Wednesday Forum

Here's what is rocking my world this week.

Political Economy

Yes, I said it. Last week, our normal TA Brian was missing, so Theo, the other TA from Greece came in and lead our discussion. Aside from his awesome accent, he did a lot of things that made me really enjoy the class. For starters, he joined us in taking the mickey out on our Canadian teacher, Murray Jardine (jar-deen). Secondly, he fought to have two questions from our test that we did not go over in the lectures thrown out. Yahoo for bonus points! In conclusion, when the number 300 came up in our discussion, he totally refrenced Leonidas and the Brave Spartans. BANG-A-RANG

Hexa Elemental

For those of you with no idea what that is, I am in the process of writing a fantasy story about 6 heroes who happen upon one another and save the world. Typical fantasy-epic material. However, I really think this story is starting to have a lot of merit. Rather than continue drafting and redrafting the story over and over again, I have spent the last few month really trying to organize all my notes and get down as much specific information about the world these characters are living in as possible. This means languages, dialects, economics, complete histories, geneologies, and all sort of hoopla! It's a lot of fun to create your own world and write the history from scratch....it was Tolkien's favorite part about writing Lord of the Rings, and is fast becoming one of my favorite activities. Escaping from heavy art, ex-girlfriends, and personal troubles is easiest when you leave this world and dive into one of your own. I expect to finish a re-write of the first third of the story over thanksgiving, so ask me about it!

Guys and Dolls

So maybe it's not the best musical in the world, but I am going to see my friend Sawyer in a production of it up in Nashville this weekend. I will be getting out of the state for the first time in quite a while with this trip, and I'm really looking forward to seeing my best friend Nathan Douglas McCarty again. It's been too long. (which I define as a month or two. Back off). It's also a road trip with two of my closest friends, Chris Kelly and Joe Woddail. These guys rock out loud, and it's going to be an awesome trip to Music City. In unrelated news, the Titans and Rams both got their first wins of the season this weekend. Things are trying their hardest to look up, and if the next two weeks go according to plan, they just might turn out alright!