End-of-Quarter Blues

As Katie said in the post before, the musical has been put in some kind of strange state of limbo for the time being. It's not fully in limbo, because I think we're all working on our various pieces when we have the time (for example, I started to write another scene in the book...didn't get very far...), but we haven't had the opportunity to chat in a while and that's, well, not helpful. Writing a musical when the three creators live in three different states is REALLY hard, a lesson I think we're all learning far too well.



My life, however, has been consumed by senior essay presentation for the last month or so. It's a class I've been in all quarter, but it's really kicked up in insanity over the last month. At my university, all the departments have to have some kind of presentation requirement for the graduating seniors. For most, this presentation is called capstone and revolves around research and other fun things like that. For the English department, however, this presentation is called...well...senior essay presentations. We all have spent the last two quarters working on intensive revisions and re-writes of projects we started in other classes. In my case, my "essay" is my novel-in-progress (no, Katie, there are still no flying giraffes). And while doing all these revisions we also have to prepare a presentation...we have to pick out what parts we believe are most important. In the case of us creative writing majors, this presentation usually focuses a lot on the writing process. I know I mentioned this presentation in my last post, so I'll spare you from the rest of my stressing.


On the bright side, I present on Saturday (AHHHH), then I have to survive my Environment and Man final. And then I get to go on a trip to Appleton, WI (to see Wicked) and Chicago with two of my best friends. Next quarter should be about a million times better...I'm only going to be taking 12 credit hours. Maybe after I get past this quarter, the musical will get worked on more from my side of things.



Oh, and I'm seeing Spring Awakening (stage seats) on March 15 in Cleveland. I fully blame Katie and B.