Sick Day # 3

Yesterday, I came home from school early. In all honesty, I really should not have gone in the first place. My state of illness left me feeling so nauseous, that I couldn't think straight. So, I skipped rehearsal, came home and found out that I was running a temperature of 102 degrees. Throughout most of the night, I slept rather painfully. My nose was running uncontrollably. It felt like I was vomiting through my nose. And the feeling in my throat didn't make it any better.

And so this morning, I woke up early and went in to see the doctor. I remember one time that I had a doctor visit, I feel asleep and drempt that I was stuck in the hospital and couldn't get out. People were looking for me and I couldn't escape. And so the doctor didn't think it was the flu, but wanted to give me antibiotics just to make sure it wouldn't spread. I came home and decided to skip my film class due to the fact that I feel like shit and cannot functon properly.

Today I watched one of those E!'s Top 20 Hollywood Murders. It was fascinating, until a breaking news bulintin interrputed my program to inform me that Brittany Spears was, at that moment, being transported to the hospital. That followed the ambulence for about three minutes and finally went to my already-in-progress program. It made me so angry to see "Breaking News" and having it be about Brittany Spears going to the hospital. I really hope the media dies. I agree we do have a freedom of press, but if our freedom of speech is censored, why can't our freedom of press? I know that's such a radical perspective and so unlike me, so I'm going to correct it by initiating a new ordinace which allows us to kill a minimum of 70,000 paparazi a year. I hope this catches on. Everyone grab your baseball bats and meet me on Mulholland. It's game time!

And so now I'm trying to rest up for rehearsal tonight. I really shouldn't go tonight, but we have a week and a half until we put the show on, so I really have to go. I hate life. I guess I'll go back to the couch where I shall blow fire through my nose.

Hits 1, 2, & 3

Yesterday I developed a small cough, which by last night grew worse. At rehearsal, I felt like shit. First of all, let me back up even further. This is like The Spanish Apartment. Two days ago we had out second off-book rehearsal. It was our worse rehearsal yet. Terrible! No one could remember anything. I sort of don't want to live up to a perfect expectation from Dan, because we've only been rehearsing for about two weeks. I don't see where we could have memorized all of out lines by now. But we just have to go with it. Okay, now yesterday was pretty bad, but not like the second night. The first went pretty well. I just haven't had time to study my lines constantly due to the fact that I have other things to accomplish as well. But last night, I already felt like shit. My throat was sore and I was coughing a lot. I asked for a line a few times. But after rehearsal, Dan told us to keep studying over our lines. He singled out and applauded Jenna Snidemiller's ability to have all of her lines memorized. And of course Lauren, for having the most lines down. So, here I am on stage already feeling like I want to die, and I have to have this rubbed in my face. And then we had to be lectured by Brandon (age 18), our irresponsible stage manager about remembering to keep studying our lines and taking care of our health. And then, Jaye, our prop girl lectured us on getting our lines down also. I really wanted to burn the place down. This is funny. Th other day, I was talking about how much I hated this show and Lauren said, "Hey, don't say bad things about this show. I'm the star." This was where hit number one came into affect. I just wanted to hit her, because of the vast amount of arrogance she has going through her mind. She'd not the star, because there is not a single person who stands out in this play. I guess, if you want to look at it this way, if you attempt suicide in a play, then you're the star. But all three sisters share the stage equally. I really hate arrogant people.

Okay, and of course, last night I went home and took some cough medicine, because my chest was hurting from all the coughing. And last night, I had a bad reaction to the medicine. I got to sleep and I swear, I dreamed for several days. I awoke at 1:00 and felt like I'd been asleep for days, and then I awoke at 3:00 and felt like I had slept for more days. It was like the world was heavy, and time dragged. I hate that medicine so much. And so, I woke up this morning and felt even worse. The after-effects of the medicine is making me feel drowsy today. I honestly feel like I'm still asleep. I probably am. But I had to walk from one side of the campus to the other in this freezing weather and a bad fucking wind. This is hit number two. I am already sick, and yet every time the wind blew, I felt chills all throughout my body. It felt really bad. And my body ached bad. My ears felt chilled and my nose began to run again. This is all because Gordon College is failing to supply us with a decent parking lot close enough to the buildings where there's a change that I'll get pneumonia. Like I said, I'm in a bad fucking mood today. When I'm sick, I think I turn into the Hulk. I will probably end up kicking an animal before the day is over. But on my long walk to class, I felt so miserably cold, that I really wished that the cold would just hurry up and kill me. Like I just wanted to fall over dead. It was so unbelievably painful.



And so I finally got to class and he talked about the Greeks today, and someone shouted out, "Like in 300! Yeah!" He laughed and proceeded to explain the historical inaccuracy of the film. There were student who were actually shocked by this. A few I think refuse to believe it. He then went on to blast certain war movies that were also inaccurate. This really stupid trashy girl who sits two seats behind me said, "What about Pearl Harbor?" He laughed and responded, "Pearl Harbor is just a bad love story. Better yet, anything with Ben Affleck is bad." She actually got a little upset by his comment and said, "That's such a guy-thing. It's like me saying everything with Jessica Alba is bad." He gave a sarcastic nod after hearing the two words, "Jessica Alba." She then said, "What?! But you're a man." This girl is hit number 3. Although, I really should just dismiss her as ignorant, but it's so hard, because I'm a man, and I hate Jessica Alba.

In all this bad feeling, I did get back my new writing assignment and I received another 98. His comment this time was, "Mr. Lewis, I am shocked that you can write so much is so little time." Complements like this really make me feel good. He's giving us the choice to take an actual midterm or do a student lecture on the author of our choice from the second semester. Yesterday, I told him to sign me up for Beckett. I'm really excited! His comment was, "Oh good! You'll have a lot of fun with that. Although, last time I taught Beckett, I had a lot of trouble coming from the Evangelical Christians in the class." I cannot wait to teach on Beckett. MY idea is first to write on the board in big letters, "Everything = Nothing" and "God doesn't exist." Just to get a reaction, because the idea of Absurdist theatre is to alienate the audience. I thought of first alienating the class to prove my point. They might not like it though.

I'm about to go take a nap in the costume shop so I can be well rested for rehearsal. This might come off as a "pity-me" post, but it's really an "I'm pissed off at the world and hope everything dies, because I'm sick" post. More to come!

Two posts in one day. Go me! I guess you could say that I'm trying to make up for lost time. Annnyways, I skipped my Western Civ class today. I had to go by the bank and fill my tank up this morning, so that left me fifteen minutes behind schedule (I usually leave right at 9:00; giving me at least ten to fifteen minutes to get to class). But at that point, I thought I'd be late, although I could have drove fast and made the class on time, but the lack of motivation left me driving at normal speed. And so I arrived at school and blogged. That's right. Instead of going to class, I wrote that first blog.

I just got out of Brit Lit and I must say that I really enjoy that class. The first item on his agenda was to pass out the graded writing assignment from Friday. He talked about how grades were fair, and that worried me. He gave me back my assignment and said, "Good as always." The grade in the top write was a 98. It pleased me that he commented on my paper. It made me smile, but worry about less of a challenge. I doubt that Dr. King will slack off as a professor. He does criticize harshly, which I like. He's open for discussion, but if you disagree with him, you'd better bring your A-game and be able to back it up. I remember one time in English class he told us that he prefers that we disagree with him, and that he would love to debate about ANYTHING, just be able to back it up. Which really does make sense. I mean, if you're out in the real world, you would have to back it up or else even harsher consequences would follow compared to being yelled at by Dr. King. We talked about a poem by Wordsworth which I actually liked, compared to his other writings which I hate. This one was about an encounter with an old man whose profession it is to gather leaches. It sounds cool, but he gathered leaches by allowing them to attach themselves to his legs. It was so gross, but really awesome. Today, he announced, that Tom Stoppard's Arcadia is scratched off the reading list and "The History Boys" is added. He talked a long time on that play. I've heard about it, but never really looked into it. I do remember it playing when Amy and I were in New York. But I was going to pitch a fit if he took off "Endgame." Gotta have my Beckett.

Oh! And Dr. King announced that we were the first people to be informed about a new surprise. He said, in fact, that he had just signed the paper before coming to class. Drum roll...... He gladly announced that he will be heading up a Gordon College Summer semester in England 2009. I know that is pretty far away, and who knows where I'll be in 2009, but I would love to come back and go to England. He said the trip is leaning more towards the Theatre side, but he does intend to make it a Literary journey through England. I think I'm making my mind up right now that I'm going. Maybe I'll stay at Gordon in the fall, graduate, take time off in Spring of 09, and then go to England. No, I don't think I want to plan everything out now. I don't even know what I'm going to eat for lunch today. But that trip really sounds like fun!

I just finished reading Acts 1 and 2 of The Tempest, and it's pretty good. I ordered the movie this past weekend and it already came. Tony asked me not to see the movie until after I finish my design project. You might ask yourself why I bought the movie, well, I wanted a visual representation as well. Wanna fight about it? And might I also add that the movie stars John Cassavetes, Raul Julia, and is directed by the guy who made "Scenes From A Mall." Although, I shall respect the demands given by my professor AND BOSS. Wow, I can say that my boss is also related to me in another matter. How cool.

Well, I think I'm going to do lunch. I promised some people that I would eat in order to stay alive for them. Haha. Oh Will...

Yeah, so I know that I have not posted a new blog in quite some time. So you wanna fight about it? Haha. I forgot where I heard that saying from. Anyways, now that I've kicked off with a lame ass saying I now can go into talking about things. I have not posted in a while because of two reasons: 1) I've been extremely busy and 2) When I did sit down, I didn't know what to say. In all honesty, I could have made the short walk to the Righting Center and do what it is that I'm doing now. I'm just rambling on hoping that something will come out. The ironic part is that I'm in the Righting Center write now. I think it's funny that the people in charge of this place think it's motivational to missssspell the name of the area for their and the students benefits. Maybe they're not. Maybe it's the students who are in charge of putting those flyers up. Anyways, the adult-in-charge today is Dr. Doug Davis. He actually stepped out about four minutes ago and all of us have been left here unsupervised. I like that. He seems like a really cool professor. Amy wants to take his classes in hopes for a challenge. He seems like the type to really challenge. Someone like Mr. Kirk, only white and has a PHD. Whenever he gets back I'm going to ask him if he's teaching a Southern Literature course later on, that way I can let Amy know for sure. I know how excited she gets about this. Speaking of the devil, he's back.

Work has been tough. It would seem easier if I could find my Social Security card, that way I can actually be on the payroll. Tony and I are to move the entire set off stage so tomorrow, people can come and set up equipment for some Bluegrass band coming to play on Friday. By the way, tickets for the show are $15.00. What college student would pay fifteen dollars for a show, much less a Bluegrass band. I want to petition in front of the board that we should get Stephen Colbert to come and lecture. I CAN see students paying up to $35 for a ticket to that show.

In movie news, There Will Be Blood is leading the Oscar race. That makes me so happy! Paul Thomas Anderson is nominated for director and writer. I'm thrilled that people are taking notice to his work. I haven't seen it yet, but I have HIGH hopes for it. He's a renegade filmmaker who loves to break the Hollywood rules. I recently found out that he was the person to leak the trailer back in the Summer. He said that you can do all sorts of shit with youtube. He made a rough cut trailer from the film and put it online and in the morning, he received a call from the studio boss yelling at him for doing it. But the matter died down when the boss saw that there were positive comments left. It's funny how good ratings will shut an executive up. I thought Magnolia was a genius work of art. Practically everyone thinks I'm stupid for thinking that. Anyone who tells Tom Cruise to play himself has got to be great.

In entertainment news, Josh and I are making the "Josh and Will Show." I have brainstormed out six episodes and have a rough outline of how they will go. I tried writing the Pilot, but really struggled. Writing for TV is VERY hard. Basically I'm doing what I did with "Relationshop." I'm getting one-liner ideas and formulating them into conversation. I'm adding the element of visual storytelling as well. It will be hard to play director and actor at the same time. But last night, Josh and I did a lot of improv situations and came up with even more ideas. Improvisation is the greatest tool since the slinky. So much comes out of just thinking on your feet. Maybe the strain of time helps the brain flow even faster. Sometimes it's nerve wrecking, but when you have to make your mind work, sometimes it just flows. Okay, so I don't know how many episodes there will be total, but I know that we're going to have SORE many outtakes to add to the special features. We've also considered doing an audio commentary. I'm hoping to get most of the Pilot and the second episode written before the day is over.

Now, to work!