I enjoyed it, for sure. Though we were cracking up through half of it at the sheer absurdity.




My thoughts:

- I really liked Jacob. Like way more than I did in the books. And dear god, I felt so pervy watching him keep taking his shirt off.
- Bella's still super annoying.
- Charlie! I love him so much. He needs more screen time.
- Mike was so awkward awesome. That whole theater sequence was hilarious.
- That ending. Dear god, we were dying laughing.
- JANE. Oh dear god, Dakota, you were awesome.
- LOVED Aro. You still got the Dear-God-this-man-can-kill-me vibe but he was so sweet and bubbly in an evil deadly way.
- Every time I looked at Caius, I was fighting back the urge to just start belting "I'll STEEEEEEEAAAAAALLLLLLL YOUUUUUUU, JOHANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!"
- Maybe by Movie 3, Jasper will have more then 2 lines! Guess I'll just have to wait for TLA to actually see Jackson do anything.


I'd rank it better than Twilight in terms of more stuff happens/more entertaining/not so lame.



And why can't I have a super hot best friend who's in love with me? :-(

I decided to be a nerd and make a Kanye interrupting shirt for New Moon tonight. But who should Kanye be interrupting?


Poll #1487514 NEW MOON SHIRT
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 23

Who should Kanye be interrupting?

I got my car back!!!!!!!


Only three things are irking me:

- Playing phone ring-around-the-rosy with corporate to get a copy of the work order/show what work was done/what the warranty is.
- They returned the car to me with less than 1/8 a tank of gas. Jerks.
- My Golden 50th Mickey Mouse antennae ball was jacked. :-(



Also that I never got an apology from the company. Like that "On behalf of this company, I apologize for the inconvenience we've put you though" etc etc.


But CAR!

And I just got home from school. Well, I just got out of the shower, which is the first thing I did upon getting home from school.

Today I was given the task of writing the script for our Final project from a short story I read today. They want a 1st draft by Wednesday. Wooo putting all my other schoolwork on hold.

The biggest problem is that I have to write it in the way that the directors want it. When we were planning it out today, I had a vastly different idea of how the story should be adapted and what its dynamics are than the two people who are directing it. I kept asking the basic questions: "Who are my characters and why are they doing what they're doing?" However, they were only thinking of "where can we shoot? When can we shoot? What equipment do we have?" Which are all very very important questions, but if they want a freaking script by Wednesday, they needed to tell me WHAT I'm writing.

So I got off work at 8, then sat down with Daniel to start hashing out story/characters/details. Daniel and I are a fantastic writing duo. We're both writers who specialize in character-driven narrative plots, unlike our other classmates who focus on experimental cinematography and what not. Daniel and I think alike when it comes to writing, so I was so happy that he's being my assistant writer (though the poor bloke got saddled with Producer for the film. Eep).

So by 11:45, we had characters who made sense and a good chunk of the plot. So now I get to write the rough draft, which inevitably on Wednesday, the directors aren't going to like. We had to change the dynamics of the story so it would work in modern times; the basic story is still there, but it was set in like 1800s rural France. Totally doesn't work in 2009 San Diego.

I still can't get into the head of one of the main characters; Daniel and I were trying and trying, and we've gotten farther than we were originally, but he's proving to be the most difficult of all to characterize.

Though we at least now have HUGE background paragraphs to explain why characters are doing something.


And schedule for the rest of the week:

Tomorrow:
Class 12:30-3:30
Edit 4-8 (or later)
Drive home
Finish script

Wednesday:
Class 12-3
meeting 4:30-6:30
Work on Disney film?
Work 9-2am

Thursday:
Class 12:30-3:30
Meet with Professor 5:30-6:30
TWILIGHT OMG.

Friday:
Pick up equipment
Do... stuff?

Saturday:
Do more stuff?
Edit 6-10 (& later)

Sunday:
More more stuff?
FanForce meeting 6pm (still need to find a location)

So over a month late, my Yuna necklace FINALLY showed up.


Though there's something wrong with it. Two things, actually.


All my Final Fantasy friends, see if you can spot what's wrong with Yuna's necklace:





The second problem I didn't find until I tried to put it on. There's no clasp in the chain, and it's too small to fit over my head. Will have to go buy a clasp and do surgery, I suppose.



But yay for it finally getting here?

(At work)
Rachel C: *Spazzing as usual*
Me: Dude, Rachel. Frankie says... Relax.
Rachel C: Who the hell is Frankie?
Me: It's from the 80s! It was a really popular slogan, and there was a song too.
Rachel C: That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.




Admiral Jello: what is up?
mianadude: Just got home from work
mianadude: should be in bed but my writing muse is demanding attention
Admiral Jello: which muse is that?
mianadude: My fanfic muse
Admiral Jello: MM
mianadude: I've nicknamed him Kyle
Admiral Jello: ...him?
mianadude: Yes.
mianadude: He's gay
Admiral Jello: yes but. muses are female. they're naiads.
mianadude: Well tough. I have a gay male muse
Admiral Jello: I am not sure you understand. This is like saying that you worship Lesbian Jesus.
Admiral Jello: which would be admittedly entertaining....

Today I got to attend a special guest lecture/Q& A from Jason Reitman, the director of Thank You For Smoking and Juno. He's doing a tour to promote his new film Up in the Air, which there was a free screening for UCSD students last night in La Jolla (stupid work. I couldn't go), so he stopped by tonight to talk with us as well.

He's a very nice, funny man. He talked a lot about how he got into the business and how hard it was for him since he's in his father's shadow 24/7 (his father is Ivan Reiter. Director of Ghostbusters, Dave, Kindergarten Cop, Twins, Stripes, 6 Days 7 Nights, Evolution, etc). He applauded all of us for actually sticking it out in school; he was an English major but is a college drop out.

He gave us a lot of good advice on directing and screenwriting. More than screenwriting, he gave us good story-writing advice. He was very honest, sincere, and even humble.

Thank you UCSD Art for doing something good for us for once. :-)

We're now at the beginning of hour 5 of 6 of JP's 6 hour lecture on our holiday. 

The horror.  The horror.