Already Ready

I spent most of the afternoon making my scene breakdowns for Thoroughly Modern Millie. I'll be the SM under Mr. Disney. I'm keeping an open mind: I mean, I don't like the show (vapid musical, le gasp), but maybe I'll have a fantastic time. That's my terminal optimism rearing its ugly head. Even though things usually happen on the negative side of the median, I usually believe that they will turn out okay.

Anyway, made new forms and all that jazz, so I feel accomplished.

A few words on Mr. Disney. This is his first year at Shorter and I haven't done a whole lot of research into his past. I hear that he's directed tons and lived in a lot of places. Okay. He's married, but his wife is elsewhere. He has been instrumental in support of student-run groups (like This, That, and the Other and Alpha Psi Omega), but he's unpopular with a lot of students. Why? Because they all happen to be failing his classes.

From what I can gather, about half of his Movement class is failing due to his incredibly rigid attendance policy. Said policy is that if you are three seconds late, you are absent for the entire class. Since almost half the grade for the class (which I managed to find in the nearly twelve page syllabus) is participation and attendance, this can make the quasi-slacker fail. I mean, if that were the attendance policy for my Mythological Structure seminar, I'd have been present exactly three times. However, I understand, that since he is almost entirely teaching freshmen, that he is trying to instill punctuality into them.

But, I don't know if I could pass that class. Because life happens. And how shitty is that?