Good Percy, Sannali! If you’re so desperate for homework, I can give you some of mine!

I got my research paper back today. 84. Go me! ::grooves:: I knew I wouldn’t get an A, so I’m thrilled. My English grades are usually wretched, so it’s all good. I also got my semester grades in the mail yesterday. Mostly A’s, with a few B’s sprinked about. ::grooves some more:: Now I’m off to the SMU library to do research for my History research paper. I’m so glad we have such freedom in our topics! I don’t have my thesis set in stone yet, but I’m fairly certain that I’m going to write about the social factors influencing the writing of musicals in the early 20th century. Show Boat (1920’s) to West Side Story (1950’s). Or I might write about social commentary in musicals instead. Either way, I’ll keep myself entertained. Muaha!

Today, I was reading this book about said musicals, absorbing details about scene progression and layout and song distribution and such for a dozen shows, simultaneously pondering on how I could apply this knowledge to “Men at Arms”. The other day, I went through the book and dotpointed all the “scene” things, racking up a list of over 100 scene-lets. Over the past few days, I’ve been cutting, rearranging, merging, snipping, and inserting all the scenes into slightly new order, trying to cut down the book into a sizeable piece of writing of suitable length for a musical. Of the original hundred, I’ve already cut it down to fifty. Yowza.

Now I’m off to SMU! Boldly venturing where thousands of students have gone before! Muaha! ::dashes away::