Its' time for Jessica's weekly update. Yeah, I know...I'm not writing as often as I would like to. I'm going to make one excuse and that's that I've been stressed to the point of borderline burnout. This week was pretty tough. I had a lecture to give on Monday, homework due for tuesday, an editorial I thought was due on Wednesday, and research to do on Thursday so I could give the speech on Friday. On top of that, there's a live production we do at the station every semester that I'm now in charge of as the production director. So that's on my shoulders too.

Amazingly, I made it to all my classes but one. I didn't go to my last class of the week. The reason being that I simply didn't want to go. It was a long week and a boring class. I worked hard enough. I also didn't get my homework done for Tuesday in my CS class. I tried to do it, but I'm dumb and didn't write down the password to the database. So I couldn't do my homework. I started late too. Otherwise I could have gone in and gotten the password. But, I wasn't the only one to not do it. So, at least I know I'm not alone.

The lecture on Monday night was great. I had from 5:00 pm until 7:45. I took up the majority of that time. I got a great response from the class. We also watched an episode of Cartoon Network's "Codename: Kids Next Door" called Operation: F.U.T.U.R.E. Basically it's an episode filled completely and entirely with gender stereotypes. The class was really shocked by it, but seemed to enjoy it as well. I'm glad I was able to show it. After the class, several of the students, the professor, and I went out to eat. We had a great chat and I got to make some new friends.

As for my editorial, I was completely under the impression that it was due on Wednesday. However, I was wrong. It wasn't due until Monday of next week and was actually pushed back to next Wednesday. I did the assignment not realizing this. So, I guess I don't have to worry about it anymore. That's less on my chest next week.

My speech was Friday, and it went really well with only one exception. I went over the time limit by about a minute and a half. Thankfully three of us did the same thing. I had fun with the speech though. It was on the affects of Japanese animation on American Culture. I learned a lot about my favorite type of animation. People told me that I was very enthusiastic about the topic, I was well prepared, and the speech was also very extemporaneous (meaning it looked professional, didn't look like i was reading it off a page, etc). I was really happy with it.

Friday night I got off of work at 5:00 and went up the the TV studio for more work. I was shooting the live production...which turns out that it's not live this semester...for five hours. The people in charge of this had no plan whatsoever. I had to pretty much plan the whole thing and start setting it up. I've deemed myself executive producer/director for this, and they said that's fine. So, the whole hour is mine. It's great for my resume, but very difficult on my school and weekend time. After Friday night was done, we spend Saturday shooting for three more hours. At least most of the shooting is done. Now we have a week to edit everything together.

So, now we get to Claire....the verdict on her sexuality is in. Drumroll please.............she's straight. Apparently my gaydar is better than I thought. It was the mixed signals I was getting from her that was confusing. She's a really nice, intelligent girl. I'm very attracted to her, but I try not to be. We hung out a lot last night. One of the LGBT members had a birthday party. So, I gave her a ride since she doesn't have a car. It was a good bonding experience. It's weird in that sometimes I feel like she's giving me eyes, or looking at me a lot. Yet, other times, it's very clear that we are just friends. I'll be attracted to her and it's a problem since she's striaght, and then I won't be as attracted and just cool as friends. It's a little difficult to deal with. I'm managing though. I think the more time I spend with her, the easier it will get. I'm just glad we have another cool straight ally in the group.

Well, I should probably get on with my day considering it's 3:15 in the afternoon and I'm still in my pajamas. I will talk to all you cool people later. Bye.

Luv,
Jess