Thursday, February 22, 2007

Night of the Living Dead and other Abnormalities!

I have begun my large school project for this year. Its probably the longest paper I have written thus far. Its for my Cinema class. Basically, we are required to pick a subject or theme and discuss how it has change over a period of a decade or how it effected the culture. Its basically noting the social commentary of the movie.
I, being the cute little zombie-loving girl that I am, choose to examine 1958-1968 and the movies The Blob, The Birds, and the all famous... Night of the Living Dead. It is going to be fabulous. I would like to talk about the Dialect of Enlightenment. I think I'll have to buy that book, though I might have a copy of it in my download-able note section for Critical Political Philosophy. Anyway... I'm either doing the progression of Heroism in films during that era or I'm going to do the decades rising technology and depletion of nature... and nature strikes back!
I'm pretty pumped. I would like to write a cohesive paper... but, I wonder if I can combine several themes with in this paper. I feel that these movies represent so much. The Role of Women and the Depletion of the Nuclear family is enough to write a book probably. I think I need to set up an appointment with my professor to figure out what I need to be doing.
I finished my Bibliography today and though it has to grow, I already have 10 great sources!!

Anyway... I think I'm going to ditch my next class and go take a nap. I studied until like 3am when I came home. Let me note on my roommates retarded studying habits. I think it notes her age and maturity... and it kind of annoys me. Its kind of funny... she wonders around the house doing everything before she can sit down to study. Things that don't need to be done right that second. For example, adding another light bulb to the ceiling light. She doesn't know how and knows that Erick will do it for us when he comes home from school... but, insist on wondering around the house trying to figure it out. She finally begins her stuff late at night... around 10pm only to give up on it at 12am to take a nap... I come home to find her sleeping on the study floor and crazed and confused. My question is why don't you just go to bed... you are obviously not doing any work... so you shouldn't pretend that you stayed up all night writing... because it is obvious that you are not. Today, her and my other roommate will complain about how they only got 3 hours sleep when really they slept the whole night with the book on their chest. Unless they are absorbing the words, I doubt they have any room to complain and probably should consider actually studying for real.
I guess those roommates have been bugging me... and I know its none of my business but the problem I find is that they probably shouldn't be living in an apartment. It seems to me that they are struggling with time management and simple stuff that "mom" usually does for them at home... like buying toilet paper. Their child-like attitudes has lead Victoria and I to just buy secret supplies for ourselves to use only. It will probably take them a while to realize that we weren't kidding when we said throw in money for toilet paper... and we were being dramatic when wanted to be told when we were out in order to buy more. Ultimately, it will take the a while to realize that the stuff they are doing is hurting them... They can't pretend that the D they got on the paper (true story) was not their fault when they wrote it in the middle of the night and drifting in and out of consciousness...
At least I know I'm passing! One more semester!!

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