Yes, we've been watching Taxi Driver in class.

Okay, actually it's not raining at the moment. In fact the sun's out now. But we did have several straight days of solid overcast with periodic spits of rain and no visible sun at all - classic Vancouver weather.

I got drenched biking back from school Monday. Mostly though, the rain is sporadic enough that you've got a good choice of it just being wet everywhere, and gray.

I've been busy as hell. My classes all have presentations of one sort or another. The instructors here do love them a student presentation. The charitable interpretation of this is that it's meant to make us more comfortable just getting up in front of a bunch of people and talking, as we'll need to do in pitch situations.

The less charitable one is that, the more time we're up there presenting, the less they have to do. I'm not making a judgement or anything, but...

So this week I had a Creativity presentation (talk about something that inspires you, and come up with a brief writing exercise around it for the class). Today a team presentation on the history of TV in the 1940s (yes there was some) and 1950s. That one was a pain in the ass because I had to coordinate with two other, very different, people and we didn't do that very well. But we'll survive.

Apart from that, read a script and write a paper each week for another class. Next week I get to add in a presentation on the plot of It's a Wonderful Life. There's a story presentation coming up that involves some story and something I'm going to say about it, but I really have no idea what's wanted there. There's a TV series review, whatever that is. A software test to show I know how to use Final Draft.

At some point I'll probably do some writing. As if all this wasn't enough I just started an elective class from the acting department in Voice Over. I've always wanted to learn some techniques for controlling my voice - so someday people will understand what I'm saying. I figure in a year I'm going to be unemployed and trying to sell scripts, so the potential to pick up the odd job recording narration for corporate videos or whatever might help lower Elisa's Terror Level back down to yellow or so. But the real reason is that I want to produce some audio drama. It's my sneaky plan to get my work produced and out in front of people without having to (a) deal with a director who's going to own the project (b) have to mess with a bunch of cinematography and visual stuff that isn't the point for me or (c) expend huge amounts of money and time on a project.

So I'm doing that.

What I'm not doing is writing. Well, not very much. I'm getting some squeezed in around the corners, but not nearly as much as I'd hoped. And I'm not going to WisCon, where Flytrap #2 will debut with my story, You're Never Insane Girl Twice, but without me to enjoy the feeling. Ah well. And I'm going to miss a lot of people who will be there as well.

Not that I'll have time to notice that.