Week 2 Check-In

Boy, this has been one long week. Even though we had MLK Day off, I still somehow managed to not get enough sleep. Despite it being a rather tough week as well, I managed to push through and still get a lot of work done. This past Monday I took my first minutes at our department meeting. Though I was late after having traffic problems when coming from downtown, I wrote down everyone who was there and what had been discussed before I arrived as well as what we briefly talked about while I was there. After class on Tuesday I really didn’t do too much aside from a little bit of reading for my leadership class. On Wednesday I spent an hour or so watching some of our films from the first round and viewed a couple more Thursday morning. I have enjoyed the films ten times more than reading the abstracts. I’m not a huge reader overall, but I am glad on Tuesday we decided which papers we will judge to have programmed. The ones we chose looked cool from the abstracts, so reading them hopefully won’t be too bad. For the films though, I have enjoyed seeing what film students from around the world are capable of. Some films have been much better than others of course, but even the contrast between the different filmmaker’s styles is interesting in itself. Aside from the films, on Monday at our meeting I will take minutes again and should be on time since this past Monday I had something going on that is not a weekly occurrence. We will discuss the dirty dozen at this meeting too since we ran out of time in class on Tuesday. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: this semester is going to be ridiculously tough. But I chose to have a hard schedule, so therefor I have no right to complain. Yes I am already tired and a bit overwhelmed sometimes by the seemingly never-ending work load, but I’m good at being productive when I am busy. Visions too seems like an awesome experience thus far, and I’m already learning a lot about the festival process. I’ve still got a lot to learn before the end of semester, and who knows where it’ll take me.