Surprise, surprise!
I’m actually writing an entry from somewhere other than work: the house.
So, I suppose I should start off with the fact that that group project I was terrified about [for my Shakespeare class] actually came together really nicely. Sure, we didn’t rehearse as much as we probably should have but with what time we had we created something that I’m actually quite proud of. I might even post the script we wrote on here (we’ll just have to see if the formatting cooperates)!
Now, onto exams. I’ve already got three under my belt (Criminalistics, Intro. to Poli-Sci, and World Religions); just Shakespeare and Foundations of Lit. Study left to go. I feel good about Criminalistics and Poli-Sci – Religion could be a disaster but I’ll have to wait to see the actual mark (I just wrote the exam today). In the meantime, I’m preparing mentally for my English exams and still have a few readings to do; I’ve already proven I can read Hamlet in a day so I’m confident I can do the same with Richard III and Richard II (I never learn, do I?) though it’s not going to be fun.
On the other hand, all of this reading has only served to further inspire the writing I do in my spare time.
I still have a multitude of projects on the go (in my mind and on the page) that I’m itching to continue. However, as the narrator in The Yellow Wallpaper would say, it takes great energy for me to even do that much… maybe a sign that I’m not as mentally well as I’d like to think I am? Only time will tell, I suppose. I feel okay though, for the most part. Since Christmas looms ever closer, I’ve been missing my friends and family a lot more – can’t wait to see Shawn and relive some of our crazy antics, even if we’ve slowed down in our old age (ripe, old twenty)… to share stories with my parents and Dylan of freezing my balls off as I walked to an exam at 7:00 a.m. this morning with little studying beforehand… to be back in a city that, although it has it’s problems, I’m still proud to call home and still believe I’ll be able to change one day.
Then again, we live in a world where Donald Trump is pretty much the POTUS. What does that really say about the state of the world?
To me, it almost explains why the superhero genre of film has grown so exponentially over the past decade in terms of box office and general public awareness: this world is slowly becoming “unsaveable,” is what people are seemingly starting to believe. Why then would it not seem logical to elect a second-rate Batman villain to be your president? In a world where politicians have returned to blatantly lying to the masses about their true intentions – intentions which are publicly exposed and ignored. Justin Trudeau teeters on a fine line between trustworthy and not… but even saying that isn’t necessarily fair: the man has only been PM for a year. But when do we stop saying “[so and so] has only been [such and such] for [seemingly short amount of time]”? When do we stop believing that these so-called representatives of the peoples’ interests are who they really say they are?
Scratch that though… because Donald Trump never had to lie about who he is. He only had to lie about what he’s said and done! Wait… I’m sensing a contradiction here…
Regardless, the world is in such a weird place. I didn’t even mean for this post to wander off into that territory but it’s hard to speak up about it in an era where anyone with an opinion will just yell that they’re right (ignorant of any actual facts) until the other side shuts up or backs off momentarily. The loudest group gets heard first. And yes, I apply this criticism equally. But I refuse to believe in any way, shape, or form that Donald Trump is good for America. Recently, I read an article (reluctantly, mind you) written by Sean Penn about the death of Fidel Castro and Trump’s America. A very, very interesting read… though, I would be remiss not to bring up his prior history of abuse; specifically, an incident (well, more than that) involving his ex-wife, Madonna:
5 Beloved Celebrities Everyone Forgets Did Terrible Things (Cracked)
After reading that, you may not want to read the Castro/Trump article but… ya never know:
Sean Penn: Hollywood, Havana, and Me
I think I’ve also heard low rumblings that Madonna may have debunked the whole abuse thing but Cracked’s source for that was Madonna: An Intimate Biography so I don’t really know what to think. Either way, I take abuse allegations pretty seriously.
On the other hand, the world is slowly drifting into madness.
Who really knows where we’ll be a decade from now… a quarter of a century even… what will post-Trump America look like? What will the world look like? I’m shaken by the images in my mind…
Will I finish my first novel by then?! Will this screenplay I’m working on be a movie or short film?! Why is my tea getting cold?
Answers for another time.
From all of us here at Channel 5 – wait, sorry, wrong place for that.
I should probably get some sleep.
thatfroninja. 