Action!

Today, I acted for the first time in a while. One of my floormates is a sophomore film major, and he just randomly asked me one night if I'd be in one of his class projects opposite another floormate. I didn't have anything to do this afternoon, so I decided to do it. The plot was about some guy who's a hoarder and an artist, whose girlfriend left him when his problems got so out of hand that he drove her away. We went to the set, along with a girl who was assigned to be a director's assistant or something, and it's this really fancy-looking apartment building. Which just happens to be my floormate's summer home. Holy. Crap.

Now for the actual filming. Film acting's a little weird, especially when it's a silent film. After setting everything up, which took a while, the fun stuff began. In the first shot, I was supposed to be encouraging him to let me help him clean up. That involved me putting a hand on his thigh, and in the first take our director friend prompted with, "Hand action!" Hilarity ensued.

We're all so mature in college. I'd definitely consider being in a movie again.

Sewing Faces

In costume construction, we're learning how to use sewing machines. I thought I knew a lot, but I don't actually know very much at all about the official way to do things. We had an assignment to draw or trace a silly face on plain muslin, and then sew said face onto it. I was terrible at it, which was a bit of a problem, until the end. We showed them off.

"It looks like a rapist!"

And thus, Chester Randall the Third was born.

The people in that class are pretty awesome.

The Club

I feel like this is a good early thing to talk about, since it's a college-y thing to do. My friends Lindsay and Rebecca had gone to some nightclub the weekend beforehand, and there was an event at a different 18+ nightclub the weekend after. They invited me to go, and I figured it might be fun. First, we didn't know where to go. We walked past this line of people that looked a little sketchy, and that turned out to be the club. So we went in, and start awkwardly dancing in the corner where there were slightly less people crowded together. Apparently the way to get a girl to dance with you at a club is to step behind her and wrap your arms around her waist...if the girl's lucky. Ick. The dancing itself actually wasn't that bad, but some of the guys were a little more problematic. The second guy was someone who I recognized as an Emersonian, and not one of the attractive ones. It was that guy who was all beard that I'd met about two weeks before. The guy that stayed with me the longest was extremely attractive, according to Leah. I don't know, I never even saw his face.

Roomie Dynamics

One time, I made a weird noise in the dark after my roommate had watched a horror movie. We left a light on for the rest of the night. I'm evil.

Orientation Madness!

Orientation was crazy. Socializing with tons of people I barely knew, trying to find common ground. I quickly learned that I needed to get everyone's numbers, or else I'd never find them again. Within a day, I had some friends on my floor, and I'd run into the few people I already knew once in a while. The great thing about Emerson is that the facebook group is still very active, and if boredom hits you can just go out and meet new people.
 My favorite event was called Hooray! Everyone went into a massive room in a hotel, and some guy led us through a bunch of icebreakers. We had to introduce ourselves to as many people as possible, and then it progressed to hugging random strangers. I remember this one awkward guy whose face was mostly beard, but more on him later. After that there was a bunch of finding a few people and grouping up. I managed to find a guy I'd met at a preview event, back when neither of us knew we were coming to Emerson. There were some people that I met who were in my classes later on, and it was just a really great way to meet new people.

College So Far

This might take a while. My first few days were pretty awkward, but I have an awesome roommate, so life's pretty good. Where should I even start to explain what I've been up to lately? I guess I'm just going general right now, followed by a few stories of my tomfoolery. I've experienced my first rejection from a theatre troupe. I'm the only kid in my major. Things have been pretty weird at times. But at the same time, life's been pretty freaking awesome.