Monday, March 22, 2004

So it is, or was, Spring Break. Go figure I just figure that out today at the end of this so-called "vacation." I have not really done much except do more work for the school newspaper, which I am about finished with what I have to do for now. So that is good. We ended on a good note Saturday, and are unable to come in on Sundays. So if we can have another Saturday tomorrow, it should be good to go. Currently we are working on our feature magazine, the Edge. It is supposed to go along with every issue, but we never had time to this year, and we really do not have any this time either. We are pushing for it this time, however. It is just difficult to do when you have a staff of around 14 or 15 people, and only 4 of them actually work. One of which is someone we borrowed from the yearbook staff and another is the adviser. I love doing graphics for the journalism department, lol. I am pretty sure I am going to get the life beat out of me when we put this magazine out. The theme for it is Aristotle's 14 Emotions, one of which is hate (or as we call it, enmity). We have a story on racism, prejudice, etc. and out graphic/photo illustration is a guy in a Klan hood with an angry look in his eyes. Since I put it together, my name gets the byline, and thus I am going to get the beating, lol. However, that would be the ultimate compliment. It means we did it right. This break I have not done much else except sit around the house and play my guitar, try to clean up my room, or watch movies. I have decided to take the frame and box matress out from under my spring matress and just sleep on the one matress on the floor. This way I shall not be tempted to stuff things under my bed. I have watched three movies I had never seen before: "American History X," "Matchstick Men," and "Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star." "American History X" was a really good movie ... I mean, really good. It was very impactful, and left me silent at the end. In fact, after it was done, I went into my room, layed down on my bed and fell asleep. It was only about 7:30 p.m. "Matchstick Men" was pretty good; above average I suppose, but nothing grand. The acting was all very good, the characters were all believable, and the plot was held strong throughout the movie. "Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star" was a lot better than I thought it would be. I never heard much of it when it was out in theaters, nor did I ever see a lot of previews for it, but it was actually pretty funny. Of course, it is a comedy, but there have been few comedies lately that have actually made me laugh out loud. David Spade is just excellent with what he can do sometimes, so it was nice to see something from him after a while. As for my whole "relationship" situation, not much progress has been made. As I am sure I may have said before, we do not see each other often. On the bright side, however, she is allegedly coming to see my play with her friend that is kind of the "middle person" between us. I say "allegedly" because they have yet to buy tickets. I figured this out Wednesday after my art class. She waited for me near the door where I exit and talked to me a bit until we got down to the next floor where she would meet up with another friend of hers. One thing I definitely made sure I did was enunciate everything correctly, as I tend to trip over my words often, especially when confronted by someone I hold in such regard as her. I even split up my contractions at first, lol. Saying, "How are you?" instead of "How're you?," for example. Diction is good. She mentioned hearing I am in a play, and I confirmed the information. I asked if she was planning on seeing it, and she said she was going to try to. I am going to take that as a yes, and prepare for disappointment ... just in case. We received our costumes for the play on Friday, opening night is this upcoming Friday. For those of you who have seen my costume from Cinderella, I feel like the Herald gone goth, lol. A lot of the components of the costume are the same, but it is all black aside from my shirt and collar. I have pants (which I actually think are a very dark blue instead of black), a white shirt with frilly flares at the end of each wrist, a black vest, a thick black coat to wear over it, and a white clergyman kind of collar. It is all very interesting. I often get Dracula comments, as well as someone saying I look like Dimmesdale from The Scarlet Letter. Rightfully so, we are both supposed to be of the clergy. Some people from my newspaper staff leave for a competition in San Diego in about a week. Unfortunately, I am unable to go because I do not have the money for it. However, I was told by our Editor in Chief that I shall most likely be left in charge. *evil grin* Abuse of power? What is that? ... Kidding. ^_^ However, I shall probably become a bit more militant than usual. I doubt with our adviser and editor gone, that the rest of our staff will be so inclined to actually want to do work. I have no reservations what-so-ever about telling them flat out I think they are lazy pieces of crap. I have done it to a couple of them already when I see them just slacking off. For example, if I need to take photos of an indistinct part of a person for an illustration, I shall go up to them and say something like, "You want to make yourself useful for a second?" What is funny is that they actually go along with it. They do not even try to defend themselves. They know how much they suck. The End.

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