It's only the first

How is it only the first and yet I look at November and think I'm in trouble?

A good week in spite of the tooth

I mean really, when I spent Sunday reading the Stephen King novella Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption and then last night reading the screenplay for Shawshank Redemption you can't call homework a hardship. Lately I've been full of ideas for Adaptations. Part of that is Debbie being good at asking the right questions to get me excited about the ideas I have. I was talking to her about Dupin vs Holmes and she thought I'd have fun adapting a detective story. She also didn't discount Holmes just because it's been done a lot lately. Though she also liked the hook that makes me interested in The Mystery of Marie Roget. Then I told her about the Cape story I'm considering. She said, "That sounds perfect for you, but you should write it as a short so that you can actually shoot it." Except I'd been thinking I should write it as a feature and it could be the first feature I shoot. Too many ideas, not enough time. No, that's not true, all the time in the world. I won't stop shooting movies when I graduate. 

The good and bad of this week

I feel like I was really productive this week. I just pawed through all my syllabuses and updated my to do list for the next 10 days and I'm not behind on anything yet. Though there is plenty of reading and watching in my future.

So, good things that happened:

I am not a fast reader

This is not actually news, but I feel like I'm noticing it more. I like the book I'm reading for class this weekend (Producing and Directing the Short Film) much better than pretty much any of the books we read last term. I feel like last term most of the reading I did was for Film Studies and frankly half way through the term I stopped reading those books. Not because they weren't interesting, they were a bit. But they were dry and it was taking forever to get through them, and they were covering the same stuff that his lectures did and his lectures were very engaging. I liked the books for screenwriting, come to think of it. And I only skimmed the production book because it was all stuff I knew.

I will never complain about the snow (though Blue might)

It is currently 20 degrees cooler in Boston than in College Park right now. I am so looking forward to moving north. Though I suppose costal has as much to do with it since Albany is just as far north and exactly half way between us in temperature at the moment. People who don't know me well have been saying, "You're moving north? Good luck with the winter." I say bring it. I will take all the snow you want to throw at me if it means I won't have to suffer through these summers any more.

On another note, I'm slowly making progress on packing. Still definitely in the getting worse before it gets better stages, but I'm chipping away. My laundry room looks so much bigger with all the crap out of it.