Hallooooooooooooooooo!
I am excited to unveil the list of movies I watched in June. Because it's SO LONG.
Without further delay:
23. Shorts: The Pottery Maker (5) and Cheese (4)
24. Los Muertos (5)
25. Super 8 (2)
26. Cave of Forgotten Dreams (4)
27. Buck (5)
28. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (5!)
29. The Social Network (3.5)
30. The House of Yes (4)
31. Wallace and Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death (4)
I hope to be writing little reviews of many of these films over the coming weeks, because so many of them were interesting and provocative. June was a good movie month.
However, I'll get to that later. It's been a while since I've focused on grad school-related updates, so let's do that.
I'm really pleased to have been making respectable progress on my thesis over the last few weeks. I've performed even more fancy data analyses (with some super cool findings emerging) and had some really productive meetings with my mentor, with whom I am increasingly in love because she's AMAZING. I've turned in and gotten back the second draft of my proposal, which is really exciting because JESUS I hate writing that shit but I actually did it anyway!
We're also ramping up planning of my dissertation, which is fun but also terrifying. I am very lucky to be working on it with a fellow classmate, because otherwise it would be much too much work for one person. We're doing some hardcore planning next week, which should be awesome. The more real this project gets, the more exciting it feels. It's great that we're being allowed to do something so ambitious, because in spite of being intimidating, at least it's not boring.
All of this has, of course, stalled during this past week of surgery recovery, since in spite of having continued anxiety about maintaining forward progress, it just feels somewhat irresponsible to continue playing with data and reading scientific literature while all foggy-headed. Hopefully I'll be able to resume actual work sometime this weekend, because holy shit it's already July.
I'm also starting a summer class in neuropsychological assessment next week (i.e., something bad happened to your brain, so we should figure out what it can still do), which will please my dad. He is privy to how much money people make doing that kind of work, and has emphasized repeatedly the (monetary) value of acquiring such skills. Since clinical psychology is not a field where people typically make bazillions (definitely more of a "virtue is its own reward" kind of profession), it would be nice to have the option to do a little work on the side that would actually pay the rent eventually. And like... help send eventual babies to college. If I'm lucky.
After class, Boyfriend and I have got a trip or two planned in August, which will be very welcome breaks but also speedbumps in my research progress. So this whole "maintaining forward progress" thing is pretty critical at this juncture. Hopefully my body will start cooperating sometime in the (very) near future.
Further updates to come!
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PS: As always, following my blog is very much appreciated for the vote of confidence/small ego boost it obviously is. I'd love it if you would!
we must fight over super 8. It'll be fun. annnnnnd go!
ReplyDeleteSo ya, I liked super 8 i'd give it a 4. for several reasons. omg an alien movie?! ya well: kids. and you know, I don't like kids, but yet the thing that i enjoyed the most about this movie was: kids. The group of them weren't your average, I'm the fat one I must be a big dummy I'm the wild one I must be the ladies man. No. The fat one was a movie director trying to win a competition for making zombie movies A, yes. love it, B really gave him dimension while he was a side character. The wild one was good lord he was wild, made an excellent zombie and was a chicken despite his lust for exploding things. The fact that the main character in the opening scenes loses his mother to the most normal thing's you can fathom in a alien movie, good job.
I loved the heck out of it, some people complained about length, I had no issues. There was one scene where i was like mm, bad which was the them being attacked on a bus scream scream escape and oh... hey look we are back at this bus for this locket and ya giant angry monster isn't here anymore? bad call. I dunno the alien to me was secondary, the movie was about he kids who were filming during some crazy nonsense in a perfectly logical way cause we'll we'd have to pay bajillions for a train crash and LOOK, here it is. Also, I love the train crash scene I dunno, maybe people focus on what the movie was about ie: monsters rrrrrr, but I really just could not get over what a good plot they had going with the variety of run of the mill children. It was a plot within a plot within a larger plot. Dimension /faint.
but anyway
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ReplyDeleteThank you for your comment! I am absolutely drafting a response. I definitely invite movie counter-opinions. :)