Grad School

Well I have to admit, I’m a little disappointed in Grad School. Well not disappointed but a little confused. Usually about this time I am calling my parents because I am so stressed out with school, papers, tests, and don’t know how I am going to get it all done. So far this year, I’ve had more free time than I know what to do with. Yet at the same time I stay busy, just not like I though it would be. School is really easy, it’s like a normal undergrad semester, only I have 2 classes. So really it is extremely manageable. I have a term paper and I have to teach a class about Stephen Spielberg. And that’s it really. I have two finals, but one is going to be a take home final. So really I only have one final, and it is not even cumulative. Again I’m not complaining, I’m just really confused. Don’t get me wrong, I love it this way, but I just have this really bad feeling that It is going to get really hard. But until then I like the way things are going. I work more, so that fills the extra time during my day. And I even volunteer every Friday at another museum. So I’m working, going to school and volunteering. And yet it’s all going fairly easy. I guess I could go so far as to say that perhaps I’m just good at what I do, but I’m not that conceited. Haha, I really think I was blessed with an easy semester, which under the circumstances has been nice.

Most of my time is truly spent watching movies. And I was thinking the other day that maybe I’m wasting precious hours of my time, and that I should go and read something instead. But honestly deep down I just love movies and indulging in something that makes me happy isn’t something I’m going to feel bad about. My brother likes motorcycles, my parents like NASCAR, I love movies. So, I will have to admit, that I try to motivate myself with my movies. I come home from work, walk the dog, fix something to eat, and then do my homework as fast as I can so that I can watch a movie before I go to bed. The only problem is that no matter what time I start the movie I will not turn it off to get to bed at a decent hour. I will watch it until it is over. Which can make for some late nights, but again I don’t feel bad about it. One day I hope to have a fabulous Movie collection which will be organized by directors. I’m working on Spielberg right now. I recently watched Empire of the Sun, which is a movie about an English boy who lives in China during WWII, get separated from his parents and is put into a concentration camp. It is an amazing movie, not well received at the time it went out, but defiantly a must see. Christian Bail stars as the little boy, and it is funny to see him so young, but he did a fabulous job, and received a few awards for his performance. I am trying to watch as many of his movies as possible before my lecture. I’ve seen most of his movies, but I need to refresh my mind, and of course catch up on some of his really early films. IMDB.com is the best place that I have found so far that gives good synopses of movies, directors, and actors. It also has a fabulous All Time list of movies.

I’m really excited because Spider-Man III comes out on Tuesday. I really hated the movie, but I need it for my future collection. Really, it was the worse of all the three, but there is hope because there are talks that Spider-Man IV is in pre-production. Hopefully it all works out. Even though I did not like it as well, I am still excited to buy it. Spider-Man is one of my favorite movies. I’m sucker for any Marvel comic book stories.

I bought Transformers last week. It is actually in a DVD case that transforms into a robot. Optimus Prime to be exact. I’m going to actually use it in my Spielberg presentation because he was the executive producer for the movie. Plus I think my classmates will get a kick out of the transforming case! For any of you out there that were planning on buying the DVD, I got mine at Target, and it was a few dollars more than the regular DVD, it is totally worth it! Plus it comes with a disk II with DVD extras.

If any of you out there want a movie recommendation just ask! I’ve really been doing my homework on this stuff. I watch about 5 movies a week, and sometime just in the weekend alone! But no worries mom and dad my grade as still fine!