I've been totally meaning to update since the end of March, but now it's almost the end of April, and I'm behind in my updating, so here's the bullet points of important things that have happened/are happening in my life:

-school.  It's started back up.
-I did improv for the first time ever!  In my anthropology class and I did this scene in the improv game 'Freeze' where I changed the scene so I found someone's contact that they lost and the teacher mentioned how all improv people do contact scenes.  So, yay!  (It's still quite hard--you have to agree with whatever the other person says, even if it's zany, and you have to add on more information, and keep the scene going with a nice flow.)  It also takes a lot of imagination, and it doesn't help when other people ask you questions because it just puts more pressure on the other person to even come up with an answer.
-another fun thing about the anthropology improv class: we watched a clip of Whose Line Is It Anyway.  And it's actually relevant to the class.  That is cool
-we also do games from WLiiA!  Which is expected, because, improv.  The other group (the group I wasn't in, a.k.a. the other half of the class) did the game where three people were assigned a random character and trait and the person guessing had to host a party.
-European Studies senior thesis.  Ugh.  My thesis has changed so much, but it still has to do with knights, chivalry, and the crusades, but still.  I'm feeling totally overwhelmed by this thesis.
-so totally overwhelmed I decided to drop my beginning production film class that I didn't need at all to graduate so I can concentrate on doing well in my other classes (and in European Studies)
-fencing.  It wasn't canceled--more people showed up than there had been on the registrar (than people who had registered?  IDK this sentence makes no sense.  I'm tired.  Basically, fencing is fun and I always freak out about insignificant funny stuff like 'will fencing be canceled?')
-UCI has a woman's rugby team.  I know because I checked out both of their practices on Tuesday and Thursday last week and didn't much like it.  I thought it would be more fun and we would play the game.  Instead it was more fitness/boot camp exercising and I don't have the endurance to run a lap unless I want to run a lap.  (Basically, I don't like people telling me when to exercise and how fast I should run.)  So I decided to drop it.  (Or just stop going to the practices.)  In a funny way, this past Wednesday night I stayed after fencing class to check out the club and I liked their club a whole lot better.  There was slightly less emphasis on fitness and more emphasis on footwork because fencing is all about fancy footwork

Anyway, other than school, something else happened.  Well, a couple weeks ago.  On Easter.  I know I mentioned the Anaheim Wondercon convention on my journal last month.  It was the one that was going to have the Much Ado About Nothing panel.

Okay, the main point: I saw Joss Whedon live!  And Agent Coulson/Clark Gregg, Sean Maher, Tom Lenk, and a bunch of other people from the film.  Sadly I didn't have a good view of them--I mean I could see them, but I was so far away that I just mostly saw the people on the screen that they had up to make seeing them easier.  As such, it still didn't feel like I was seeing them live, because I was mostly relying on looking at the screen to see Joss Whedon and Clark Gregg.

But I was in the same room as them!  Along with a thousand other people probably.  I really wish they held an autograph session afterwards but it undoubtedly would have been a catastrophe.  I'll just settle with the fact that I got as close to Joss Whedon as I could (which was about a mile away, maybe half a mile).

The panel was good.  We saw clips from the film and it only made me more eager about seeing the film in June.  (And it makes me want to re-read the play now.)

Sadly Nathan Fillion wasn't at the panel.  (I'm not sure if I saw him live or not.  I remember there was this Firefly convention a couple years back that I went to and I think Nathan was there.  I didn't meet him though.)  Joss Whedon had to break the news that he wasn't there and the way that man presented it was just funny.  Because, you know, Joss Whedon is just naturally funny/sarcastic (almost) in his humor.

(At one point during the panel people from the audience were allowed to ask Joss and co. questions and one of the people that came up addressed him as Josh Whedon.  When he did so, you could hear a groan ripple throughout the audience, because he got Joss' name wrong.)

I took some pictures, which I'll probably upload.  It depends on when I get around to that.

In other completely different yet slightly similar news because it involves seeing celebrities, I'm going to a taping of Whose Line on Sunday!  (I think I'm starting to like living near LA.  And when I mean 'near' I mean about an hour away.  I live closer to Disneyland.  Yet I never go there anymore lol)

Anyway, to get back on topic: I'll be driving again to LA.  For those of you who don't know (which could be the vast majority of you) I don't do well with driving freeways.  I think in the past it just seemed a bit too claustrophobic at times, especially when there's a traffic jam and you're just surrounded by cars.  And I don't like the sign system sometimes--it's too confusing.  The GPS makes driving freeways a whole lot easier because it's the GPS and it directs you.  So that's a nice thing to have when driving the freeways in LA.  But anyway, lately I've been getting better at driving the freeway and that fear has gone away, mostly.  So yay about that.

I may also be going back to LA on Friday the 26th--I need to go to the LA museum of arts for my art history class and that day the TCM (Turner Classic Movie) film festival is taking place.  They'll be showing The Great Escape (in digital form) at the Chinese Theatre at 5:30 PM and, according to the festival website, some tickets are on sale to the general public for films.  So I'm just thinking of checking it out and seeing if I can't get a ticket.  Because it's cheaper than buying a pass.  And if so then yay!  If not, then at least I'll get the art history trip to the museum over with early.

Ugh I can't think of anything else to add to this post -_- I've been horrible at updating.  Life is just busy and I've been too concerned with school to even think about fandoms and land comms.

Too tired.  Think I'll go to bed now.  Or at least finish reading for a class and then maybe finish watching this film I got called Wings of Desire.  It's this German film about angels in Berlin and it stars Bruno Ganz, and Peter Falk as himself :D (that was the main reason why I got it).  Speaking of Peter Falk, one of the deals of the day on Amazon was the complete series of Columbo--it was 62% off, so instead of it being $149 it was $56.  I bought it.  Because, dude, 62% is a pretty good deal and IDK if it would have gone any higher than that.  Besides, it was the deal of the day :D so yay!  I can't wait to get Columbo.