A Case of the Blahs

I'm sitting again in class listening to lectures. This one normally would be interesting but I already know the material the teacher is covering. He's talking about the Native American groups in Ohio pre-Columbus and last spring I had an entire class with him devoted to just that so now that I'm in his Native American class that covers all of the Americas that segment of the class (for the past 3 weeks) has been stuff I already learned. That means I don't have to pay much attention and does allow me to get script writing done. We have a test Monday and then we should start the American Southwest which should be interesting.

Math is math and Cultural Anthro is blah too considering we are just going over various issues and listening to powerpoint presentations from students. I got mine done Wednesday. Forensics is actually rather interesting and Dr. Bob is quite insane. He's the one who had us watch a complete autopsy on TV on Halloween. That was sadistic! UGH! I'm not squeamish normally. I have no problems cleaning dead animals and fish. But I draw the line at cutting open dead people. That's why i'll be going into archaeology. By the time we come across dead people they are just bones and bones don't bother me. My Forensics class is in a room completely filled with Human and primate bones on every available surface. I call it the Boneyard. One creepy fact about Cleveland I bet you never knew - Our Natural History Museum has one of the only two huge collections of human bones (THOUSANDS) in the world that all the forensic and medical standards and studies on bones use for their reference subjects. The only other such collection is in the Smithsonian in Washington DC. What it is doing in Cleveland of all places I wouldn't know. Just one of those quirks of fate. We found Lucy too - the first Australeopithicus Afarensis. But considering Cleveland is a dead zone having a ton of bones in the museum vault is rather fitting.

I'm actually thinking of seeing if I can write a murder mystery script for my big final paper in Forensics. I spoke to one girl and he's letting her write a story as long as she cites scientific evidence. I might make it into an episode of Gaia. Murder on the Zooship! LOL. I'm actually serious. Don't worry, cast, I won't be popping an extra episode on you last minute before the semester ends. There's only a month left. Though I might work it in with a smaller cast. I actually debated having the pilots be off on a mission somewhere. Or maybe put it on Gaia and have Creeper start pestering Borask (Detective Creeper on the case)! Only the cast would know who Creeper is but you'll run into him in the December episode along with a lot of other cool characters and one that is positively creepy. I wrote the lines and he still creeps the HELL out of me every time I listen.

I plan on finishing for certain Gaia 3 for Monday. I have a few tweaks to do and a Secret Scene to put in -- if Rene gets me her lines. So if you've listened already then be ready to listen again. I know I sent it out to a few people. Next week I will be starting the mixing on Gaia 4 - probably starting with Scene 2 and moving to the end simply because I have been wanting to mix all that for MONTHS now. Things on Gaia REALLY get interesting from Episode 4 on. Eps 1-3 were just setting the stage. Episode 4 is where things REALLY begin. I can't wait to hear those scenes come to life. It's one of the nice things about doing what I am doing - writing, mixing, and producing. Everything is mine from start to finish and I get to hear the lines people send to me and my characters and stories literally come to life. It never ceases to give me a thrill.

In any case, we are now listening to stuff on the American Southwest so I better start paying attention. Class ends in 20 min and then I think I shall take a nap.