had to leave class early because I was ill :/

it was class with Rob Ritchie too

Rob Ritchie

he’s such a badass, he once let a fight almost break out in his classroom because it “was an excellent example of conflict and resolution”

seriously

and I missed half of his class because I was sick

HOW DEPRESSING IS THAT

and I couldn’t go out for drinks / to watch Life of Pi with my coursemates because I was sick

goddammit I wanted to see Life of Pi again ughhh

w h y

Jesus. I’ve been in the library for 7 hours and I am nowhere near done.

I have, however:
- Read a great deal about the conventions of Film Noir,
- Researched the Hays Code (censorship brought in around 1934 that Film Noir had to adhere to)
- Started developing Robert Striker, my P.I.
- Started lightly researching Cincinnati

… Still need to come up with a plot and write 10 decent pages, though. Has to be done tonight, since I’ve got to redraft it and send it out to my entire course at 5 tomorrow.
Fuckkkkk.
Can someone come over here and bring me dinner? :/

Yeah, so, I’m getting ill. Milady has been sick for a while and I’m getting the same thing she’s had, with the coughing and the phlegm and the dizziness and YAY. Which means that I can’t do the pirate reenactment on Saturday, probably. Being ill is dumb. I’m not really the sickly type, tbh - but I know that my throat is going to be totally shot by the weekend. Hnng.

This has vaguely put off the planned update of VH, but I have made progress and things are a bit faster with writing now. I literally just jotted down two pages of dialogue / bits of prose from a particular section that I’ve been struggling with (and by literally, I mean ‘within the last 10 minutes’), so that chapter will hopefully be finished in the near future.

IDEALLY I’ll have it done between today and Sunday-ish, depending on how it goes. So, uh, yeah. I’m just gonna lie in bed with my notebook and my leopard for a while.