Wow, it's been a long time since I wrote anything in here! I guess I ought to bring you up to date quickly with my life....I spent New Year's Day with various family in the town where my mom grew up, and that was a lot of fun. I spent my last few days at home with my mom, basically, but I was proud of her...she didn't cry when I left! :-) I spent ALL day on Tuesday getting back here on the plane, thanks to delays and bad weather, and then my luggage didn't show up until the day after that! But I'm finally back and settled, and I actually just finished packing up all my Christmas stuff today and getting my room back in order.
I've been soooo busy since I've been back...it's really like I never left. I've got assignments and essays to be working on, and we've had two rehearsals for Little Shop already. I am really just having a ball with that! The people are a blast, and what could beat singing and dancing for six hours at a time?? :-) I love the director, and I knew the choreographer before, as well as the stage manager, and they're both a lot of fun too. All in all, I know it's going to be such a great time. But it's also going to keep me VERY busy...I just hung my Anthony calendar up on the wall, and it's filled with rehearsal dates for the next three months.
I read Anne Rice's "The Witching Hour" and "Lasher" over the break, and I was amazed all over again at how she can come up with totally fantastic stories, and yet somehow make them believable. I'm almost disappointed that there really is no Talamasca! :-) This was really the first time I'd read anything outside the Vampire Chronicles (aside from The Mummy), but I'm tempted to say that I enjoy the Mayfair Witches *almost* as much as the vampires. Speaking of the Chronicles, I haven't decided whether or not I want to read Armand's story yet. I have very mixed feelings about the character, and the fact that he was played by Antonio Banderas in the movie really did nothing to help that. :-) But I would like to read Pandora.
I had my first radio journalism class this past week, and I'm not too sure what I think about it. I mean, radio journalism has never interested me in the slightest...even less than TV, which is still far behind print for what I'd like to do. But I think this course might be okay...basically, it seems like you can write it a lot more like a print story...not exactly like one, of course, but a lot more like one than you could in TV. Both forms of broadcast seem like a little more shallow form of journalism to me though. With TV, I never got to tell a story exactly the way I wanted to. I guess we'll see if radio is any different.
Anyway, I should, actually, be working on my radio assignment as I type this, since I spent most of my day already cleaning and doing odd jobs around the house I'd been meaning to do. Which all needed to be done of course, but not as much as my assignment needs to be done. :-)