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Feb. 27th, 2007 08:14 pmThe good: I've been invited to the first donship group interview thing. (Don = RA, if you know the other name.) I got three copies of the email invite, which I guess is a good thing because I applied to three different residences.
The bad: Now I might have to track down the people who are my references and actually have to get them to write reference letters for me. In triplicate. (That reminds me, I need to ask some profs about reference letters for the summer internship class.)
The ugly: If I get the donship I'll have eight months of accommodation paid for, will get a $1000 stipend on top of that, and it'll look great on my resume. I'll also have hella-important Responsibilities, little free time and won't be living downtown anymore. Move-in would also be in some bizarre mid-month thing, which is all wacky because I'm renting and my rent's due on the first of the month. So either I'll be homeless for two weeks, or I'll have to eat the full month's rent. Plus there's the deal with where I'll be this summer. If I do the aforementioned internship I'll probably want to be downtown. Also 99% of my friends are downtown. So maybe I'll stay downtown? If that's an issue. If I don't get the donship thing I will be downtown for the year. The "if I don't" plan is so very simple compared to all the other headaches that the don-thing causes. There's also the issue of where I'll be the summer after next, after the school year is done. I'm planning to move to a different city for grad studies, but I'd want to move in August/September and spend that next summer here; but I'd have to find another place to stay for that summer, too (rather than staying with the downtown place that I would have been at for the rest of the year). But developing leadership = good, and not paying rent = good, and being a part of a community = good, and being on campus = good for academic reasons (and also because my paid jobs are there). *flails*
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We watched Hard Core Logo in class today and I love that film so VERY much. As a Bruce McDonald film, it's better than Last Night. As a rock n'roll mockumentary, it's cleverer and more subversive than Spinal Tap. As a quirky Canadian film, it has some beautifully lyrical parts, some homages to Canadian experimental film and the editing alone is worth epic *flails* of praise. And for slash potential? Billy Tallent (Callum Keith Rennie) and Joe Dick (Hugh Dillon) are even more canon than Remus/Sirius.
Hard Core Logo is weapons-grade awesomesauce. Which is to say it's one of the best films I've seen. (And that I own).
And we watched it in class! YAY! (That professor didn't give us a reading or screening list so every class is a surprise...)
The bad: Now I might have to track down the people who are my references and actually have to get them to write reference letters for me. In triplicate. (That reminds me, I need to ask some profs about reference letters for the summer internship class.)
The ugly: If I get the donship I'll have eight months of accommodation paid for, will get a $1000 stipend on top of that, and it'll look great on my resume. I'll also have hella-important Responsibilities, little free time and won't be living downtown anymore. Move-in would also be in some bizarre mid-month thing, which is all wacky because I'm renting and my rent's due on the first of the month. So either I'll be homeless for two weeks, or I'll have to eat the full month's rent. Plus there's the deal with where I'll be this summer. If I do the aforementioned internship I'll probably want to be downtown. Also 99% of my friends are downtown. So maybe I'll stay downtown? If that's an issue. If I don't get the donship thing I will be downtown for the year. The "if I don't" plan is so very simple compared to all the other headaches that the don-thing causes. There's also the issue of where I'll be the summer after next, after the school year is done. I'm planning to move to a different city for grad studies, but I'd want to move in August/September and spend that next summer here; but I'd have to find another place to stay for that summer, too (rather than staying with the downtown place that I would have been at for the rest of the year). But developing leadership = good, and not paying rent = good, and being a part of a community = good, and being on campus = good for academic reasons (and also because my paid jobs are there). *flails*
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We watched Hard Core Logo in class today and I love that film so VERY much. As a Bruce McDonald film, it's better than Last Night. As a rock n'roll mockumentary, it's cleverer and more subversive than Spinal Tap. As a quirky Canadian film, it has some beautifully lyrical parts, some homages to Canadian experimental film and the editing alone is worth epic *flails* of praise. And for slash potential? Billy Tallent (Callum Keith Rennie) and Joe Dick (Hugh Dillon) are even more canon than Remus/Sirius.
Hard Core Logo is weapons-grade awesomesauce. Which is to say it's one of the best films I've seen. (And that I own).
And we watched it in class! YAY! (That professor didn't give us a reading or screening list so every class is a surprise...)
