on classes, and the futility thereof

so i sat down and did some math, and it's entirely possible that i'm just wasting my time by taking classes. not in the sense that a degree won't do me any good, but in the sense that i may not be allowed to *get* a degree with my Prior History. so i've made an appointment with my advisor to go and talk to him about it tomorrow.
shee-it. i don't know what i'll do if i'm hosed for school. well. yes i do. i'll stay in bleaksburg for the rest of my life, never making above $30K, because i really just don't have the motivation to sit through any more generic freshman courses than i'm already going to have to. dammit. would you like some fries with that?

at this point i really just have to assume that It Will All Work Out, at least until i get to talk to my advisor tomorrow, because otherwise i won't get anything done at all today. not that i have yet anyway, but the day is young.

if i manage to take (and sufficiently pass) six hours each semester, plus three each summer session, i can have an undergrad degree by the time i'm thirty.

i've also been looking at my options, and it looks like, in addition to an english major, i can come up with either a CS minor and other minor (likely theatre), or a theatre major. some less likely alternatives include a philosophy major, an IDST (formerly LASCI) major, and various Liberal Arts And Crafts minors. i'm thinking hard about the theatre major, but i don't know that it would do me much real good. contrariwise, the CS minor would be fairly useful but a pain in the neck to get. and i can't exactly afford to screw up any courses at this point. so what i'll probably do is go ahead and declare a theatre minor so i can get into a basic theatre course, and figure out whether it's a major or minor later on.
of course, that really depends on whether the CS minor has any sort of enrollment restriction. vond? nathan? adam?

more on theatre

so i'm working on a play again, for the first time in six years. it's... interesting. it's almost nothing like working with troupe. in troupe, the focus was on the actors; lighting was whatever was set up at the time, and sets were given minimal attention. for this show there are three count 'em three actors, and an overly complex set. it's very little like working with jefferson drama, because, well, the parts of the show other than the actors & director are a huge mess being done by about five people. (as opposed to a huge mess being done by about 30 people.) (i'm not really sure which is preferable, but more workers would have gotten the set up faster.) the actors are cooler than jefferson drama actors-- they actually helped with set construction. i was both shocked and amazed... working with the dramabitches left a fairly foul taste in my mouth regarding actors.

anyway. i'm not sure whether it's nice to be back in a theatre group or not. i'm not yet sure whether i feel like i belong there. i'm also rather nervous, because they made me prop-boy... the most responsibility i've had backstage before this was making sure the water pump for the rain under the stage stayed in the bucket. and being both prop-boy AND followspot may be tricky. at least there's no followspot during act 2.