Bollocks. I’ve broken my headphones again.

I was in Sharples (Swarthmore’s dining hall), and walking up to bus my try. The curlicue cord, dangling from my pocket, got caught on a chair back as I was walking by, and pulled my up short. Everything looked fine, but when I tried to listen through them, nothing came through. Once I got home, I opened up the plug and found that while the ground was still attached, both the left and right channel wires had pulled off of their contact points. Well, now that I know how to solder, I can fix it on my own. I just need to get hold of a soldering iron again.

I preregistered for classes today–sort of, at least. My schedule for next semester was going to be Acting II Monday afternoon, Latin seminar (Aeneid) Wednesday afternoon, and Directing I Friday afternoon (plus a likely fifth course–maybe intro to Comp. Sci. or intermediate Greek). For a while, the Latin seminar was going to be moved to Monday, but after surveying students, the department found that Wednesday worked best. Unfortunately, the theater department didn’t follow suit when they changed Directing I to Wednesday afternoon at the last minute. As of now I’m registered for all of those classes, regardless of the conflict. Come next September, I’ll need to talk with people to see if one of those classes can be moved. Otherwise I’ll have to put off Directing until the fall of senior year, which would require a whole bunch of schedule juggling. Grrrr, theater department.

Also, my blockmates and I didn’t get any of our desired blocks for next year. When we got our lottery numbers yesterday, we found out why–they’re terrible. Because we blocked together, we have a series of six numbers in the 760s. Rising Junior numbers cut off at 800, so we’re going to have bad luck picking rooms. Also, our housing lottery is Monday at 7:30, the same time as my Movement Theater class. Grrrr, housing.

Regardless, the semester is almost over. A week and a half of classes, followed by reading week and exams. I don’t have much work left, now that my final seminar paper is done. I’ll have a lot to do to prepare for exams, though, what with catching up with all the Latin reading that I haven’t done. I’m looking forward to a month in which to do nothing before I head up to camp.

Well, it’s been a while since I posted. A week or so ago I was trying to write a post about how to make a small alcohol burning lamp that Bevan and I put together a while ago, but WordPress was uncooperative in photo uploading. Also, I haven’t yet managed to update to the new version of WordPress, but that seems to be more the fault of Fugu, which won’t let me delete the old files. Eventually, I’ll make it over to SCCS and see if they can be helpful.

I handed in my final seminar paper this morning, having pulled an all-nighter to finish it. This is the second one I’ve done on this paper, unfortunately. The other one was a couple weeks ago when the previous draft was due. The paper’s been keeping me pretty occupied since then, so I’m hoping to have a little more free time now that it’s done.

Previous to that, on Wednesday evening, I saw a showing of the documentary Second Skin. It’s about massively multiplayer online games, and how they affect the lives of a few different sets of people. I enjoyed the movie. It looked at gaming from several different perspectives, and let the viewer decide what his or her stance on the issue was. I also found it to be well-filmed and well-edited for the most part. It followed several different story lines, and while the three main ones wound throughout the movie, others were only brief interludes. These gave the film a choppy feel at times, but admittedly, I’m not sure there would have been a better way of integrating them into the rest of the movie.

The film was being shown at Swarthmore because one of the producers is a Swat alumnus from 2000. It debuted at South By Southwest, and the production team is currently looking for a distributor. Hopefully people will be able to see the movie soon. (Anyone out there who works for a distribution company should take a look at Second Skin.) In the meantime, the trailer is available on the film’s website.