Writing, Returning to School, Etc.

Well, I finally put up another article over at Steam-Vents, which I haven't done for months. Our writing staff kind of wandered off, so we have to get some new people, but Adam's plenty enthusiastic enough to get new people who will be willing to pitch in and participate. As the chief Editor, I just hope the new batch spells, punctuates, and conjugates English verbs better than the last one.

Aside from writing a pretty lengthy an in-depth review on both Guy Ritchie's film Sherlock Holmes and James Cameron's Avatar, I managed to get another chapter finished for deAngelis, which is nothing to sneer at. I'm into chapter twelve or so, barely halfway into the story I believe, and the story is already rocking out at 45,000 words. The bad news is that I'm coming up on some plot points that I'm going to have to write completely from scratch, and I'm afraid that I'll fall behind again, especially with the work load that this semester's classes promise to shove upon me.

Here's the classes that I'll be taking this spring semester:

1. US History to 1877. The professor who teaches this is actually the sponsor for the Role Players Guild on campus, of which I'm the secretary and the house officer (the combination of the two offices results in the title of "PR Bitch"). He's a pretty cool guy, with a dry sense of humor that I definitely appreciate, and I know he's enthusiastic about the class, so this really shouldn't be any trouble, especially because it's a 200-level class.
2. Directing. This is one of those classes that I'm dreading. I have to take it if I want to finish out my theater minor, but I really wish I didn't. It's taught by the former head of the theater department. He's strict and thinks that theater, and his class, are the most important things on the entire earth. Obviously I don't agree, but what can you do?
3. Modern American Lit. And by "modern", I mean every from WWII to the present day. The reading list isn't too bad, but the responses that we'll have to prepare for every class may just wipe me out.
4. Multicultural American Lit. How this is different from the above, I have no clue, but it says I have to take it, so I guess I'm gonna.
5. Theater Theory. My advisor told me I shouldn't take this class until I'm a senior, but since I'm (hopefully) transferring to IUPUI next fall, I decided that it really doesn't matter. Also I just don't like my advisor.
6. Advanced Creative Writing Workshop. This is essentially what I took this past semester. It's three hours long and one night a week, but I don't mind, because it's actually a fun class. Let's just hope that a massive bout of writer's block doesn't hit me mid-semester.
7. Women's Choir. This actually is a zero-credit class, and I joined it because I miss singing. I don't think  it's anything more than just singing (no final, no classwork, no homework, etc.), so hopefully it will just feel like an extracurricular.

Shyeah... I have a full workload this semester. And that's if I didn't have a novel I was trying to finish at record speed.

On top of this I have my Dungeons & Dragons 4th ed game that I'm running (kind of), and preparations to try and transfer the hell out of Terrible Terre Haute. Also, at some point, I probably ought to take my PRAXIS I, ya think?

Time to do a little crochet and watch some more anime. Going to be a long day tomorrow... sigh.