is currently neck-in-neck with Geology 100. I'm not taking both. The latter would fill one of my core requirements, but would take a lot of time. The former would be a lot more interesting, but would also take a lot of work, and wouldn't fill any particular requirements, now that I'm not shooting for a minor in Women's Studies. Decisions, decisions...

Either way, if I'm not taking Geology or Choral Society, then FNES 11: Physical Conditioning is in. Otherwise, time conflicts make it impossible.

The amount of strategy required to work out a simple program is ridiculous, y'know?

Speaking of which, I just rambled on for several paragraphs on that subject, but they're too sprawling, running off in five directions at once, so I'm transplanting them to my "scrap" file for now. I'll look them over in the morning and see if I can't get something more coherent out of them.

(Although the real problem is once again that the issue is too complex, and I want to start everywhere at once...)

That Darn Cat, starring Christina Ricci. I liked it. This was probably due to, and more evidence of, the following two facts:

1. I like cats.
2. I love Christina Ricci.

For the latter reason, I have been more or less dreading the release of Sleepy Hollow, because I know I'm going to have to see it. And, as stated repeatedly elsewhere in this journal, I don't like horror films. But if Ricci's in the thing... well, I guess I don't have any real choice. If not in the theatres, then definitely on video.

(Incidentally, I haven't seen the original version of That Darn Cat, although I did read the book it was based on, some years back.)

Heathers. Spoiler alert: If you haven't seen it, skip the next paragraph.

I'd heard a lot about this film over the years, which may have made my expectations unrealistically high. As it stood, I'll grant that it was a good film, but I'd expected all sorts of insights into the group dynamics of high school, none of which actually turned out to be there. Said dynamics are pretty thoroughly covered in the first few minutes, after which the rest of the film is mostly concerned with bumping off half the cast. Okay, issues are sorta covered, but the characters involved have gone too far over-the-top for them to matter. So the plot is not uninteresting, but... well, anyway, I think I'm rambling again.

And here I'd said I was going to sleep. I think I'd better do that already. G'night, all.