Stress, Crushes and A White Christmas

So here goes my therapeutic post!

I've been on my toes for the last 4 days. Finally the week comes to an end - except my dance class in a couple of hours - and my study group meeting tomorrow. But thankfully no more deadlines for another 3 days!

I don't like being stressed - I don't react positively to it. I'm not used to being stressed - but somehow since I came here it's been tough on and off - maybe because the stakes are high - or maybe I'm making them high! It was funny though. I sort of liked it even when I didn't like it. I reminded myself that I have chosen to take 18 credits plus the extra curricular activities [at one point of time this term used to imply something completely different :( ] for this term. And I know I will survive through it - I just don't know how!

The good news is my production class - which also happens to be the scariest. Its like I'm standing at the edge of a swimming pool with my professor all ready to push me in (for the uninitiated, I can't swim) - and so I'm really scared, but I want to learn this and get over my fear. So what makes me feel great is knowing that once I'm in the water, I'll struggle, I'll swallow some water, I'll feel like I'm drowning, I'll curse my professor and I will be swimming in no time! That is, by the end of this term, I will know how to make a film with a professional film camera!

Spanish is going well - though it's more time consuming than I had imagined. But it's good fun!

Screenwriting is much lighter than last term - so doesn't require a lot of time and effort - which is great!

Lighting is easy - much like lighting for still photography - though the class is interesting, I usually yawn through it...

Story and Structure is fun - the only lecture style class I have - in a real American theatre style lecture hall - I think I enjoy sitting in that room more than I enjoy the class..

Then there is a volunteer course - Introduction to International Relations - aahh..sounds so good! And the professor is soooooooooo cute - lets call him SM! I first saw him in a Model UN club meeting on campus. So anyways, I'm not taking this course, my roomie is! I marketed this course to him and he happily took it. The deal was that I will help as much as is required, since I am a pro at it (that's what I like people who don't know anything about political science to think)!

So I was given a chapter to read and summarize. I wrote it. I didn't say anything but I was curious about SM's remarks. I did the second chapter today - still unaware of what he thought about my earlier summary. Then it happened! My roomie got the paper back! And SM wrote "good" twice on that one piece of paper! I was so thrilled! Firstly for getting a "good" on something I wrote regarding political science - that makes me feel very good - I love the subject but don't know where I really stand! And secondly, for getting SM to read my writing without really knowing those are my words he's reading - its just a weird mysterious perverted sort of a pleasure that I get from it!

Seems like someone's getting a crush on a professor!

Enough about grad school crushes! Lol! I know! I know! But I disagree with you! I think crushes are so much fun - my 5 years of adolescence would have been so so boring if it wasn't for those delicious young boys - and who says I should stop crushing on delicious men (I'm not using the word young here, because the men I'm talking about are not that)? My word selection may be somewhat obscene but my best adjectives come from the food world - actually I think "delicious" is a good word - it will easily slip through all obscene word filters and yet describe my emotions effectively!

So that's about it - I have too much data and I'm running out of memory - don't even get enough time to charge my batteries - that is why I have two special guests coming in to visit me over Christmas! Yes, you both! My only loyal readership! Come quickly - the snow has started again! It's going to be a white Christmas!

Hasta pronto, senors and senoritas ;)