"Is that Sean Penn?! Oh no, it's a tree."

Have I mentioned Reed is photogenic? It is terribly photogenic. Hence why they occasionally film sections of movies here. They were filming one earlier this year with Morgan Freeman (note the filming locations, all in the immediate area), now there are film crews around for another, directed by Sean Penn. It is called Into the Wild, which I think is a lame title, and is about getting back to nature or something. They were calling for extras in a crowd scene to be filmed next Saturday, but I decided I will go on a trip to see the biennial at Portland Art Museum instead; it sounded like you had to sit around wearing smart casual pastels (to simulate a Southern summer) all day long, not very interesting. We have been walking around looking at members of the film crews to see if we can identify any of them as Sean Penn, but no luck so far: "Ooh look, Sean Penn oh no it's just a grumpy-looking guy."

In other news: I have dropped a Lit class so in theory my workload should be lighter. Free Verse was getting severely tedious, we kept having to do things like count stresses and measure out the clitic phrases in various lines of poetry, (and I still don't know exactly what that means, but it sounds kind of rude). I had a good day in art class, the teacher kept singling out my drawings to talk about to the rest of the class. She also said something about my having a dynamic, dramatic line. I said I was just impatient, and she said that was ok because life was filled with impatience; I can't lose!