FST 201 Blog

Next semester I plan on working full time and school full time like I did for this semester. Its been extremely hard to try and balance work, school, and life just in general. Now that I have done it all for one semester, I feel like I can do it all over again but have a better grasp on things. I plan on taking mostly film classes because that’s all I really need to graduate. However, I am finding it difficult to get into those classes because they all filled up within a matter of minutes. I had no chance. It’s frustrating to know that all I need is film course and I can’t get into them. I keep trying and refreshing the Registar page in hopes that maybe someone will end up dropping a class. I am optimistic that everything will work out. It is just nerve racking right now.

So for the Cucalorus film festival, I went to go see a couple of shows that weren’t film related that I ended up really enjoying. This first one of those shows was the comedy show at Dead Crow Comedy Club. Mo Alexander was the headliner for the show. Before Mo went on, there were a few others before him. Two of the performers were from Canada and both were obsessed with the fact that this was where Dawsons Creek was filmed. The other performer was from here. He actually was named Port City’s Best Comic and was extremely funny. After that Mo went on to perform and the jokes were just as hilarious. He was a bit drunk when he went on which made things even funnier and he interacted with the crowd a lot which was awesome. After the show had ended, my boyfriend and I ended up at the PsyloJo concert. They were performing at the Whiskey. The was nice and they were a Phish cover band. I grew up listening to Phish, so it was a nice ending to a really cool night.   One of the shorts th...