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trinityvixenOkay, retyped this because the computer thought it would be better if it shut off right as I got to the end
Co-Ed Naked Blood Wrestling was Friday, the second annual co-ed naked blood wrestling, I should say. CUSFS has a hit with this, and the Fed's got pretty good at being a sponsoring partner for it, too (they must have sold quite a few t-shirts). I wanted to wrestle Kate Sullivan, but she only made it into the pool once. Despite it not really being 'naked' (scantily clad yes, naked no), several girls ended up showing a tad more than they'd intended or been signed on for, myself included. I should have gone with the bra and underwear, my bikini is just not built to put up with the stress of someone or somepeople wrestling with me in a pool of water and chocolate+strawberry syrup.
Still, for a first timer, I had a blast. I wrestled Carrie into submission in my first match. God, it's hard to do! It's so slick in the pool with the 'blood' and there's no way to get a purchase, and I might have been the hand's down winner (especially since I had to put pieces of myself back in place and only did so AFTER standing up), but I had a hard enough time of it. Carrie challenged Lizza to a remathc, which was classy, seeing as they have that now-infmous Fed picture of them from the inaugural event. I got in again to back up Lisa R and another girl against a guy who just creamed us (ow, my arm, man did he twist it the wrong way), then the three girls had at each other when the guy got disqualified for putting a hand outside the pool. Then the pool sprang a leak at the end, thus ending the event in plenty of time to comply with the administration's demands we be off of Low Plaza by midnight. Walking home in my robe and towel, wet and sticky, wasn't any worse than walking there--NYC is the greatest: no one looks twice at you when you walk down the street in flip flops and a bathrobe! I can't wait for next year
Okay, I should have prepared more. I also should not have co-ed naked blood wrestled the night before I had to be up and downtown by 9:30 am, but whatever. I made a short presentation on mitochondria as my 'sample lesson'--it's really hard to pick something I could teach about in only 5 minutes, which is all they gave. I probably shouldn't have been watching Dawn of the Dead while I worked, but eh, I practiced to be sure I was under and that's about it. As was, I was the only one presenting on science of any kind, so I got plenty of blank stares when I assumed familiarity with ATP, the Citric Acid Cycle, etc etc. The reviewer who interviewed me in a group and personally was a science teacher who previously worked on the lunar landing module for the Apollo missions. That was keen! He liked my presentation, which was nice as he was the only one I trust understood any of it. He asked me a few questions that were off the interview script, which I took as a good sign--they really do this whole selection thing as efficiently as possible, so for him to squeeze in even a couple of questions about Australia (I mentioned visiting there), I figure that means he was impressed. It's nice to know that I'm a fairly qualified candidate for a position that they have a huge need of teachers for--science--even if I probably won't accept it if I'm even offered the position. I plan to mention this when I finally get back to my bitchy aunt--tell her that her e-mail response was delayed because, oh, I'm sooooo busy, and I was preparing for an interview for a position where I was highly qualified and sought after (what she doesn't know won't hurt her). It will be nice to return the favor and be like I DON'T HAVE TIME FOR YOU NOW! HA!
Ahem.
So, I finally tested out the River TV set up with my PS2. Not only does my dorm have the largest TV ever in its basement lounge (which I'd also like to state is highly-zombie proof: accessible by elevator only, many heavy doors, emergency exit, barred windows, candy/soda machines, computer for outside contact), but the TV rolls and has every port you might need to connect any AV device out there. Hooking up the PS2 was easier than working any other setup with a TV I've ever tried to use. Carrie and I then decimated ancient China on a huge-ass screen in a huge-ass fashion. I've decided that some time during finals or something there needs to be an all-night rapage of ancient China, to which Carrie has vigorously responded, and I will make more announcements of later. Ooh for more gaming on that screen....*drools*
Now I must start thinking more seriously about what to write my next horror paper on. I'm supposed to move outside of the class discussions more. I've chosen Invasion of the Body Snatchers and 28 Days Later as my foci, and I want to compare the two films' treatment of the military in each. I could have done Night of the Living Dead and 28 Days Later which both fairly obviously make the military/militant gun nuts the human survivors' enemy, but they're too closely related. No zombie movie exists after Night that doesn't owe a lot to that film (the most recent Dawn of the Dead being one of them), so comparing 28 Days Later to it would be sort of like trying to explain why all those other asshole red-and-green-blotched apples are different from macintoshes. Body Snatchers makes effective zombies of people, but there's enough difference that I can work with it. I'm also going to see if I can get information on the film minus its framing story--the frame story has the hero telling what's happened in a long flash-back that is the movie, and the military is going to save the day. Supposedly, this was forced onto the film to make it happier and more hopeful, but that it was later re-released without it (or the remake doesn't have it). I could also contrast that framing device with the one used by Dawn of the Dead in its beginning/ending credits. I have to figure out what makes a more interesting topic. Opinions? Should it be: A) Conflicting representations of the military as savior/destructor or B) The evolution of the frame story in horror cinema. The last one is really too large for a small paper, but it's really, really interesting. I might save it for my fourth paper and finally get to talk about the horror prologue, something I've been thinking about forever, since he first mentioned it in class...hmm....damn it's due Tuesday.....
Co-Ed Naked Blood Wrestling was Friday, the second annual co-ed naked blood wrestling, I should say. CUSFS has a hit with this, and the Fed's got pretty good at being a sponsoring partner for it, too (they must have sold quite a few t-shirts). I wanted to wrestle Kate Sullivan, but she only made it into the pool once. Despite it not really being 'naked' (scantily clad yes, naked no), several girls ended up showing a tad more than they'd intended or been signed on for, myself included. I should have gone with the bra and underwear, my bikini is just not built to put up with the stress of someone or somepeople wrestling with me in a pool of water and chocolate+strawberry syrup.
Still, for a first timer, I had a blast. I wrestled Carrie into submission in my first match. God, it's hard to do! It's so slick in the pool with the 'blood' and there's no way to get a purchase, and I might have been the hand's down winner (especially since I had to put pieces of myself back in place and only did so AFTER standing up), but I had a hard enough time of it. Carrie challenged Lizza to a remathc, which was classy, seeing as they have that now-infmous Fed picture of them from the inaugural event. I got in again to back up Lisa R and another girl against a guy who just creamed us (ow, my arm, man did he twist it the wrong way), then the three girls had at each other when the guy got disqualified for putting a hand outside the pool. Then the pool sprang a leak at the end, thus ending the event in plenty of time to comply with the administration's demands we be off of Low Plaza by midnight. Walking home in my robe and towel, wet and sticky, wasn't any worse than walking there--NYC is the greatest: no one looks twice at you when you walk down the street in flip flops and a bathrobe! I can't wait for next year
Okay, I should have prepared more. I also should not have co-ed naked blood wrestled the night before I had to be up and downtown by 9:30 am, but whatever. I made a short presentation on mitochondria as my 'sample lesson'--it's really hard to pick something I could teach about in only 5 minutes, which is all they gave. I probably shouldn't have been watching Dawn of the Dead while I worked, but eh, I practiced to be sure I was under and that's about it. As was, I was the only one presenting on science of any kind, so I got plenty of blank stares when I assumed familiarity with ATP, the Citric Acid Cycle, etc etc. The reviewer who interviewed me in a group and personally was a science teacher who previously worked on the lunar landing module for the Apollo missions. That was keen! He liked my presentation, which was nice as he was the only one I trust understood any of it. He asked me a few questions that were off the interview script, which I took as a good sign--they really do this whole selection thing as efficiently as possible, so for him to squeeze in even a couple of questions about Australia (I mentioned visiting there), I figure that means he was impressed. It's nice to know that I'm a fairly qualified candidate for a position that they have a huge need of teachers for--science--even if I probably won't accept it if I'm even offered the position. I plan to mention this when I finally get back to my bitchy aunt--tell her that her e-mail response was delayed because, oh, I'm sooooo busy, and I was preparing for an interview for a position where I was highly qualified and sought after (what she doesn't know won't hurt her). It will be nice to return the favor and be like I DON'T HAVE TIME FOR YOU NOW! HA!
Ahem.
So, I finally tested out the River TV set up with my PS2. Not only does my dorm have the largest TV ever in its basement lounge (which I'd also like to state is highly-zombie proof: accessible by elevator only, many heavy doors, emergency exit, barred windows, candy/soda machines, computer for outside contact), but the TV rolls and has every port you might need to connect any AV device out there. Hooking up the PS2 was easier than working any other setup with a TV I've ever tried to use. Carrie and I then decimated ancient China on a huge-ass screen in a huge-ass fashion. I've decided that some time during finals or something there needs to be an all-night rapage of ancient China, to which Carrie has vigorously responded, and I will make more announcements of later. Ooh for more gaming on that screen....*drools*
Now I must start thinking more seriously about what to write my next horror paper on. I'm supposed to move outside of the class discussions more. I've chosen Invasion of the Body Snatchers and 28 Days Later as my foci, and I want to compare the two films' treatment of the military in each. I could have done Night of the Living Dead and 28 Days Later which both fairly obviously make the military/militant gun nuts the human survivors' enemy, but they're too closely related. No zombie movie exists after Night that doesn't owe a lot to that film (the most recent Dawn of the Dead being one of them), so comparing 28 Days Later to it would be sort of like trying to explain why all those other asshole red-and-green-blotched apples are different from macintoshes. Body Snatchers makes effective zombies of people, but there's enough difference that I can work with it. I'm also going to see if I can get information on the film minus its framing story--the frame story has the hero telling what's happened in a long flash-back that is the movie, and the military is going to save the day. Supposedly, this was forced onto the film to make it happier and more hopeful, but that it was later re-released without it (or the remake doesn't have it). I could also contrast that framing device with the one used by Dawn of the Dead in its beginning/ending credits. I have to figure out what makes a more interesting topic. Opinions? Should it be: A) Conflicting representations of the military as savior/destructor or B) The evolution of the frame story in horror cinema. The last one is really too large for a small paper, but it's really, really interesting. I might save it for my fourth paper and finally get to talk about the horror prologue, something I've been thinking about forever, since he first mentioned it in class...hmm....damn it's due Tuesday.....
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Date: 2004-03-29 06:50 am (UTC)Have you ever considered putting in asian horror films into your papers? or would that be considered outside the scope of the class? I know in the way of zombies, asian horror doesn't always provide much useful material (though ghost stories abound). Still a bit of east meets west horror analysis might prove interesting should you choose to try it.