Finals

So I have 4 days in a row where I get out at noon. Unfortunately, I have 6 sets of finals to grade... and only two are scantron. Right now I envy the math teachers.

Sigh.

So I finally started the Intermediate Screenwriting Class at UCI. I'm the only one who didn't take intro with the prof. I feel a bit out of place, but the vibe I'm getting is so much better than the prof I took Intermediate from. He seems much more the writer, and less the cinematic "I'm in the Biz so get out of my way!" type.

I left last Thursday really mad... but mad in a productive way. I was mad that I'd spent an entire summer coming up with an outline for a movie that really lacked where the characters had no motivation and therefore no real character arc. Why did I get an A on this project in the other class?!?! That's why I'm mad. So I'm changing the characters careers around and the main romantic interest from cuddly David the architect (No, no correlation to those who know what I'm talking about) to a more Sawyerish bar owner, similar to the character Rex, in my other saga... that is also not quite finished. hehehe

I also dropped Juan, the sexy latino veterinarian. I told Liz he had now been returned to the ethereal. Poor guy. He was pretty cute... though a scumbag at heart.

And Ben, Ella's brother farmer/cowboy is now going to be an FBI agent... who keeps turning into a Sean Astin 24 looking character in my head.

Anyway, I really hope the new outline will be considered much improved by the class. Otherwise, Omouse might just stick with novels.

New Year

Well... It's now the big 2006. Spent an exciting New Year's Eve at home with Liz watching a marathon session of Roswell, Season II.

At nine we headed out to the bookstore, only to find it closed, so we headed over to Mimi's for Spinach Artichoke Dip and Banana Foster Mud Pie. At 10, we headed back to Marina Pacifica and watched Narnia, which I thought was pretty good and faithful to the book as I remembered. Liz thought it was just okay, but she was never a fan of the books as I was.

Got home at about 1ish and then talked to Dave for a bit while Liz drank some port, and I found my still shrink wrapped version of the Narnia Chronicles... that I got with bonus points from Rogers's Scholastic Book sales.

Exciting huh?

Oh, and I practiced baking green and blue cookies, so that on Weds, I can make all these cool cardinal and gold colored U's and S's and C's. That's when the real par-tay is.

Tomorrow we're heading off to Downtown Disney for my dad's birthday. 56. Poor old man.