Mah Mooses and UVU don't want to play nice together.

So it's been a while since I did anything on here. I'm still feeling that flicker in my left eye that is driving me mental. Maybe I just have to come to terms that it's been seven years since I had my eyes tested and that perhaps I don't have 20/20 vision anymore. Rah. Or it could just mean that my constantly viewing a computor screen watching the test takers and idiots yawning, stretching and testing at work,copy-editing, editing and all the homework and reading I have to do for school are all just building up a small bubble of pressure that will pop sometimes soon. Add to this the stress of building a portfolio for a deadline that fell on today, and I was in need of a break by the third week of school.

Anyway We spent the last three days in Midway. Midway from Orem to Park City and just about the most perfect place (except for home with family) I could have been. Well Jill, Dustin and Ella came with us and we played games every night and finally played the Mr. and Mrs Game Jodi Bought us for Christmas. And it was Fun with a Capital. I felt relaxed for a bit, which was good as it prepared me for this week which is going to be hectic to say the least.

This week will include the following.

Nightmare Mansion. I've been waiting for this for ages. Can't wait to be freaked out. Lydia told me she's writing about a haunted house she took her dad to when she was 14 over in London. Sounds like it could be really funny.

A friend is making us dinner this week with some professional stuff he uses for work. It's kind of like a tuppaware thing but without the pressure to buy.

Copy editing the UVU Review will be hectic this week with two issues going out within a couple of days. Well Hectic. I gotta e-mail Kyle to see if he can come in extra time.

Journalism workshops that the UVU Review is paying for me to go to. This should be really interesting and I should get dinner and a continental breakfast out of it too. Yayyy. Hurrah for UVU Review. I really appreciate it.
Also, I think I want to carve our pumpkin this week sometime, but the timing is going to be difficult. This might happen on Saturday.

So I saw this thing on someone elses Blog and thought it would be interesting to figure it out. I actually did it more than a month ago and am only just getting round to putting it up. Check out the next post for my life according to Nerina Pallot.

The cult of Colt not working as a comedy?

So severeal things have been on my mind recently.
1. The Cult of Lydia Colt was not working as a comedy. I've tried to rework it as a black comedy and this seems to be faring a bit better. In its current form, i'll be able to talk about Greek mythology and the philosophies of Death and Madness within the Phaedo/Phaedrus concept and through this was born my use of newly created Villains to Lydia's Anti-hero. The two villains in question are the twin Gods Hy-hy and Thana and will be causing most of the death and destruction through out the novella. These two are the children of the gods of night and Dark, and are themselves the god and godess of Death and Sleep.

Hy-hy is the God of sleep. She takes the form of a young blonde haired Harajuku girl and will be crazy through lack of sleep. This she does vicariously through her followers or cult members who are waning due to issues that will be revealed later. Thana is her brother and is the god of death. Thana also lives vicariously through his own cult members and followers who are always dissapearing as..they die. His power is always fleeting as his cult is always shrinking.

They both believe that Lydia's cult is taking power away from their own, so they decide to kill her. Lydia takes flight as she is not powerful enough to take on two Gods at a time. She decides that the more cult members she can gain, the more powerful she will become. She seeks out her long lost son whom she fathered with a human woman, just like her own father Zeus did with her mother. Lydia is of course the walking latterday representation of Dyonisus. Craziness and death ensue. I've yet to come up with the finale but it's coming.

2. The UVU Review. I'm really enjoying working on the newspaer. I've a lot to learn about copy editing which is my job there but I think I'm getting better. I need to be able to work better with the other copy editors. While one of them is great and helps me figure things out a lot I feel the other is no help at all in getting things done in time for deadlines. This stresses me out because this automatically means I have to be even more vigilant abot mistakes getting through as I've had to go and redo the stories that that individual has already copy-edited. MAH MAHHHH! Anyway I love the people on the paper, and the E-I-C has been really helpful in letting me know exactly what I need to do and the ways in which she wants things done, which may sound annoying but as the middle man said, Specificity is the soul of all good communication.
Also as an aside, the articles that I have been writing for the review as Lydia Colt, have caused me no end of laughter. I'm in stitches with every themed issue of The V. Check her out at www.uvureview.com

3. Virgin Cocktail. This story was inspired by the 35 Albino slayings this year in Tanzania and Certain parts of Africa. All these bodyparts are being used for Black magic and voodoo as goodluck charms and other witch carft. I was thinking about how I could bring that to a fresher more local location and write about a voodoo Priestess who lives just down the road and how she would do business in a small bubbled LDS culture location. The results are bloodier, sicker and more twisted than I've been able to dream up in a long time. My main goal is for unsettling, the other goal is for a cool circular type of story that has a nice set of twists and an ending that goes against the grain and ends badly for the innocent. All this on top of The review, Film theory class in which I still have to watch the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and the slight annoyance of editing class and i'm kept nicely busy.