Bravo!

So here I am, backstage during the second performance of Drama IV's final production "Amateurs" (a comedy by Paul Griffin). My character (who also happens to be a critic), for all intents and purposes, dies at the end of Act I. It is Act 2, and I'm bored.

Anyway, I figured I'd update anyone who probably isn't reading my blog yet as to what is going on with the Spoiler-Free project. Today was the last day that seniors had to attend class, so ISP technically starts on Monday.

However!

I am very very incomplete. You see, in order to begin my project, I technically need to finish all of the course work in each of my classes. I have not done this (for a variety of reasons, none of which are particularly valid). Here is a list of the work I need to finish before I am 'complete'.

• English: I must write a brief, one-page essay discussing my reactions to the Civil War poetry of Emily Dickinson.
• Calculus: I need to take the final. Ha!
• Psychology: I need to do my entire final project, a 30-45 minute audio recording of an in depth self-analysis.
• Freedom: Mr. Keating wants a brief, three to four page essay. The topics could vary, but I've decided to do film critiques of the two films with which we finished the year: Eat Drink Man Woman and Working Girl. Both of these will probably be posted by about Sunday-ish, so I guess my project begins then?
• French: Not only do I need to take the last test of the year, but I need to learn everything on it and hand in every homework assignment on it. The test is on about a quarter of Jean Paul Sartre's Les Jeux Sont Faits, of which I've read very little and on which I've done none of the assignments. This is a direct quote from Mme. Castaldo. "Midori, you owe Assignment 2. Jordan, you owe Assignment 3. Scott! My gosh! You haven't handed in anything!"
  

I'm basically trapped in school cinema-less until I complete all this work. Boo hoo.

In terms of the actual project, when it gets going, plans have changed a bit. For one thing, I am not only doing the project for three weeks of the ISP period now, but for the remaining two as well. This is because, originally, I had planned two weeks during which I would take Improvisational Comedy classes with my good friend Ricky Zacharias. Turns out, the theater where we wanted to take these classes (the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater) does not offer the 'Intensive' course that we had wanted to take during the ISP period. Oh well.

For another thing, with the extra two weeks, my viewing schedule has obviously changed as well. I also took a look-see down the list with a couple of people, and we communally decided that I'd probably be better off changing it a bit. I'm not going to post a formal schedule because I think that's ridiculous. I am however going to post a rough schedule at the beginning of each week for films that I will be watching that week.

So, without further ado, a brief list of films that I'll be watching this week:

• Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid
• Casablanca
• Day The Earth Stood Still, The
• Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (both the original and the remake in one day)
• Modern Times
• Network
• Pscyho
• Singin' In The Rain

I'll judge the time and probably throw one or two extras on there, not to mention that I'll probably watch some on my own time at night.

Anyway, that's all for now. I have to go prepare for bows.