I had a good time at Kitty's Halloween Party! But I'll talk about it tomorrow night when I actually have time..

Now on to the weird stuff..

Remember in previous posts when I said things move near me? Like, when I get rid of energy some how like crying, bleeding, screaming, etc...(I don't do any of that much)..within 24-48 hours, objects will move on their own around me (often in my direction)..I used to think it was the ghost, but I noticed in the last year about the connection to me getting rid of energy..

Well, I hurt my leg late Friday and cried two tears (wow..that's REALLY too much..I really need to stop crying for stupid crap like getting hurt)..well, I couldn't hold them in :( Well, after that I was thinking "Oh, great. What is gonna move now?" and around 36 hours later, our "Quest for Fire" VHS tape jumped off the TV..my dad thought it was a sign..I blamed it on the ghost, even tho I'm thinking it's just another event corresponding with my theory..

Other things that have moved:

Saw Knife
Library Card
Box
Napkins
Notebook
Mechanical Pencil
Phone Cord
Dishes
Papers
CDs
Other Stuff

But then..how am I to prove this crap? More than half of it has happened with only me in the room..so like other things, no one believes me unless I have witnesses..so basically it didn't happen if I was alone..

[edit] Sorry about the rant below..it gets happier under "in other news" [/edit]

um...3 hours of sleep has been interesting.......I'd be in bed if my dad didn't up and invite company at 9:20 PM.............he's supposed to "drop something off"..........I guess he is dropping off many words..........not his fault..............I think Angel, our youngest cat is deaf, now........the construction dudes in our basement suck.........we tell them to shut the door because we have indoor cats......one guy shuts the door each time..........the other dudes don't care.........on Tuesday, when I was away, they left the house 2-3 hours early and didn't tell my mom.........she found the cats outside.........the door was left wide open for 2 1/2 hours.........she got the cats back in..........we locked them in a room on Wednesday, and I yelled, "Hey! Are there any holes in the basement? Like a window open?" and dad told them to shut the window and of course, the don't.............all day today, we thought Angel excaped.........well, we weren't that lucky...........my mom found her, but with the jackhammering, we think she can't hear anymore...............the construction dudes don't care.........to them it's just a cat.........how would they feel if I put antifreeze in their pets food? Wouldn't THEY be worried that their animals are in danger?............Now they aren't on schedule and my dad won't take off work.......meaning I flunk my college class (for not showing up) and have to wait a year to get it again........and pay over 1,000 dollars..........It's my fault that I can't drive (I mean the DMV lied to me and I haven't been able to walk 15 miles to the DMV since then), so my parents won't pay for college.........we are paying these dudes TONS of money and we can't even have the right to pay them less for their neglegence of their job and damage to our pets and my carreer? my mom said a neighbor might be able to drive me.........yeah, right.....

In Other News..

I was too lazy to make the color composition costume..but last night, my dad brought up a box (so big I think they think I'm 100 lbs. heavier than I actully am) and my mom cut it..I used my old "photo scraps" (my old test strips from a year's worth of photography classes) for the TV face...I cut them up and did a mosaic/collage thing to make it look like a TV with bad reception..a lot of people (even young kids) got that I was Samara from "The Ring"..that was fun! I got to give out candy to my classmates and friends at lunch..a classmate from Writing for the Media class gave my classmates and I a flier about writing for the new school newspaper..so that would be fun..especially if someone else could edit it..like, my WFTM teacher or something..he was really good at explaining what was needed to be changed and why..

In Tuesday's class, we turned in our scripts..Virginia, Jenny, and Megan helped me by reading the script..Virginia seggested they read the dialog out loud..that made my murder story into a comedy! It was so FUNNY!! Well, we pitched them in class..usually I go 5th, but I decided to go 3rd because I felt that since we all had the same basic story, people will start losing interest after the 5th person..So I bomb the pitch...I talked too fast, didn't say my name, didn't say what the title of the script was, and didn't say "thank you for your time" twice! So, grr....but I kinda got worried when people started having the main character die after the chase and some had him or her alive at the end and it was all a dream..DID I DO IT WRONG? I thought we were supposed to follow the treatment..the teacher said to have EVERY scene that was in the treatment in the script..um..I'm pretty sure he dies in the treatment (and before the chase)..MAYBE people had him "die" in a metephorical sense....somehow...I felt bad for my friend who had the whole script and showed up 30 seconds late and got a 0 on her script because of being late..that's why I'm there at 12:25 p.m....

Today, our storyboards were due..it took me 7 hours to draw yesterday and this morning..57 frames...it's not much, I think..people had pages and pages..it's just hard for me to DRAW what's in my head..I can DIRECT people and TAKE PICTURES of the ideas..I can explain my ideas through SPEAKING..but I can't draw...I called my people "Mr. Potato Heads on stick figures"..then, I'd slow down on some (like the last scene) because the "technical photographer" side of me comes in and tries to think about HOW I'd get the shot..like, I was thinking "I need to use a wide-angle and have the guy fall 5 feet away from the car" and "OH, CRAP! People don't fall like that!" and then I changed the legs of the dude so it would work right..it was hard too because I had to depict NIGHT...so I scribbled darkness in the empty spaces..

The funniest thing was at school, my friend Clarissa that I talk to a lot, had THE SAME opening scene!! Her teacher was a photography teacher, too!! And we both had circled f-stops in our first scene! The only difference was that her teacher was a girl and mine was a dude..We never discussed the details of our script before today!..at the time that we thought we were doing our own movies, she asked me to play the teacher in her movie..I don't like to be in front of the camera! But I said ok because I wanted her to be in my movie..

Well, in class, I thought we were gonna present our storyboards..I was ready to "bullcrap".."bull craping" to me is when you put a lot of terms from the class in your presentation and you look like you were paying attention in class and understood when half the time, the idea of using some terms comes after you're done, rather than before..even though, I've gotten so used to it that I know what I'm gonna bullcrap about WAY before starting the project..which I guess is a good thing..

I wanted to talk about how I used light and dark to contrast moods and how the teacher is surrounded when he is safe and alone when..alone...and how I wanted the shots toward the end to be closer and thus cut off more of the background and surroundings and have more off-frame elements because that's when the "fear" part of the movie is and the guy is really paranoid and thus afraid of the unknown..so I made it so more and more is unknown to the audience..and how the mugger looks anonymous and is silhouetted and becomes a blurry shadow during the chase scene to represent Death catching up with the teacher-dude..

Well, Jim (our teacher), had guest speaker talk about deadlines and then had a lecture with movie clips..then he said something like, "Lets do some presentations!" and so he picked some people's storyboards out and they presented them..the first guy (he was in my Typography class and is really good at coming up with ideas), he did a great job of explaining *cough*bullcrapping*cough* his storyboard..he even talked about the red/cyan contrast with the skywalk! YOU GO DUDE!!! and the other people had good ideas, too! Then the teacher asked for the next student to go and this dude already had his storyboards so I guessed he was picked and then later, another guy comes over and grabs his storyboards and said, "I was supposed to go next." so I thought he was picked..I didn't want to volunteer until I knew we could and then, just before the end of the class, the teacher gives me my storyboards meaning I go next..we ran out of time, so I get to go first on Tuesday..

But now I'm over analysing..did he want me to go next because he wanted me to present or was it because I was picked randomly? He told us that the top 3 scripts are gonna go on to production and that storyboards and pitches were important, too..I know I screwed up the pitch, I have no clue about the script, and I'd hope that if he picked me to present that maybe at first glance, it's worth explaining? Whatever way it goes, too many people wanna see it made into a film, so I'd probably film it in a year (when I can finally afford a camera), using my friends from high school and my college lunch table as the actors and crew..

Wee! I can finally go to bed now!

G'night!

Halloween Costumes

I'm so lazy..all I have is the colors from the Color Aid picked out..I still have to cut them into squares and find a way to attach them to the shirt..

As for the other costume, the volumizing shampoo worked on the first wash with it and I'm wondering how big my hair will be by Thursday since I have to be at the house on Wednesday because of the guys workin' on our basement..all I want is for my hair to be hard to see through when it's wet..right now, I can see through it, so it's not thick enough..I forgot to get my hair dyed yesterday, I'll probably wait until Wednesday..my hair is gonna be brown/black! Right now, it's medium brown with redish highlights..my natural color is medium dark brown..I need to find a box..and my photo scraps..I KNEW those test strips from a years worth of photography classes were gonna come to some use someday..I'm cutting it and making a mosaic face of a TV on the box and put it around me..I should paint the box black..

I'm documenting the costume-making process..I should have done that for the last two Halloweens..I don't even have proof that I made a Pepsi can outfit two years ago..3 hours to make and in the end, it gets ripped up :o(

Still need to find a fog machine for Kitty's party on Sunday..

I hope the teacher doesn't want us to dress nicely Tomorrow and Thursday for pitching our script and storyboard ideas..COME ON!!! It's HALLOWEEN WEEK!!! I'm bringing in candy and I really hope I get to wear costumes..

Frustrated

Well, the script is now 6 1/2 pages long..I keep rewriting it because people come up with good ideas on how I should change it..Tay [edit] and Bunny especially [/edit] helped me with grammar..no one else caught the grammar mistake..and after asking 3-4 people, I've found out that no one understood the ending..so I rewrote it and Kierston got it..sort of..but she was close enough and she doesn't watch the movies I watch, so it's a huge improvement..

[edit]Stephanie said she got the ending! Actually, how she thought the ending was was SO much cooler than what I originally thought it was gonna be..[/edit]

I'm waiting to hear from Kitty and Austin..they watch the movies I do and I know at least Kitty thinks like I do sometimes..she seemed to understand when I told her the story in the car..I understood it when I read the treatment..but then I'm always wondering if what I see or experience is real or not, so I question scenes in movies..that's how I guessed the ending of Identity easily..

[edit]My friend and classmate, Clarissa, read the treatment and thought like my dad did about the ending (I'm not saying what it is because if I show it on here I want y'all to be in the dark about it)..she watches dramas so her take on it will be cool when she writes her script..I'm a psycho-thriller freak, so I'm like "THIS STORY ROCKS!"..before we received the story, I actually was gonna write a longer story about a group of people realizing they're -- WAIT! I'm not telling the ending, so I can't tell y'all the endin' to my story idea, because the concept is the same..so....yeah [/edit]

I changed some of the details to make it more understandable and I planned some of the parts to have spiritual/mythical meanings to it..and I think I know how I'd shoot it to get the effect I want..it helps that I'm always taking pictures of campus..even at night lol..I think I'm gonna play with basic techniques to get what I want..the only problem is.......how am I gonna get a "busy street"? I'll have to be like, "There's 2 cars coming! Start shooting!" and shoot when they pass by..if my friend gets a digital recorder, I might be able to barrow it and record the OTHER street that actually gets more traffic..and then I want a scene with a car going at the camera at 35-50 mph..

oh, well...I'm not actually sure we get to shoot the scenes in our heads, but I think we have to draw up storyboards of the scripts we wrote..so, yeah, that will be fun..stick figures and alien-looking anime-esque people..yay..

Yesterday

I went with Kitty to her Karate class..she got kicked HARD in the stomach..I was filming the class and decided to get a better shot, so I turned it off to delete the previous clip and right when I stopped recording, I hear a BANG and look up to see Kitty laying on he on her back laughing..some of the guys in her class were light "That's not right, dude!" "I can't believe you kicked a girl!"..

Kitty said that she ran into the kick by accident, but it was so cool to fall down that she's not gonna promise to not run into a kick like that again..it was funny!

She's going for her blue belt in December..the class is just starting to really fight each other well, and it's funny to see two dancer-like girls being afriad to fight each other and when they finally getting better at it, they kicked too hard and they both hold their leg pain and almost give up at the same time..

We went to her Anime Club meeting and those guys are hilarious..I don't watch anime, so all of these cartoons are new to me and people in class insert dialog and make fun of what's going on in the episodes..IT'S SO FUNNY!! It's a much better movie experience when others make jokes during the whole thing..

On the way out of the parking lot, one of the guys stood in the way of the car and Kitty pretended like she was gonna run him over..one of the other guys pulled him out of the way and Kitty backed up and acted like she was gonna hit the dude and one of the other guys again..the other guy used the first dude as a human sheild..THAT WAS FUN!

Kitty gave me the idea of what kind of teacher to use in the script for AVP class..It was a good idea because I was looking at some stairs and thought about how I have always wanted to use a certain stairwell..and now there is a reason..

I wrote the script last night/early this morning..it was EXACTLY five pages..the ending wasn't as "different" as I made it sound in my last post, but now I'm trying to think how I'm gonna get the shot I'd want from the place I know I would like to shoot from..I added some more detail and short dialog and it went to six pages..Then I changed it to Courier font and it get even bigger, but it's still six pages..I hope it stays within the time contraints..

Other

Remember the CGWG (Cute Guy with Glasses) in one of my classes? Well, he hasn't been there in 6-9 months..BUT I've given the nickname CGSGIC to another dude in one of my classes..it stands for Cute Good Singer Guy In Choir..cuz he's cute and sings like someone that would be in show choir (with a great voice and like a performing face when he sings)..if only I knew the dude's name..

Wee! I got the site up!

So, yeah, I got half of it up..but at least it's viewable..I have it set up so when people find the site on a search engine, they can tell it's an acutal site instead of a page of text..I've had that happen too often..

I wanna get some more pictures up on the gallery (Like CSCC and Connie & David's wedding) and then I'll add the art section and the rest of the content I had at WC..I'm just having some formatting problems..

This layout is actually version 2..version 1 was larger and I felt that it was harder to understand for those who have smaller resolutions..but I don't know..maybe I'll skin the site..both versions use the silhoutted angel..the original one is dark and mysterious..the thing bothering me is that she only has one wing..I tried to use two, but it looked weird..so I stayed with one..

AVP Class

I found out that I got a 4/5 on one of the quizzes I thought I had a 3/5 on and got a 58% on my mid-term..I thought I got a 56%..ironically failing it by one question..

We got our story that we are supposed to adapt to a screenplay, storyboard, and eventually a 5-minute film..I hope we get time to shoot 'cuz people in class keep asking the same questions over and over again..I felt bad for asking for the name of a movie clip when he probably said what it was 3 times..Sabree answered at the same time as the teacher..if anything, I hoped it help Sabree by telling me what it was..but the teacher says almost every class, "You need to be here for every class because I show clips and the lectures are not in the book.." and a student says, "..that must have been from the day I wasn't here.." like it's the teacher's fault that he didn't email the student what they did that day???..HELLO!! It's COLLEGE! Email or talk to a friend about copying their notes..and then ask the teacher AFTER class or in an EMIAL any questions ya have..DUH!! and then, maybe it's because I read movie scripts for fun, I think some of the things people ask over and over and over again are common sense..but then, many of them have never read a movie script or read one and then compare it to the movie..or like I do, read the book, then the screenplay, then see the storyboards, and then see the movie, and then watch the director's commentary and the documentary about how they made the movie..I'm addicted to that stuff..have been for 3-5 years..the hardest part of others in the class is that all the concepts and theories are compressed into one class, rather than having a lighting class, cinematography class, etc..I've taken a studio photography class, which is basically lighting..that was a whole three months! Yet, half the students in the AVP class might have never touched a camera, much less know how to control lighting..

I'm a technical freak..I can tell you off the top of my head how to control lighting, perspective, DOF, and crap with a camera (a photo camera, not a video camera, even tho, it seems to have the same principles)..so I hope I can help my teammates learn even more stuff in this class..or at least I can have something to contribute..how weird will I sound when I start saying sunlight's not good to shoot in..even with the ND filter on, it would still be too contrasty..unless we decide we want high contrast..

Well, our story is basically about a teacher getting mugged..the teacher wrote it..it's cool..I described it to my mom the way I see it (it sounded like the way I describe my dreams) and she really liked it..I told her I didn't write it, I just added detail..she still thought the details were nice..I'm morbid and violent..I'm adding a little to the ending..hee hee..the only problem is that the teacher said we can't use outside people..I'm like, WHAT???? so I'm wondering if we can't use innocent bystanders (sp?) as extras? I would like maybe the teacher in the film to jump through a group/couple so they turn and are like, "What the hell?" and shrug and go back to what they were doing..we suppoesedly have to pitch our ideas to the class..I hope I'm allowed to say, "like" and "uh" and "you know" and "right?"..cuz I'm like, "There's like this teacher, right? and um..he's like teachin' class, right? You know.....um...and.."..darn Ohioanism..making me get a Texas/Ebonics/Valley Girl language..

Almost Done!

I'm very close to opening HopeMoore.com..of course, not all pages will be up, but it will have all my blog archives and a domain search..and some new content..

Karoake

That was fun! Kitty sang a Frank Sinatra song really well and then got me to sing "Sunrise" by Norah Jones (really badly)..It usually takes me 1-2 hours to warm up and I can't eat 2 hours before I sing just to get a good voice..I had just ate a "buckeye" pie thingy that tastes like a really rich candy buckeye and drank a coffee drink (OMG, ME????....a coffee drink???)..I told them the "instrumental" part is when you start singing off key..so I did and scared away the customers..later on, Austin sung "Hound Dog" by Elvis and even though he didn't sing the right tune, it was cool the way he sung it..it was like an adlib harmony part so it sounded neat..I sang the song, too..I think I was better with the Elvis song than with the Norah Jones song..go figure..especially when I'm a 2nd Soprano..around 9:30/10 pm, a girl that worked there joined us..They seemed to think it was funny that I was able to keep up with "If I Had 100000 Dollars" by Barenaked Ladies and the rap in TLC's "Waterfalls"..that's only cuz I know the lyrics mostly..

Class

Today, many of my classmates and I flunked our audio/video production midterm exam..the teacher, Jim Higgins, looked SO disappointed and I felt so bad for him..the biggest thing many of us missed was "List and Explain 5 of the 7 characteristics of good story ideas.." On the notes, there is a section labeled "Selecting an idea for a story" and subsections "Characteristics of good story ideas" and "Additional sources for story" (which when studying came out in my head as "blah blah for story [ideas]"..so my friend and I and others wrote down the info in the second subsection, rather than the first..I even reread the question wrong twice..that was 25% gone off the bat..I missed one of the 5% questions in the first short answer section and missed 7/30 true/false and multiple answers (which is basically still a C)..I even joked with someone that I'd be 1-2 questions below passing..and I WAS..I think...I think I got a 56%..you need a 60% to pass..I guess the average for the other class was 52%..so at least I might be above average..one person out of 25-30? people in this course got a 90%..the rest of us got Ds and Fs so far..that one person is either a genius or a cheater..hopefully a genius..

It was just sad to see a teacher get frustrated and disappointed..it's not HIS fault that we mis-read the question..he's a cool teacher..he does good lectures and warns people to be there every day and even put his lecture outline online for us to print out..he's a little Jon-like, but he has a good reason to be..he wants us to understand the concept before we go out and do any creating..I think it's a good idea! I've very interested in the concepts, I just mis-read the question and I suck at memorizing facts before we do hands on or seeing examples..in photography, we'd learn the concept while watching or hands on stuff and of course, with the elevator messing up and me working past class time, everything is repeated for the next class, so it was drilled in my head..of course AVP is different because the equipment is WAY expensive and belongs to the school and in Photography, we bought our not-so-expensive 200-300 dollar cameras and didn't work with the expensive equipment until a year in..

I Hate Viruses

I somehow got a virus or two on my desktop in my room (this is the laptop in the family room) and spent a few hours last night and this morning (like 9am) getting rid of the virus..at least I know now how to edit my registry to get rid of virus files..it got so bad that I needed to go into safe mode and STILL look through my files with the Command Prompt..thnk god my dad taught me how over 10 years ago..oherwise I'd have to get him or an expert to fix the computer..

I ended up having to restore it twice and it uninstalled programs and set everything to default! at least my files are still there..

SNL Bash

If I heard right, Saturday Night Live will do that presidential bash thing again! I loved the one back in 2000..its cool that they make fun of candidates and the candidates make fun of themselves! Of course, I still don't like either candidate..can't someone be down the MIDDLE????? Apparently not..I told my dad I'm voting "no" on Issue 1 (which is defining marriage to be between one man and one woman)..it hurts also unmarried straight couples as well as gay couples..what happens if I find my soulmate and he doesn't want to get married and we have a family, but you know, not married..this law could prevent him from seeing our child while in the hospital and crap like that..next thing will be a law saying that the only marriage recognized by the state will be those done in a CHURCH with a CHRISTIAN pastor..I honestly don't think our government should define marriage at all..just say the monatary benefits and other protection benefits (testifying in court) covers only one spouse..and the things like seeing a loved one in the hospital be for all spouses..they say that a marriage between one man and one woman is extremely universal..um..I always thought some cultures and religious beliefs allowed/encouraged more than one spouse, as long as the person marrying them has enough money to support them or whatever..apparently, people still think this is a CHRISTIAN country and thus must force those other people to change their values to theirs, rather than leave it up to each person to believe and live the way they want to..

But then, after semi-arguing with Dad about same-sex marriages, I came up with a movie scenario that I might actually write down this time..then in the morning, I kinda recognized it as tons of movies and books combined..but it's basically my whole fear of endings/past repeats itself/goldfish theories..and the movie is supposed to move and gain speed and at the end, it's like one last sprint for hope, just to have a feeling of running into a brick wall and then it ends..I don't wanna give away the ending, so I can't explain it any better than that..

Got My Temps

For those of you in other countries, that means I have a temporary liscense to drive with a liscensed driver in the passenger seat..I can't believe I missed 4 questions on the test! It was done with a Scantron machine, so I don't know what I missed..I think I got the question wrong about how far away from a turn do you slow down? I guessed 100 feet (I think) there was also 200 feet and 300 feet answers..and then there was a question about drinking age and BAC levels..the book I originally got in 2000 and the one I got from Kitty (from 2002?) had the old legal drinking BAC of .10..luckily I watch the news because in the last 6? months it's changed to .08..but the question was about underage drunk driving..I didn't know it THAT changed..grr..

Some of the questions were absolutely stupid..like each question had a picture with it..one of the questions had a stop sign on it and it asked "What does this mean?" and had answers like "slippery when wet" or "slow down"..come on! it says "STOP"..duh..I wonder what that means *sarcasm*..and then they had a photo of a road with orange contruction barrells and asks "What color is the background of construction signs?"..whatever..

So yeah, now I wanna try to drive, but my mom and others are telling me to wait until I get assessed to see if I need any modifications on the car..Dude, I only need a manual ramp so I can have my wheelchair if I want it..I can put the ram up and crutch or watch to the driver's seat and drive..everyone seems to think I need the driver's seat taken out, hand controls, automatic doors, and a gigantic machanical ramp..I don't think so..I think it would be harder with hand controls because I've seen too many drive normally and I would automatically want to drive that way..I'm used to breaking with my foot..not my hand..heck when I'm half asleep, my hand-eye coordination goes down, so it'd be hard to think "ok, now break with the left hand.." rather than "Oh, CRAP!!!" and put my foot down to stop..

Kitty and I were talking about going on a road trip around America..I've always wanted to and hope to some day within the next two years and film the whole thing..see how many people we can get to come so the driving and gas prices won't be too bad..if done within the next two years, the people we know will still be in college and can take a long time off better than they can take off work..

lol..the bridge was out when my mom and I came back from getting my temps in C-ville..so we went through town..I got to see "Charlie's" house..I think I saw his dad working in the yard..it looks like a cute house..I don't think Charlie was there tho..last time I heard, he was in the military stationed across the country..

Got a New Domain

PisoMojado.com and .net was taken, so I got iCantComeUpWithaName.com .. it will be the silly section of my personal site with porfolio outcasts such as the alien people doodles and the mediocre blends..the pictures that are blah..I probably won't host there, but I'll have a tutorial site..

Alien People Drawings

I went with Kitty to her karate class and anime club..I've have many people say my alien people drawings suck (they do, trust me)..but the anime club was showing a cartoon that had characters that look similar to mine!

We got free food from the Kerry campaining people..I walked by and was like "Kerry sucks!" and they asked, "Why does Kerry suck?"..I said, "Bush does, too..Kerry's too liberal and Bush's too conservative" they told me Kerry isn't THAT liberal..umm..how would THEY know? They are liberals..you don't notice HOW liberal he is until you are conservative or in the middle..just like my conservative parents would think Bush isn't that conservative..are you kidding me? I watched the second debate and I argued with both sides..one thing I can't figure out about conservatives and pro-life people..they want no abortion and no embryonic stem-cell research..um..I say keep early on abortion legal and use propaganda to deter people from it and to look into better options, but if they choose to do abortion, use those stem-cells for research! That way a supposedly "bad" thing will be going toward something good..the embryos used in the research would die anyway if not used for the research..if we are supposed to protect the embryo which is a potential life, then what about all the sperm and eggs that die all the time??? those are potentially a life..OH MY GAWD!! I'me killing babies every month! lol..well, at least potential babies..I don't agree with partial-birth abortion (unless it's done for medical reasons) because that's a baby breathing with a heart beat..um..that's a living, feeling, cognitive human..but like within a month into a pregnancy, it's still cells..I believe the soul and the cognitive mind are linked so the "soul" doesn't become connected to the baby until mid to late pregnancy when it responds to sound and movement..

ok, yeah..enough of that..as Kitty said, "Kerry's good for something..he got us free food!!!"

Kareoke (sp?)

Kitty's going to the Corner Grind today and is gonna sing..that will be fun! I'm gonna take pictures and video! I don't have the guts to sing in front of people I know in town..

Close to Gettin' Done

I have the writing section (with some new stuff), art section, and webmistress section..I added a gallery and I'll soon make the "larger view" links work at H20..I have to fix the link pages and set up some java script and it should be ready to go..I don't really like the layout I made..it's not really the style I'm used to doing and the idea I sketched out didn't work, so I had to do something different..it has contridicting meanings..so I hope that would at least be interesting and symbolize a part of me cuz I often believe in contridictory beliefs..often at the same time..

New Class

Woot! My class this quarter is Intro to Audio/Video Production! And I go there and guess what!! We get to make movies! Yeah, for the first class it's only like 5 min. I think, and then we work on a movie as a class for Winter and Spring quarters..I guess for Intermediate Audio (Winter) the sound is stripped from the movie we made in the class before and we have to redo all the dialog and sound effects..I think he said they're gonna build a sound-proof recording studio for us..right now we are in what I call The Room of DOOM or really, THE ROOM OF DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM..I CAN'T STAND THAT ROOM!!! It's evil, I tell you! I get in there and I automatically wanna leave and do something creative..my mind automatically wanders in that room..hopefully when we get the computers in there, I can keep my mind busy..

Oh, and it's funny..for 3-5 years I've for some reason have been obsessed with watching shows about movies are made, directors' commentaries, comparing the storyboard with the scenes from the movie, and reading scripts for fun..apparenty I'm one of the few people in the class that likes this stuff..I'm weird..I don't ever buy or rent a movie thinking it's 2 hours long..NO!! It's more like 6-10 hours long..cuz I'll watch the movie, the commentary, the director's cut or deleted scenes, how it's made, look at the storyboards and read the original script and compare them to the theatrical cut..it drives my parents crazy! But I'm really interested in not only HOW it's made, but the decisions and the psychology behind it..

so yeah, I'm weird..maybe it's because I daydream too much and deperately wanting to find a way to get the daydreams out of my head..I can't write in story form, but I might be able to write it in screenplay form..the format is simpler and doesn't have to be as fluffy or grammatically correct as story writing..new daydreams are popping up, too..it's weird..they just build up..one thing leads to another and sometimes I think it goes in the wrong direction, but it's weird when I try to change it..so the story writes itself in my head..yeah, it's weird, but I hope to put the stories in my head to some kinda positive use..

In class, we'll have to get into groups and I already know I don't want John Valera in my group..he's too good and I want him as competition! I need competition or I'm not gonna work as hard..I don't want another student-who-shall-not-be-named that is more of a late person than I..the teacher said not to miss classes and not get there late cuz on some days he will lock the door at 1 p.m...well, she missed 1-2 days so far and came in 15-45 min. late on the days she did show up..one of the students (probably more in reality) didn't come there to learn all this theory stuff (the teacher said that you have to pass the midterm about theory, concept, and format to even get to touch a video camera because he feels you shouldn't touch thousand-dollar equipment if you don't know about the film making part of it) he came to just use the camera..I wouldn't mind people like that in my group cuz I can find or suggest something for them to do and enjoy and will probably be great group members and work hard on their part(s)..

Today, we watched the director's commentary of "The Punisher" and we were booted out of the room by my old Java Script teacher because our class went over 5-10 min. and we didn't finish the movie..now I have to write a two page essay about what I learned and how I can use it when making a video..I wrote at the top of my page of notes (OMG! I took notes!!): Turn the bull crap meter to high and break the dial labeled "writing skills"..

Content isn't the problem..I'll probably have to cut down a lot..my problem is that I can't write..I REALLY can't write essays..so I'll probably get a C..

Vote for Who?

Vote for Kitty! lol

I watched the debate and I heard "Bush came through on top!" in my conservative town and "John Kerry pulled out on top!" online and from some many of my liberal friends..all through the darn thing I had THIS in my head and started to hum it, too!

I don't like either candidate..Saturday Night Live did an awesome job making fun of both sides well! Go SNL!!

I was talking to Kitty about it and she said, "Vote for me." and I said, "That would be great! I'll vote for M-E." she was like, "No, me." So I'm voting for her for president and so is her mom..Austin might..I'm gonna make a mock page asking all the undecided voters to vote her for president..I wanna see ifwe can't get her name in the newspaper..So everyone write in "Valerie Waksmunski"..

Well, I gotta go..TTY'allL