I have no trouble speaking as a leader or in front of a group, but I cannot present from an outline or prepared text.

the one format i do really cool with is having a powerpoint with bullet notes and filling it in with all the stuff i know, but otherwise i can't plan a presentation to save my life. i wing it.

I prefer to wing it, but I've been forced to otherwise for my last presentation. I was allowed a speaking outline (no full sentences unless transitions, opening/closing, or quotes) and visual aids (powerpoints had to have minimal text). I was miserable because I didn't put enough info on my outline and rambled and went over the time limit, so points off.

the highlight, i think, of my academic career thusfar has been an english oral i had to present in ninth grade about my favorite book as a child. as soon as i got to the podium, i forgot EVERYTHING except what book it was (anna karenina). i said some incredibly silly things. my teacher cut me off a minute short because she realized i was up there pulling things out of the sky. i even mentioned how i had a huge crush on one of the characters and thought anna was a "silly scarlet woman".

Haha. I did that a bunch in high school. I never got stopped thought because my teachers usually never caught on to the fact that I was just making things up.

Attack of the Clones is done. Time for the final one.

that's the only time i've ever been stopped, because usually i can make a joke or be charming and awesome enough to counteract my awkwardness. but the anna karenina oral was plain bad.

i'm surprised teachers never caught on that i always made shit up.

It's even more fun in college. I made an A on a movie review in French on that Godard movie I never saw. I just rambled about camera angles and French New Wave for 350 words.

haha, that's too funny. it's the best, though, getting the a. for history classes especially, it's so easy to write whatever because as long as there are a few words like "context" or something with more than eight letters, you can get a b at the minimum.

apparently casablanca is/was on tonight. damnit!

Why do you think I'm a history major? Because all you have to do is either BS something close or argue that someone was wrong and you're guaranteed to make an A.

Fuzzy kittens. I might have cut my Star Wars binge short for that.

that's why i'm going into art history and writing (then planning to pull a pr or communications job out it). i just get to talk about stuff i like.

I'm hoping to end up writing for a living because I really don't want to teach and there's not much to be done with a history major.

Ugh, vodka. Not sure if I can stomach that anymore, should find out this weekend though.

my real goal is to combine lots of writing with maybe having my own music venue/gallery. i don't really know. as long as it doesn't take place in florida, i'm happy with anything.

I'm heading back to school this afternoon (Sunday) and then the weekend is standard but it's a home football game and there's always wild parties. I just have to decide whether or not I'm up for wearing a toga and participating in the Drunken Olympics that a friend of mine is holding or spending the night with someone sober.

only time you have been stopped during oral?

oh. fsu has games on fridays, so i'm used to hearing about the shenanigans on friday nights then sunday being detox day.

drunken olympics sounds dangerous. no javelin, is there? my school's track team, a few years back, had to eliminate the javelin competition because while demonstrating how to hold on, the coach ran the javelin through a girl's thigh. totally sober, of course, but still..

goddamnit it, i walked into that one.

Parties for UT home games start Thursday night and carrying over until early Sunday.

Straight from the Facebook event listing:

The Drunken Olympics...... what more can I truly say about it?

Events :
Drunken Twister
Beer Pong Tournament
Flip Cup Tournament
Shotgun a beer relay
and what ever else we can come up with!

Rules:
1. You must blow at least a .08 on our Breathalyzer that we will be getting.
2. No cheating.....
3. House rules for every game will be posted before each event.
4. Get drunk.....

fsu is lame and i guess by saturday night, they realize that they're at fsu and just need a day of quiet reflection.

god, drunken twister sounds fun.

drinking olympics??

sounds men on films.

It would be if one of the apartment residents wasn't going to be a douche and play sober just to feel girls up. I've been looking for a good excuse to throw that guy off his balcony.


If I do make an appearance I won't be in a toga or participating. Just drinking whatever liquor I can find.

i would just throw him off. that one sentence makes me want to throw him.


what yup, crypto?!

howdy doody people
how are we

Yeah, he's got it coming to him. He'll get his ass beat at one of his own parties in due time, just hopefully I'll be there to see it.

i'm awesome!

josh- i have some people i'm waiting to either beat up or watch be beat up. as long as i'm there, i don't care what happens.

If only I was an angry drunk it would a non-issue. But, alas, I'm a very cheery drunk.

Not much, just reflecting on my day
Listening to Philip Glass
Having a glass of Pinot

Yourself?

me too! the pinot.

what philip glass? i plan on marrying his cousin ira, one day. when he's single.

i'm overall feeling very well tonight.

Noir or Gris?
What year?

grigio.. mondavi 04?

Oh and p.s. "Facades"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuI_nCADnW0

wicked. i really love philip glass.

i was thinking about texas today, crypto. i really want to go to dallas again. and houston, because it sounds so fun.

for josh- did you know there's a three night special on pbs this week about mgm? it looks so cool! i thought you'd be interested.

Nice
I'm not a fan of white wine
I am drinking a glass, well, a bottle eventually, of red wine (Vougeot 2004)

I didn't know that. I'll be sure to check it out.

i prefer reds, but whites do in the absence. i really want a cigarette to go along with the wine, but sadly i don't. it's all i've wanted this weekend.

My parents have a stash of bottles that they never drink
They are Mormon, so they don't drink
But people always give them bottles of wine as gifts
It is rude not to accept a gift

i don't know if it's just about mgm or if that's only one part of it, but i really love learning about how the studios worked back in the '20s and '30s. there was this rad book in the provo library full of old movie posters from the major studios of that era. i wish i had been able to check it out or steal it.