Aestas Adventat

Blogging is light because of lack of time and sleep. Papers and projects are coming due, and life is hectic as expected. A few things:

At some point in the semester I made a grocery list of booze to buy on my next run to the liquor store in the back of my Latin notebook. So everytime I start to flip through it to find my place, I see a list of various alcoholic beverages. That doesn't help to dissuade my new-found urge to drink myself into a stupor everytime I sit down to do my homework.

Speaking of drinking, I failed in my self-imposed duty to post everytime I got drunk. After this semester's date party several days ago, I was completely trashed, but nary a word was typed. They say that betraying yourself is the worst betrayal of all, and I'm starting to agree. I felt horrible the next day. Or was that the hangover?

I should be getting acquainted with hangovers over the summer. I'll be working in Hillsdale like last summer, but unlike last summer I'll also be living here, and I'll be sharing a house with a few guys who aren't against tipping back the bottle every now and then. Add this to friends back home with whom I want to hang out, and a possible (probable) visit to KC, and the summer is shaping up to be pretty damn sweet.

Giving a group of college kids a Canon XL1 and a semester to make a ten-minute movie is bound to have fascinating results. Maybe the technical skill won't be there, but the youthfulness and willingness to try new things would make one imagine that the movie would at least be interesting. But you also have to allow for the possibility that they wouldn't actually get anything done due to apathy, incompetence, and plain old time constraints. That being said, look for the first offering from Last Minute Films Limited (LMF Ltd.) some time in the near future. Hopefully...

Of course, that same apathy and incompetence would probably be found in other aspects of the students' work. Which is why I must stop here. I have a paper due two days ago that I need to finish.