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

Ermergherd Blergh!

Coming to terms with going back to work.
I'm having a bit of a hard time being OK with the fact that, after 6 years of sleep deprivation, ungodly commutes, and the hardest academic challenges I've faced in my life up to this point, I'm not moving on right now. I'm stuck, in fact, to maximize my savings during my deferment, I'm most likely headed back to the same temp jobs I had before I decided to go to college. That my friends is depressing, especially when status updates and tweets tell me how excited everyone is to be moving on. I mean to say I don't begrudge anyone that, goodness no, but I feel like I'm the little kid next door in one of those after school specials, somberly looking on as my best friend drives away to their new home.

Actually, that is sort of literally what is happening in at least one respect.  I am losing probably my closest friend. In a little more than a week and I'm doing what I always do when I'm about to lose someone important. The conversations become shorter, fluffier...the friendship, through distancing, wanes and when she leaves its not all that hard. I have a good idea  she'll read this, but I don't think she's ever seen me in my systematic withdrawal.  Fuck. This stops now. I'm gonna see if she wants to do Korean one last time before she leaves.  Damn I will miss her.

I have my list (which I've ignored since graduation, to be honest) and I'm trying to stay focused on getting things done on that list, and possibly expanding it. A huge miss-communication about deposits on the part of the apartments we were supposed to be moving into, has left my roommate and I shafted on $125 and staying with family for the next month.  The bright side to this is that I think it will give me time to get some more work done on the memoir/biography I've been working on with my grandmother.  There's also been talk of traveling with her up to PA to see my brother this month. That's would be an immensely welcome change of scenery, to be honest.

• Volunteering for the Obama Campaign/Elections
• Get a job/Save money
• Develop lifestyle change that involves regular workouts
• Finish getting source material (interview/documentation), start first draft of Sands...
• Do some acting work
• Read a few good books and document them starting with:
   and 

Having a plan...or at least a general idea.
About the immediate future. I'm really not sure what to do, no option is glaringly better than the others. 
Things to keep in mind:

• The Beineke Scholarship
• Critical Language Scholarship
• Christianson Work Abroad Grant 
• Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals
• DAAD - Undergrad Scholarship
• National Geographic Glimpse Correspondents Program 

 

This could be a problem... 

Those temp jobs that feel like selling out and returning to a miserable past life...suddenly don't look so bad.  Time to get to work.

Might have a paying gig in Atlanta next week, for a major cable show...

 

Well...crap.

There goes 30k out the window.  Not to be crass but, shit.

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!

Work list Update 1... ♫Let's / get down / to busi / ness...♫

    Made it through the week.  That's a good thing. People on the CC boards who have called in are saying they've called the C:GS office and have been told that depending on when everything was submitted, applicant's may get acceptance notices through May 1st. I don't know if I can survive that sort of anxiety. Especially, since NYU and Barnard my be out of the picture because of lack of application money and the inability to navigate the non-trad independent unfriendly CSS Financial Aid Profile to gain a waiver.

    The stagecraft quiz was a bomb, there just wasn't enough time to study as well as I want to. grr... It'll prob be a low B or High C *ugh* I left class and campus crying, utterly disgusted that I know I can do better. The speech went well, supposedly I went over...I don't even want to guess how much, I didn't bother to ask this time.  All semester, my speeches have run long.  There is a competition on environmental speeches that prof is offering 10pt extra credit for participating in. *looks meekly at Gulf Hypoxia speech from last semester* hmmm...

    I also didn't get my entry in for the pinnacle scholarship for PTK.  *sigh* It sucks, and there really is just no other word for it, that I qualify for things like these "honor societies" and because I can't pay exorbitant membership fees I don't get the honor.  I'd be willing to bet I'm not the only one. Same thing is sort of happening with NSCS.  On one side, I suppose you could argue that it's all redundant accolades, who cares it's too late to really participate in anything with either org.  My answer to that is, well I've qualified for both for numerous semesters and every semester the price of the accolade my hard work has earned, seems to go up.

List with due dates, Blue=Big Deal, Green=Done, Strike=Didn't get done:

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

  The sub-title of this blog was, for a while, "following logic instead of rules."  It's a standard that generally holds firm and usually is in line with how things are done in work settings, academic settings, socials interactions and the like.  I don't subscribe to the notion that what's good for the goose is good for the gander, neither do I adhere to any sort of one size fits all bureaucratic notions.  I feel while many processes can be streamlined and automated, other, more serious endeavors, such as issues with schools must be handled case by case. Just saying...