| Sep. 11th, 2009 @ 05:25 pm craaazzzyyy |
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Feeling:  busy
ohhhh shit i need to find the time to update this thing... so much has happened and this entry is gonna be a monster!!!!!!!!!
well, damn.
my classes are all really great and i am excited and motivated for them. but holy shit, i am busy. i am taking 15 units, pretty much all of them are PRODUCTION which means they require lots of outside-of-class time and dedication. but i think it will be good experience. i have classes on tuesday morning, wednesday afternoon, thursday morning and friday all day. i work on saturday mornings, sunday and monday all day, and have a work meeting on thursday afternoon. and i have a radio show on wednesday morning (10-11 am, http://ksfsradio.org). it would be nice to have A LITTLE more free time, but i think i can manage somehow...
i was taking 18 units, but i dropped my geography of health class.... just felt really 'meh' about it. not worth the effort right now when i have so many more awesome things keeping me busy. the assigned novels are interesting, but i can read them on my own time. so now i need 15 more units of health education stuff for my minor, plus one more BECA class for my major. i might take something in health during winter session to make sure i can fit everything in, and GRADUATE this spring.
what i'm taking:
media performance II - we do video stuff in class, spend one week performing on camera, and then switch & work on crew the next week. we can perform anything we want. i did a news story for my first one. might do a comedy routine or poetry reading next. and we have to record audio stuff outside of class, and write critiques of ourselves. really straight-forward and laid-back, and fun people, after class i went to the campus pub with some of them. tipsy on a single glass of champagne, mmmm.
final cut pro editing - this is an independent study with jen vaughn, one of my favorites. i'll be doing editing and a couple of projects for the news tv show we produce on campus, and also getting a lot of practice time in the secret tiny editing lab in the basement. (the regular upstairs editing lab isn't even open normal hours yet, because there is no money to hire lab monitors or something like that?? but we'll have special access to it for the news editing. jen is a superhero for the dept, i'm glad she didn't get fired with all the other dozen or so lecturers).
history of tv documentary - mostly lecture but the main assignment is production and i'm getting really into it.. we will be writing our own documentary proposals and doing all of the pre-production work, and then some of them will be produced next semester. i'm planning mine about the modern hippies of haight street.
documentary of health & social justice - our class is producing 4 documentaries, in groups of 4-5 students each. the topics were given by local non-profit organizations to highlight their work and discuss issues that need improvement. one is about the recently opened "lotus bloom" center in oakland, which supports early childhood education and activities like music, arts, reading, child & parent workshops. one is about public housing in chinatown, the lack of affordable housing and little support from the city. one is about nystrom, a sad neighborhood in richmond with one of the highest violence rates in america, lots of chevron pollution and shitty schools.
and my documentary about the excelsior district here in SF, a neighborhood with a bad reputation, huge cultural diversity and several organizations working to improve the area's public safety, youth programs, local business, and projects to bring the community together. we want to help them redefine the excelsior. my group has already spent hours talking about the issues and our proposal, we all care a lot about it. our group is totally multi-cultural too - one white girl, one asian guy, one latina girl, one black/chinese guy, and one italian exchange student. kevin is the one i am getting to know the best so far, he is my new radio co-host (at least one of them, i'm inviting my roommates also). he lives in the heart of the excelsior so we meet at his house to work. it's not too far from campus.
oh god so much else to talk about
i visited my parents for the first time since moving back here. just went to concord for dinner and came back to the city the same night. but they were happy to see me. they let me pick the restaurant! we went to chili's, where i had ribs, and a couple of those little desserts in the shot-glasses. there's one that tastes EXACTLY like a fresh warm cinnamon roll in a cup. it's amazing!!!
i went to a really fun hotel concierge event, a free hop-on hop-off sightseeing tour with stops at japantown and the fillmore area/yoshi's. it was sponsored by the japantown / fillmore neighborhood associations which are trying to make the area more of a tourist destination. so they invited concierge staff over and gave us huge goody bags of samples and coupons and gifts, and platters of amazing hors d'oeuvres.. spicy cheesy things.. and fancy desserts.. chocolate strawberry mousse and blueberry parfait.. ohhh maaaan there were so many others, i wanted to try them all but just didn't have enough hands or enough time. meanwhile the servers were continuously filling our glasses with expensive champagne. and then there was a raffle and i won a pair of free tickets to any show at yoshi's. then the bus took us to beautiful twin peaks at sunset, it was absolutely gorgeous. forgot my camera :p OH YES, i have a digital camera now finally. it is kodak and pink. still need to figure out how to use it and upload stuff... it's supposed to be quite simple but i haven't tried yet :p
i met ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) neonstrawberi !!!!!!! she was visiting california with her family and we met up in the haight... actually we met on the SAME 71-bus on the way there! her family was very sweet and cassie was completely adorable. i told her she was cuter than a handful of buttons... which we decided is a wonderful thing to have, you don't even need a reason! we spent the afternoon exploring haight street. including the random goodness of goodwill (a duck wearing bunny ears!?) and a fantastic overflowing book shop, with massive piles of books even stacked on top of the shelves. we also visited my favorite craft store where we smiled at glittery stickers and books about making gourd instruments, and cassie bought me some bamboo knitting needles (hooray i have 3 sizes now! and i've made a promise to myself that i will do something wonderful with them.) we stopped at a smoke shop where cassie introduced me to tasty vanilla cloves. and we checked out amoeba right before meeting up with her family again, and taking photos! can't wait to see those, love!
i have photos to share from my recent trip to monterey and carmel. another free sightseeing tour! i'm taking advantage of all the concierge perks, haha. will post again soon :) |
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