Ahh… Today’s a pretty good day! Mushishi vol. 4 was in the mail! Yay!
And two out of four packages for my move arrived. That was pretty fast! I hope I get the other two soon too.
Yesterday I bought a microphone so I can record sound effects for my movie. Yes, I bought one instead of borrowing one from school. I don’t feel like wasting approximately three hours on going to Trollhättan and back again just to get it and then redo the whole thing two days later just because I need to return it.
No thanks! I’ve got better things to do. (Besides, I’ve always wanted one.)

All of Saturday I was editing short stories and having a hell lot of angst over it all.
But now it’s done. Let’s just hope I make it into the book. I want to be in that bloody book! I want to!!!

Today I’m planning my short movie. It’s going pretty good.
Also thinking some about my essay. It’s kind of bugging me because I really want it to be finished – without my input! Thehe!
Oh… Yeah… I received two reviews saying I had too many words in my essay. To you two who wrote those reviews I just wanna say this: You do NOT count the references! :twisted:

Seriously… Some things just bug me…

Today everything seems dificult. I have a home exam to write and it’s going… not at all. Last home exam for Birgitte and all I want to do is sleep.
I fell asleep a while ago by the way. With Thompson’s book as my pillow. Totally dozed off for over an hour and dreamt really cool things I’d like to turn in to a nice short story, but… Some other day.

Home exam first. Then Catahya’s short stories. Then essay. Then short movie around the clock until it’s done.

That’s the plan.

I’m lazy today. The English version have to be short…

In a few words: Have come up with a new idea for my movie. Spent this morning shopping props on eBay. Now I have homework to do. Tomorrow I have to redo SOT among other things…

Movie idea = happy thoughts!
Homework = gloomy thoughts… :sad:

The end.

Yesterday was granddad’s 80th birthday and thus the whole family had dinner together. It was nice.
And today my bestest best friend, Tusse, turned 16! Yay! Happy Birthday!
(Tusse is my cat. The lurvliest cat in the world, me thinks. Yes, I do.)

Other than that… It’s fine weather outside again and I’m inside working on home exams and essay reviews. And it’s Sunday. (Read: It S-U-C-K-S!)
But today is Pretend-you’re-a-hard-working-student Day so I need to keep going.

Tomorrow I’ve promised (more or less) to start working on my short stories. And it’ll be a nice break from school. If I’m finished with all my homework before then.
Otherwise it’ll just be even more stress than usual. And we don’t like that.

(Oh, and right… Don’t ask about the movie. Just don’t. I’m still thinking.) :S

Music. Today it’s all about music.
Since the folks aren’t home right now it’s mainly about testing how much Hans Zimmer my speakers can take. (And how much my ears can take. Hehe.)
The speakers seem to manage more than my ears so far anyway.

I LOVE my speakers!
A pair of 13 year old (!!!), big Commodores, that some snobs like to bully me for since they apparently find them “ugly”. Best way to silence that kind of people is to play something in the old babies and laugh really maliciously when they get their eardrums blown out.

Best thing about living in the country side: You can actually find out how much noise you can squeeze out of your speakers without the neighbours come running from everywhere to yell at you – this is why I’ll never feel at home in the city.
And honestly… I’ve never dared to crank up the volume to max on these monsters. I’ll most certainly go deaf. The speakers would live through it alright, but my hearing would not!

Besides Zimmer I have the Iron Man OST playing on high volume and it’s nice. Very nice. A while ago I made a sentimental nosedive into the world of the Harry Potter OSTs. It was nice too.

While sitting here I’m thinking about my short movie.
I’ve been hit by absolute lack of ideas when it comes to creative things, I’m afraid. To squeeze this weeks essay out of my brain was hard enough. It was buried incredibly deep down.
Next week is also the deadline for the short stories for Catahya. I need to deal with them, but I have no idea how or when. (Read: WORRIED!)

Alex and I were talking about joining our film projects into one, but we have no idea what to make of it yet. Need to come up with something fast in that case…
Otherwise I think I’ll sit down and really force a good idea out of my head. A rewritten version of my original idea, but easier to make wouldn’t be so bad. I’m thinking about it…
The camera is lying on my desktop and the tripod is in the closet so when (if) I get struck by lightning and I get a flash of genius I’m ready to roll. *think, think, think*

I’m seriously going to search for music for my movie this weekend. Because I feel that I want to do something with music and without some music to build on it wouldn’t be much of a movie.
But given that I’m not a composer myself and don’t even understand notes I have to find the music first and make the film to it. It would have been nice to be able to do it the other way around, but since I don’t have Hans Zimmer on speed dial I’ll have to do it backwards.

Okay… Remember when I said I was an erratic blogger? Well here’s the proof of that. (If you ever doubted me.)

So what have I’ve been up to lately? Honestly I don’t know what to tell you. I’ve been mourning my dead projects. Dead because I’ve tried to keep up with school – actually trying to be a good student, but in the end failing because I’m too tired and feel like all my energy has gone to waste for absolutely nothing.
Because truthfully… This wasn’t what I signed up for. Maybe I didn’t really know what it was I wanted when this program started, but lately it’s becoming more and more clear that this isn’t it. I’m not the type to learn things “half way through”… I’m the 120% girl who gives her life for the things she believes in! And this just isn’t it…

So what do you do? You talk to the student counsellor and what does she have to say? Basically that this year’s students are so screwed compared to the previous years that I feel like crying. Why do I always end up in some kind of school “experiment”!? It’s been like a goddamned virus ever since first grade!
“Hey, let’s do some mindless changes to the school system and try it on the kids from the 80′s! Who cares if we fuck up an entire generation! There’s always the next one!”

Yeah, well… That’s what it feels like anyway…

So… Concerning the current school projects there’s the essay and remaining two home exams to write. The essay should be fun but everything else is kind of taking the edge out of the writing so I find myself not caring about the outcome even though I want to care.

Thursday is booked for filming the group movie. I will be playing Death. Yeah, that suits me more than well. I’ll make Neil Gaiman proud.
Problems to solve: Find one white and one black room in school. Otherwise we should be good to go. (Of course I could always work some more on the script, but it’s as good as finished so that’s… good.)

As for my own short movie I don’t know… I’ve kind of lost interest because it feels like it’s not worth wasting a lot of hard work on something that probably could be done much simpler and still get a fairly good grade. But then again… I really liked that idea and I’ve gone through all the trouble of gathering costumes and stuff so… Blah, I don’t know! I’ll have to deal with it next week.
Jenny is booked as my assistant and whatever happens we’ll end up filming next week. Unless I’ve come up with an entirely new idea until then I guess we’ll stick to the plan. Then I’ve got some nice around-the-clock editing to do. I actually like that kind of work. It’s been so long since my last movie project I’m kind of looking forward to it.
Well… Let’s see how it all turns out.

On another note I saw Iron Man last Friday. And. I. Utterly. Loved. It.
Seriously… I’ve always been a fan of comics converted into movies, but they always seem to fall on their ass somehow when they try to be both cool and serious at the same time. Few succeed in being both cool and intelligent at the same time. The first X-Men movie was a nice try and Batman Begins. But not compared to Iron Man. Nope! Iron Man is brilliant! Cool, funny, smart, sexy, serious, high-tech and just… major kick ass!
(Alright you may all stop teasing me now.)

But it was an awfully good movie. Jenny and I left the cinema in a daze of lyrical “That was just the coolest thing ever!”-rush, grinning from ear to ear along with the rest of the 250+ that had also been in the movie theatre and seen it.
So now (as I’m sitting here listening to the Iron Man OST) I’m slightly disappointed in the fact that Tony Stark is a fictive character and not someone I can actually marry.
I have a feeling I’ll be in love with Robert Downey Jr. for quite some time now. And a little bit in love with Gwyneth Paltrow too. (Yeah, I know how that sounds, but she was utterly cool – and cute – too!)

So anyway… Iron Man rocked my socks and I now want my own Iron Man-suit for Christmas. (iPhone my ass!)

Other than that: I want summer vacation! NOW! (And Iron Man on DVD!)

Oh, and I actually like to blog in English better than in Swedish so unless someone feels like translating this fat post for me this one is English only. Sorry about that. By blog. My rules. Suck it up!