I could not have asked for more from this week. For quite a while, I've been feeling really insecure about whether I belong in film school. After all, I didn't spend my teen years making movies with my friends, or locked up in my room writing scripts, or watching foreign film or even worshipping Spielberg (b/c I'm not Dawson).

And when you spend your time in class with people who did one if not two or three of the above-mentioned, it can be a little intimidating. Film programs aren't like other programs. Sure, I have to write papers. But more importantly, I have to create a significant body of work. Did you catch that? Create.

OK, so back to how I've been feeling lately...this semester I have to make a documentary and write a script. I know that's only two things, but trust me it's a lot. So when things went well on Monday in my doc class I was pretty psyched. But the biggest obstacle this week was that I had to do a script reading. On the first script I've ever written. Well, the first 15 pages of the first script I've ever written.

And you know what? It went great. I was pretty nervous, because I wasn't feeling super confident about what I'd written, but it was really positively received. Yay!

I know it probably sounds like I'm just being full of myself, but I don't really care. It's my blog and I'll brag if I want to.

Besides, I really needed this week.

Today, I finally succeeded in my goal for several weeks now: to get up at 8 and go for a run before work.

Now, you might be saying to yourself - 'what's so hard about that? I get up at 6:30 every morning and run five miles, make a protein shake, go to the orphanage and read to the kids all before going to work.' And if you're saying that yourself as you read this...we probably aren't friends. But congratulations.

When you're a grad student, your schedule gets a little funny. And summer break exacerbates the problem. I find myself staying up until 2 or 3 in the morning, struggling to get out of bed at 9.

Well not today. Today, I got up at 8. I went for a run. A longer one than usual. (and then gave myself a pat on the back) I was so awake and fast moving when I got home that I had time to make oatmeal for breakfast instead of my usual cold cereal. But the productivity doesn't stop there. After work I went to the library, grabbed lunch, laid out for a bit in the backyard, read some, did laundry and some bleaching I've been meaning to do (I'll post about that later) and tidied my room a little bit. And now it's 4 and I'm wondering what to do with myself for the rest of the day.

Maybe a bike ride? Maybe a trip to Home Depot for some wood for a project I want to do. Who knows. The world (or rather, the greater Salt Lake area) is my oyster today.

Maybe you noticed some changes around here. Maybe you read this on a feed and don't even see the layout. If so, this doesn't really apply to you (looking at you, Kristy).

I kind of nerded out and redesigned my blog layout from scratch. And by from scratch I mean that I did some major modifications (in html) to a free template. So...it's more like Semi-Homemade I guess.

Still.

Web design (and design in general), has always been really interesting to me, but I've never taken the time to learn any of it until now. I definitely learned a lot by trial and error putting the new layout together, but I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.

I've had a couple crazy weekends that I can't wait to share, but for now, it's time to catch up 30 Rock on Hulu.



*I can't believe I just had to create a 'nerd' label...I'd have thought I already had one.