Halloween

It's almost Halloween.

I was never really into Halloween before - I didn't really get the holiday. As a child I didn't go trick-or-treating, because that wasn't really a thing where I lived. So as I grew up it didn't really impact me on a personal level. It's a lot bigger deal where I live now, and people go pretty crazy for it. It makes me feel as though I was somewhat deprived in my childhood in terms of October activities.

To be honest, I love themed holidays. I think they're fun and a chance to do something slightly different from the norm. I'm so excited for Christmas this year that you wouldn't believe it (especially if you knew me in real life because I'm a shopping-on-the-24th kind of gal.) I want to go to a farm and play in a corn maze and carve pumpkins and drink apple cider. The only problems with this are that I'm very poor at the moment and that I live far away from most of these attractions.

I'm trying to convince some people to go with me to a haunted house this week after class sometime. I found a coupon so it'll only be $10 a person. It sucks because I would love to have PT (my boyfriend) come with me so that I can scream and latch onto him, but he's so busy that there's no way that's happening. I really hope someone with a car comes, because that would make life so much easier!

I'm still planning to do a pumpkin. PT and I bought these little mini pumpkins for $1.25 each. They're adorable and we're planning to carve them on Monday. If it turns out well, I'll post a photo on here. If not, well...maybe I won't.

This weekend I have a few assignments to do for writing school. One is for my playwriting class. I'm supposed to write part of my play and hand it in, but it needs to be an "angry scene". I need at least two characters being angry with one another for a minimum of 5 pages. I kind of take issue with this because I'm not sure that I'll be able to do 5 pages of anger, given what my play is about (it's a murder mystery). I can definitely think of some intense moments, and some arguments, but not a single scene of anger lasting 5 pages (which in acting time is 7.5 minutes, as a page of a play is equal to one and a half minutes stage time).

This is definitely my least favourite of my classes, largely because it always feels like we're wasting time, but also because I couldn't think of ANY good ideas for my play. This assigment is a prime example of wasting time - not writing it, because writing is a matter of practice - but the fact that everyone in the class is writing this very specific kind of scene with a prescribed length (did I mention that I take issue with it having to be both from my play and 5 pages long?) and that we won't get any real feedback on it from this professor. We'll read every one of them out in class (and there will be 30), and then that will be it for the class. What feedback we'll get will be from our peers, and given our existing friendships, it will be somewhat on the biased side.

I suppose I'll let you know how it goes. I'm also writing a feature-length film, a short film, a spec script for a television show and other things this semester. More info on those will be forthcoming as I run into problems and feel like complaining about them!