on to the heart of the sunrise

We only have to write one paper a term (or more accurately, one paper every two terms, but it covers both and we're expected to work on it continuously - it's a work and research journal), but it's agonizing. There's basically no way to write it without sounding both pretentious and droning. I'm about five and a half pages in, and I need to reach twelve; it's not that I can't fill up the word count, but that I find I have to stop about every half hour to recover. I'm also trying to avoid talking about the thing I can really go on about at length, which is a rant about the script panels, because otherwise I'll wind up writing 30 pages without covering what I actually need to cover.

As a result, I am prevented from writing stuff I want to write, like an lj update, or two really exciting scripts. I do write really long e-mails, because, you see, they don't count.

I'll get through it. Aside from that, I'm having a wonderful time. My crew works together brilliantly, Ciro's back in school, I'm excited about my plans for the future along with the material I'm working on now, and my social life has been exactly as I like it - dancing dragons, Ang Lee films in exclusive cinemas, stunning photographic portraits, wine and cheese, and fun with camera equipment - all with some of my favorite people. And I keep getting showered with chocolate, which is fortunate for my caloric intake. The weather's still shit, of course. But the main film I worked on last term is being sent out to festivals.

A Titan of Industry

Something that has excited me greatly in the past few days is the fact that I have printed calendar pages off the internet and stuck them in to the composition book I carry around, transforming it from a journal into a journal/planner. I have never had one of these before! I sort of tried to have one in my Trapper Keeper back in 5th grade, but it didn't really work, because most periods of my life were either so heavily structured there was no need to refer to anything, or so unstructured there was no need to refer to anything.

But now! Now I can look at the dates all together! I can say "yes, I am busy then," or "hmmm, I think I could do lunch on February 22nd," or show people visual aids when I say "in order to do this before this, it has to be on this day." I have conquered time! It is arranged in a grid taped to the back of my notebook! Surely no one has ever before come up with such an ingenious system.