In A Late Hail Mary Pass...

...Korean's officially out, so are all hopes of Spanish. Art Hum! You're up!

Waiting...waiting...waiting...and with a surprising lack of change...more waiting...

So we got our Western Theatre papers back this morning...
Finally some hint at academic validation, my first real paper grade at Columbia...

W.B. handed it to me...lot's of comments...oo... Why did I leave that in?  I don't remember leaving that in. Not anachronistic, achronistic... ACHRONISTIC! damn auto correct. *le sigh* "Good Connection, but... *le sigh some more*  The TA is commenting a lot, W.B. isn't...why isn't he commenting? I...ugh...how is a Marx reference not obvious enough? How is the Locke reference not obvious enough? Everybody knows those theories. "Don't assume your reader knows anything."  But assume we do, eh? Ha. That wasn't that funny. Well...nah not that funny. Your citations are funny. Funny bad, not funny haha. Are citations ever funny haha?  Get to last page.

No grade.

Flip over. No grade. Class and Prof. long gone...
What's going on?
Where's my grade?

I...

Uh....what?


Dear God...
I was really tired. It was finished during an all-nighter, and every other sundry excuse ever used, by everyone, ever.

Was it that horrible? No, no-no. I mean he's not above just putting an F on a paper, right? Christ. Does he want me to rewrite? I'd love a rewrite.

*le sigh*

Emailed prof + TA. Waiting...patiently.

Oh, hey...look at that. This is my 100th post.

Worklist week of 10/7

1. Read/Annotate for Response: Ibn Hisham (d. 833), “Muhammad’s Ordinance for Medina.” Trans. Norman A. Stillman, 1979. The Jews of Arab Lands, 115-18.
   (3 pages)
2. Read/Annotate for Response: Document of Protection (dhimma) Trans. N. Stillman, pp. 255-258.
   (3 pages)
3. Read/Annotate for Response:  Text: Maimonides (d. 1204), “Epistle to the Jews of Yemen.”       Trans. Norman Stillman, pp. 233-46. 
   (13 pages)
4. Read/Annotate for Response: Texts: divorce documents.  Trans. I. Hollander, “Ibrā’ in Highland Yemen: Two Jewish Divorce Settlements,” Islamic Law & Society 2(1)(1995):1-23.
   (23 pages)
5. Read/Annotate for Response: Anthropology: Jewish “saints” Kosansky, Oren. Tourism, Charity, and Profit: the Movement of Money in Moroccan Jewish Pilgrimage,” Cultural Anthropology 17(3)(2002), 359-400.
   (41 pages)
6. Due by 10/6, 10:00 PM - Write: 2 page Double Space Response with annotations on the above week 4 reading assignments
7. 10/6 - Read/Ready for discussion: Jackson, "Professing Performance" 
8. 10/6 - Read/Annotate for Response: Worthen, "Disciplines of the Text/Sites of Performance"
9. 10/7 - Skim/Ready for discussion:The Book of Margery Kempe pdf
10. 10/9 - Read/Ready for discussion: The York Cycle: Fall of the Angels, Fall of Man, Building of the Ark, The Flood, Herod and Magi, Slaughter of the Innocents, Christ before Herod through Last Judgment  
11. 10/9 - Skim/Ready for discussion: Beckwith, from Signifying God
12. 10/9 - Skim/Ready for discussion: Schechner, from "Collective Reflexivity: Restoration of Behavior" 
13. 10/9 - Review: Medieval Theatre Handout Online  
14. 10/9 - Skim/Ready for discussion Julian of Norwich pdf
15. Due by 10/10, 10:00 PM - Write: 2 page Double Space Response with annotations on week 3 readings for late sub
16. Due: by 10/14, 5:00 PM -  Write: 1200 word discussion essay for English Conference, any topic relevant to class discussion. 
17. By 10/14 - 5 page research outline/proposal for Arabia Imagined. 
18. 10/20 - Read/Annotate for Editing Assignment: Shakespeare, Hamlet Q1 1603 ASSIGNMENT  Quarto and Folio versions of scene 2 

Important/get done asap!

Not completed/due date passed

Completed/Done

*updated* Gender is changeable, Sex is not...well how about that?

So tired...
How is this only week 4? I'm suppose to hit my stride around this time right?

Ok, work list for my own sanity:

1. 9/24 - Be off book for: August: Osage County Scene
2. 9/28 - ReRead/Annotate/Transcribe Notes: Judith Butler, Performative Acts and Gender Constitution, ¶'s 11-24
   (5 pgs)
3. 9/28 - ReRead/Annotate/Transcribe Notes: Aristophanes' Lysistrata
   (7 pages)
4. 9/28 - Read/Annotate: Text: al-Misri, (d. 1367) “Pilgrimage” (sharīʿa law book chapter)  Trans. N. Keller, 1994. Reliance of the Traveler, 297-370.
   (73 pgs)
5. 9/28 - Read/Annotate: Malcolm X (with Alex Hayley), The Autobiography of Malcolm X. Ch. 17
   (9 pgs)
6. 9/28 - Read/Annotate: Hammoudi, Abdellah. 2006. “Narrative of a pilgrimage.” Trans. P. Ghazaleh. A Season in Mecca. Chs. 5 & 6, pp. 94-141.
   (47 pgs)
7. Due 9/29, 10:00 PM - Write: 2 page Double Space Response with annotations on the above three reading assignments
8. Due 9/30 10:00 AM - Write: WESTERN THEATRE PAPER - 5-6 PAGES "Create a dialogue between Judith Butler's treatise on Performative Acts and Gender Constitution and Aristophanes' Lysistrata"
9. 9/30 - Read/Annotate: The Tale of Sir Launcelot and Guinevere, pp. 403-467
   (64 pgs)
10. 9/30 - Read/Annotate: The Death of Arthur, pp. 468-527
    (59 pgs)
11. 9/30 - Read/Annotate: Explanatory Notes, pp. 556-565
    (9 pgs)
12. 10/1 - Read/Annotate: Foley, "Medea's Divided Self"
    (24 pgs)
13. 10/1 - Read/Annotate: Case, "Classic Drag"
    (5 pages)
14. 10/2 - Read/Annotate: Testament of Cresseid, pp. 2-47
    (45 pgs)

Ok, maybe not so much sanity...but mental organization.
That's 141 pages to read/annotate by next Tommorow night folks...
Right.

Important/get done asap!

Not completed/due date passed

Completed/Done

http://www.gofundme.com/48ovzo

The Schedule: Redux/Recoil

Ok...NO SERIOUSLY...the schedule is final.

Greek is out.
Arabia imagined is in.

Here. Enjoy an apropos Degrassi gif.

 

Anyone selling the Rosetta Stone Spanish 1-2? Anyone?

Ken Jennings: "Go get em."

So I'm doing the College Test for Jeopardy tonight, so as a one off I tweeted Ken Jennings for some encouragement:

t-2 weeks and counting...

1. 4/4/12 - Stagecraft Quiz 4
   Covers: Lighting design paper work, Scene shop hand tools, Scene shop hand and portable power, tools, Scene shop stationary power tools, Scenic materials, Fasteners and adhesives
   Grade: A
2. 4/5/12 - Public Speaking Major Speech 2
   Persuasive speech
   6 min; Speech portfolio: Purpose/thesis development, audience Connections, Works cited, Formal outline, Note cards
   Grade: A
   
3. 4/9/12 - Connections Essay 1
   A)Choose a decade in American history and view any film, which, in your view, epitomizes or represents that decade.  In essay form, answer some or all of the following questions. How does this film define the decade? (Consider all aspects of “mise-en-scene” if you wish.)  OR B)View a film that addresses a historical event in America. Briefly research that event and compare and contrast the historical facts with the film’s interpretation. 
   2-3 pages, 12pt double-spaced
   Grade: 98/100
4. 4/9/12  - Connections Essay 2
   Write a synopsis (1-2 pages max) of an idea for a film that addresses a cultural or historical issue. In this paper, identify (a) the theme, (b) major characters, (c) setting, and (d) plot including the background, rising action, climax, falling action/denouement. Balance telling your story succinctly with including enough detail for me to understand your concept.
   Grade: 38/40
5. 4/9/12 - Connections Essay 2
   Self-reflection - Think about all your general education courses. Discuss how one in particular has prepared you for subsequent academic courses and/or for your future career. Identify specific knowledge, skills, and abilities you gained, which will insure your future success.
   1-2 pages max, 12pt , double-spaced
   Grade: 48/50
6. Connections Discussion Participation
   Grade: 10/10 
7. 4/10/12 - Irish History Paper 2
   Custom topic: Comparing and Contrasting the Famine Era Irish Traveling Accounts of Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont from Peter Gray's The Irish Famine
   5-7 pages (10 max, excluding works cited), 12pt, double-spaced
   Grade: B+
   
   
   
8. RTBP Marketing Blitz
   Laser cartridge busted...printing delayed!
9. 4/16/12 - Voice/Movement Play Review
   Two pages, double spaced
   
10. 4/17/12 - Reasons to be Pretty
    5-8 Rehearsal Assistance?
11. 4/18/12 - Reasons to be Pretty
    5-8 Rehearsal Assistance?
12. 4/19 - Public Speaking Group Symposium Presentation
    9 min part in 45 min speech
    supposedly conclusion...more to come
13. 4/19/12 - Reasons to be Pretty
    5-8 Rehearsal Assistance
14. 4/20/12 - District Student Activities Funding Meeting
    9AM, Ybor, District wants to cut all Extracurricular Performing/Visual Arts funding from Ybor Campus
15. 4/21/12 - RTBP Load-in
    
    
16. 4/22/12 - RTBP Lighting/Focusing
    Ahead of schedule!
17. 4/24/12 - RTBP Tech Rehearsal
    *Everything running very smoothly...just a couple of rough spots in memorization, but sound and staging running very well!*
18. 4/25/12  RTBP Tech Rehearsal
19. 4/25/12 - Jeopardy College Championship Online Test
    9PM EST
    
20. 4/26/12 - Irish History Final
    Take home final due
    3, 2-page responses to given topics, 12pt double-spaced
21. 4/26/12 - RTBP Final Dress Rehearsal
22. 4/27/12 - RTBP  Performance
    6:30 Crew Call
    
23. 4/28/12 - RTBP  Performance
    6:30 Crew Call
    
    
24. 4/29/12 - RTBP Performance/Strike
    1:30 Crew Call 
25. 4/30/12 - Stagecraft Quiz 5
    Covers: Curtains and stage drapes, two-dimensional scenery, flat construction, Hardware/joints/knots, Dimensional scenery: platforms and wagons, Scenery: Windows and doors, Scenery: Stairs
26. 4/30/12 - Stagecraft Paper
    1 - 2 page / 500 word (typed) paper discussing the Lighting and Scenic design for Betty's Summer Vacation.
27. 4/30/12  - Mod European History Final
    Take home essay based on info Covering Chaps 19:Empire Modernity and the Road to War-24:The New Globalism
    Assigned or due on the 30th?
28. 5/4/12 - Commencement
    2PM, 1:00 check-in
    
    
29. 5/7/12 - Stagecraft Final
    Semester Cumulative
30.  5/7/12 - Voice and Movement Final
    Memorized Performance final - "Comings and Goings" Excerpts
31. 5/8/12 - Honors EOY Social!
    Western Mystery Dinner Theater

list update...fast and furious

1. 4/3/12 - Reasons to be Pretty?
   5-8 Run rehearsal in Directors Absence
2. 4/3/12 - Public Speaking Field Trip
   Lara Logan talk at USF
3. 4/4/12 - Stagecraft Quiz 4
   Covers: Lighting design paper work, Scene shop hand tools, Scene shop hand and portable power, tools, Scene shop stationary power tools, Scenic materials, Fasteners and adhesives
   Grade: A
4. 4/4/12 - Reasons to be Pretty
   5-8 Run rehearsal in Directors Absence
5. 4/5/12 - Public Speaking Major Speech 2
   Persuasive speech
   6 min; Speech portfolio: Purpose/thesis development, audience Connections, Works cited, Formal outline, Note cards
   Grade: A 
6. 4/5/12 - Reasons to be Pretty
   5-8 Run rehearsal in Directors Absence
7. 4/5/12 - PTK Pinnacle Scholarship Essay
   2 winners receive PTK Membership fee paid in full
   500 words
8. 4/6/12 - Straz Center Phone Interview
   7PM, for PT House Management position :)
   
   
9. 4/9/12 - Connections Essay 1
   A)Choose a decade in American history and view any film, which, in your view, epitomizes or represents that decade.  In essay form, answer some or all of the following questions. How does this film define the decade? (Consider all aspects of “mise-en-scene” if you wish.)  OR B)View a film that addresses a historical event in America. Briefly research that event and compare and contrast the historical facts with the film’s interpretation. 
   2-3 pages, 12pt double-spaced
   Grade: 98/100
10. 4/9/12 - Connections Essay 2
    Self-reflection - Think about all your general education courses. Discuss how one in particular has prepared you for subsequent academic courses and/or for your future career. Identify specific knowledge, skills, and abilities you gained, which will insure your future success.
    1-2 pages max, 12pt , double-spaced
11.  4/9/12 - Screenwriting Pitch
    Write a synopsis (1-2 pages max) of an idea for a film that addresses a cultural or historical issue. In this paper, identify (a) the theme, (b) major characters, (c) setting, and (d) plot including the background, rising action, climax, falling action/denouement. Balance telling your story succinctly with including enough detail for me to understand your concept.
12. 4/10/12 - Irish History Paper 2
    Custom topic: Comparing and Contrasting the Famine Era Irish Traveling Accounts of Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont from Peter Gray's The Irish Famine
    5-7 pages (10 max, excluding works cited), 12pt, double-spaced
13. 4/10/12 - Reasons to be Pretty
    5-8 Run rehearsal in Directors Absence
14. 4/11/12 - Reasons to be Pretty
    5-8 Run rehearsal in Directors Absence
15. 4/12/12 - Reasons to be Pretty
    5-8 Run rehearsal in Directors Absence
16. 4/13/12 - Student Excellence Awards7pm, Formal Dinner and Awards Presentation from Campus President
    
    
    
17. RTBP Marketing Blitz 
18. 4/16/12 - Voice/Movement Play Review
    Two pages, double spaced
    
19. 4/17/12 - Reasons to be Pretty
    5-8 Rehearsal Assistance?
20. 4/18/12 - Reasons to be Pretty
    5-8 Rehearsal Assistance?
21. 4/19 - Public Speaking Group Symposium Presentation
    9 min part in 45 min speech
    supposedly conclusion...more to come
22. 4/19/12 - Reasons to be Pretty
    5-8 Rehearsal Assistance
23. 4/20/12 - District Student Activities Funding Meeting
    9AM, Ybor, District wants to cut all Extracurricular Performing/Visual Arts funding from Ybor Campus
24. 4/21/12 - RTBP Load-in
    
    
25. 4/22/12 - RTBP Lighting/Focusing
26. 4/24/12 - RTBP Tech Rehearsal
27. 4/25/12  RTBP Tech Rehearsal
    
28. 4/26/12 - Irish History Final
    Take home final due
    3, 2-page responses to given topics, 12pt double-spaced
29. 4/26/12 - RTBP Final Dress Rehearsal
30. 4/27/12 - RTBP  Performance
    6:30 Crew Call
    
31. 4/28/12 - RTBP  Performance
    6:30 Crew Call
    
    
32. 4/29/12 - RTBP Performance/Strike
    1:30 Crew Call 
33. 4/30/12 - Stagecraft Quiz 5
    Covers: Curtains and stage drapes, two-dimensional scenery, flat construction, Hardware/joints/knots, Dimensional scenery: platforms and wagons, Scenery: Windows and doors, Scenery: Stairs
34. 4/30/12 - Stagecraft Paper
    1 - 2 page / 500 word (typed) paper discussing the Lighting and Scenic design for Betty's Summer Vacation.
35. 4/30/12  - Mod European History Final
    Take home essay based on info Covering Chaps 19:Empire Modernity and the Road to War-24:The New Globalism
    Assigned or due on the 30th?
36. 5/2/12 - Stagecraft Final
    Semester Cumulative
37. 5/4/12 - Commencement
    2PM, 1:00 check-in
    
    
38. 5/7/12 - Voice and Movement Final
    Memorized Performance final - "Comings and Goings" Excerpts
39. 5/8/12 - Honors EOY Social!Western Mystery Dinner Theater!

Countdown to Finals Pt.1

Yep it's that time again. Time to start parsing finals work lists.  Seems crazy, I know, but there is only 5 weeks left and so much to do so I need to organize and prioritize.  Hmm, I quite like that.  Here's a picture of Benedict Cumberbatch:

I quite like him too...

Anyway. List with due dates, Blue=Big Deal:

1. 4/3/12 - Reasons to be Pretty?
   5-8 Run rehearsal in Directors Absence
2. 4/3/12 - Public Speaking Field Trip
   Lara Logan talk at USF
3. 4/4/12 - Stagecraft Quiz 4
   Covers: Lighting design paper work, Scene shop hand tools, Scene shop hand and portable power, tools, Scene shop stationary power tools, Scenic materials, Fasteners and adhesives
4. 4/4/12 - Reasons to be Pretty
   5-8 Run rehearsal in Directors Absence
5. 4/5/12 - Public Speaking Major Speech 2
   Persuasive speech
   6 min; Speech portfolio: Purpose/thesis development, audience Connections, Works cited, Formal outline, Note cards
6. 4/5/12 - Reasons to be Pretty
   5-8 Run rehearsal in Directors Absence
7. 4/5/12 - PTK Pinnacle Scholarship Essay
   2 winners receive PTK Membership fee paid in full
   500 words
8. 4/6/12 - Straz Center Phone Interview
   7PM, for PT House Management position :)
   
   
9. 4/9/12 - Connections Essay 1
   A)Choose a decade in American history and view any film, which, in your view, epitomizes or represents that decade.  In essay form, answer some or all of the following questions. How does this film define the decade? (Consider all aspects of “mise-en-scene” if you wish.)  OR B)View a film that addresses a historical event in America. Briefly research that event and compare and contrast the historical facts with the film’s interpretation. 
   2-3 pages, 12pt double-spaced
10. 4/9/12 - Connections Essay 2
    Self-reflection - Think about all your general education courses. Discuss how one in particular has prepared you for subsequent academic courses and/or for your future career. Identify specific knowledge, skills, and abilities you gained, which will insure your future success.
    1-2 pages max, 12pt , double-spaced
11.  4/9/12 - Connections Movie 
    Produce a 1-3 minute film - Produce a documentary or mock-umentary (think Best in Show or Spinal Tap) addressing any aspect of life today. This may be done simply on a camera phone or may be done using a camcorder and editing software if you are so inclined. It is certainly OK to improvise with your phone. In the end, it should “say something.” Think about what you wish to shine a light on.  It may be a serious topic or be a humorous slant on some aspect of pop culture.  Have fun with this, but spend some time on it.  It is easy to spot the haphazard attempts.
    3 min. running time max.
12. 4/10/12 - Irish History Paper 2
    Custom topic: Comparing and Contrasting the Famine Era Irish Traveling Accounts of Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont from Peter Gray's The Irish Famine
    5-7 pages (10 max, excluding works cited), 12pt, double-spaced
13. 4/10/12 - Reasons to be Pretty
    5-8 Run rehearsal in Directors Absence
14. 4/11/12 - Reasons to be Pretty
    5-8 Run rehearsal in Directors Absence
15. 4/12/12 - Reasons to be Pretty
    5-8 Run rehearsal in Directors Absence
16. 4/13/12 - Student Excellence Awards7pm, Formal Dinner and Awards Presentation from Campus President
    
    
    
17. 4/17/12 - Reasons to be Pretty
    5-8 Rehearsal Assistance
18. 4/18/12 - Reasons to be Pretty
    5-8 Rehearsal Assistance
19. 4/19 or 24th or 26th/12  - Public Speaking Group Symposium Presentation
    9 min part in 45 min speech
20. 4/19/12 - Reasons to be Pretty
    5-8 Rehearsal Assistance
21. 4/20/12 - District Student Activities Funding Meeting
    9AM, Ybor, District wants to cut all Extracurricular Performing/Visual Arts funding from Ybor Campus
22. 4/21/12 - RTBP Load-in
    
    
23. 4/22/12 - RTBP Lighting/Focusing
24. 4/24/12 - RTBP Tech Rehearsal
25. 4/25/12  RTBP Tech Rehearsal
    
26. 4/26/12 - Irish History Final
    Take home final due
    3, 2-page responses to given topics, 12pt double-spaced
27. 4/26/12 - RTBP Final Dress Rehearsal
28. 4/27/12 - RTBP  Performance6:30 Crew Call
    
29. 4/28/12 - RTBP  Performance6:30 Crew Call
    
    
30. 4/29/12 - RTBP Performance/Strike1:30 Crew Call 
31. 4/30/12 - Stagecraft Quiz 5
    Covers: Curtains and stage drapes, two-dimensional scenery, flat construction, Hardware/joints/knots, Dimensional scenery: platforms and wagons, Scenery: Windows and doors, Scenery: Stairs
32. 4/30/12  - Mod European History Final
    Take home essay based on info Covering Chaps 19:Empire Modernity and the Road to War-24:The New Globalism
    Assigned or due on the 30th?
33. 5/4/12 - Commencement
    2PM, 1:00 check-in
    
    
34. 5/7/12 - Stagecraft Final
    Semester Cumulative
35. ??/??/?? - Voice and Movement Final
    Memorized Performance final - "Comings and Goings" Excerpts

Surprise, Surprise...

Spring semester scheduling is done.  It's not as bad as I was expecting, but here's to nothing getting canceled.  I need everything I registered for, though I wish I had more acting curricula. 
It's so weird to plan the endgame of something that's been in the works for five years.  I don't know if that's because I feel I've finally found a balance between a social and an academic life for the first time in my life, or because I'm completing something and that's kind of a big deal for me, or if it's because there's no good reason I should be in this position, given my academic past.

Maybe....it's a little of all three.

Brittany's already been accepted to University of Kansas.  It's going to be sad to watch her leave the best friend space. She's been with me the longest, since before Honors, since Torregiante was drilling us on Pavlov and Freud and the imaginary audience theory in General Psychology.

So the schedule for Spring '12, my final semester is as follows:
- Honors Western World: Modern Europe
- Honors Public Speaking
- Honors Selected Topics in History: Irish History and Reveloutions
- Stagecraft
- Script Analysis
- Capstone Connections: Cultural Connections through Film

Classes this semester have been shaky.  Marine Bio is extremely confusing because the professor is extremely confusing, skipping around from topic to topic with no real syllabus.  Early American History is going well.  First papers of the term were due Tuesday. It was finished Tuesday morning at about 1AM. The assignment was to select a previously assigned primary source and analyze it. I wrote on Hakluyt the Younger's Discourse on Western Planting:

Click to Read

It's not my best paper ever, but it's not bad, well cited I thought.  We'll see how grading goes on it; I'll report on that when I get it back.  Performance Workshop is going great; the entire group has meshed really well for the most part.  Our play, Suzan Lori-Parks' 365 Days/365 Plays opens November 12th on the HCC Ybor Mainstage.  I'm supposed to be off book by Thursday..."or parts will be cut."  I'm not sure if that's normal or achievable, since the script order was just finalized last Thursday.  And then, there is Intro to Dance, that sweet little class I could  care less about.  It's kind of grown on me.  My term paper's is on Korean traditional court dances or Jeongjae.  It's a topic I selected my self, because of my interest in Korean culture, so I'm quite happy I get to explore a part of it academically.  

I thinks that's about it, with the exceptions of extracurriculars, but admittedly they need their own post to update them all. Which I'll do sometime this week. So with that, I close.  Have a good evening everyone.