Their shiny, bright standards are waving.
Wow, a lot since the last post, not the least of which was the trip to Florida for the Vandy/Gators game two weekends ago. The 15 hour overnight dive each way was hard. I don’t sleep well on buses, and I’d hardly slept at all the week previous. I didn’t sleep much Friday night either because we had to get up at 5:30 on Saturday morning. It was all worth it though to spend Friday in the Magic Kingdom. We saw the whole thing and rode pretty much all of the rides. There were a lot of people there, somewhat surprisingly, but none of the lines were very long (I think the longest was 20 min.). That night we ate dinner at Planet Hollywood in Downtown Disney. They had one of the original suits from the movie Tron hanging on the wall, which was awesome. If you haven’t seen that movie, then you need to. Then we stopped by the Ghirardelli store and got some of the most delicious chocolate ice cream ever. The game on Saturday was extremely disappointing. I was, in fact, embarrassed to be associated with Vanderbilt. Our team was just awful. Anyway, I spent the last week recovering from that trip and the previous week.
This past weekend I saw the Vanderbilt Theater production of The Tempest. I’ve been working on the costumes for it for the past month. It was great to finally see them finished and in use. The production was great (aside from the amazing costumes). A few people from my theater class were in it, including the writer for my group for the play that is our theater final. Unfortunately, I have to write a paper on the production for Friday.
I also have a revision for my second Faulkner paper due Thursday. I was supposed to have gotten my professor’s edits to the first draft last Thursday, but I accidentally slept through class (the first one of the semester!). So I’m going to get the paper tomorrow instead. This means that I have two days to edit it, rather than seven. I think this paper is going to need a lot of revising, too. Also, I have to sign up for classes by Friday. I have no idea what I want to take, and I still don’t have the adviser code that allows me to sign up. I’ll get it pulled together somehow.
Meanwhilst, I have poems to edit before a meeting with my poetry professor tomorrow to discuss how I’m doing in the class so far. I’m somewhat nervous because we literally only get one grade in the class; the final one on a portfolio of eight of our poems. I have to make sure all of my poems are flawless before I submit them; I really need a 3.5 in my English classes.
The Tron suit:
