Catholic in Film School

That’s exactly what I said to myself this morning as I was looking at my ICal (the calendar on Mac computers) and realized that as of tomorrow, Lent is one week away.
Do you know what you’re giving up?
I shun the idea of “giving something up.” I think it’s great if it works [...]

I wanna go. I wanna go SOOOOO bad.
The first-ever exclusively pro-life Cinema Vita Film Festival is coming soon to a theatre near you. Well, not really since it’s in San Franfreako, but it’s undeniably awesome that the New Evangelization is spreading out and sprouting up.
The festival is during my spring break, so I’m going [...]

So.
I’ve been slacking lately. I’m still trying to wrap my head around my new schedule—I have class both in the morning and at night and I’m working about 25 hours a week in addition to my various activities on campus. I got really sick last Thursday from a mixture of exhaustion and food poisoning [...]

As I’m sure you know, today is the 35th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade.
Over the weekend, I went to the Respect Life mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels with a group of folks from school. It was a beautiful service (save the prancing liturgical dancers), and Cardinal Mahoney’s homily was [...]

I just finished listening to the Hands and Feet Show episode #89 “Whiskey You’re the Devil!” in which they tackled the topic of alcohol and drinking. The show was very well done, and it got me to thinking about my own struggle with alcohol and drinking that I am now going to share with you.
The [...]

Just some general housekeeping:
I know I said that I was going to go see “Noelle” and report back, but by the time I had some time to go to the movies alone, it had been taken out of the theaters! I’m not really surprised, given that it opened Dec. 7th with 204 theaters at [...]

The LA Times published an article a few days ago about the emerging voice of men who have suffered the trauma of abortions:
[Jason] Baier, 36, still longs for the child who might have been, with an intensity that bewilders him: “How can I miss something I never even held?”
These days, he channels the grief into [...]

So this Christmas was probably the best ever. Why? Because my mom gave me a substantial amount of money to buy a camera, and not just any old camera, a 3 chip camera. For you non-film school geeks, it’s the type of camera the professionals use. As a matter of fact, I believe I’ve seen [...]

How was it? What’d you do?
I spent the evening in the Gaslamp Quarter (a fun place to visit if you ever come to San Diego) with one of my girlfriends until a little after 1 a.m. Then we went to hang out with some very handsome and very well-mannered Marines at their apartment on base, [...]