In Maine, At Work With My Sister

So I'm in Maine, and since everyone I know here is either in college or working today, I had nothing to do. So I decided to go with my sister Sarah to work. She works for a guy who owns an leases properties in Maine, and has an office in City Center, in portland. It's really a neat office. I'm sort of helping out in an attempt to save myself from boredom. Even though I wouldn't mind helping... it's like take your brother to work day.

Oddly enough, I saw The Devil Wears Prada for the first time the other night, and enjoyed it. Both Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway give excellent preformances, (although I feel like Hathaway is playing the same type of character that she played in "The Princess Diaries"

NOTE- I didn't post this entry until Feb 9th, because I forgot I had saved it as a draft.

A Week Of Defense

So this week has been really messed up. I don't even know where to begin. But let's put it this way--I've been fighting all week and I can't believe I'm still going.

I had to defend myself against a vandalism allegation from Emerson College (charges dropped)

Then I had to fight Bank of America to stop them from raping me with fees (Still in progress)

And today I had to go to traffic court and fight a speeding ticket. (I was not successful in dismissing the ticket, but I reduced the fine by 85 dollars. It's now only 100 dollars.

Well, what else?

I'm in maine and I'll still be in Maine until Sunday. I'm going to hang out with my sister, Sarah and my friends Tanner and Zak. Hopefully I will do well at my EVVYs audition when I get back. However, I really think I screwed it up because I upset the Executive producers. Hopefully they will not hold anything against me. I've wanted to host the EVVY Awards since I was a prospective student. I could do a really good job too, and this is my last chance.

We'll see.

I'm pretty tired, and the workload this semester is going to be pretty heavy as usual. However, this year, I'm going to try and do better!

CMYK Teaser Clip Reel

Watch this! I Assistant Directed this! It was three hard intense weekends, but watching this footage makes it all worth it.



As a side note, at 0:42 seconds you can see my small cameo in the film as a bored high school student. I'm in a red jacket almost center frame.

Let me know what you think!

Okay, Sorry. Christmas Time Is Here!

Well, I actually feel a little bit into the Holiday Spirit this year. Last night I went to the tree lighting ceremony on Boston Common. It was great. We counted down the 10 seconds before the tree lit up, and when it did, the lights were beautiful. They had a small fireworks array that shot up from near the base of the tree, and all I could think about was,

"I hope the tree catches on fire so it'd be a real 'lighting' ceremony"

Obviously that did not happen.

For those of you who don't know, our tree is given to Boston every year by Nova Scotia for their help and aid after the 1917 explosion of a ship which killed 1,900 people. Pretty aweful stuff.

Some of you have been eagerly awaiting my christmas list, and well, here is the latest version. I'm trying to think of more cheap things to add, but it's hard sometimes, because I already can buy the cheap stuff.

View the list here: http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifChristmas Wish List

It is also viewable on the sidebar at any time.

Merry Christmas!

It's been awhile...

Life tends to move along at its own pace. It cares not how fast or how slow you might like time to pass. Some days fly by, and sometime meetings or classes draw out forever.

I'm very busy (which I like) and it's making me work a little harder.

Flossing is becoming easier. I've started to brush and floss every night. It's good because I feel like I'm actually doing something right and so far am succeeding in it. I mean, it doesn't change the fact that when I went to the dentist the other day I found out I have eight cavities. But at least it scared me into taking care of myself.

In the mean time, I've got editing for Jake S. and Uppereast.com to do, which is nice because it's something that I love to do and it brings in the cash. However, I'm also First Assistant Director for a BA Practicum film. Our second week of shooting is tommorow and we are going to be shooting at a very empty mall in Billerica Massachusetts. I haven't seen the location, but if it's anything like they described, I'm sure it'll be amazing.

ADing is hard, because you've got to be constantly pushing everyone to get they're work done. You are in charge of scheduling and pacing the shots so that you can really move through the day and stay ahead of the game. If you fall behind, it's your job to basically invent time--either eliminating or combining shots, making people go faster, or spinning the globe backwards--whatever it takes.

I got a call from the Elders here in Boston today. It's actually the second time they've called and I've missed them. But I don't call back. Partly because I'm too busy to have a serious meeting with them, but I think part of it is that I'm afraid that when they meet me they'll see through me, see that I should be in there shoes, on a mission like them. And they'll think less of me. And I don't need more feelings of inadaquecy in my life--I've already got enough.

As for other things, my classes are moving along at a good clip. I've got a presentation on Islamic Architecture due sometime in mid December, two more editing projects to complete for Editing Class, my final draft of my second project and my third writing project... argh, there is still so much to do.

Life is like trying to empty the ocean. No matter how much you scoop out, there will still be the same amount of water in the sea.

Wish me luck on the shoot tommorow... I'm going to need it!

Work! Work! Work! It's Why I Am A Jerk!

I am not posting regularly because I am always working on something or other and I don't think about it. However, now that I have a paper to write, scripts to draft, etc, it is the perfect time to post, because I can use this as a procrastination tool.

Tommorow I'll be heading down to the Cape to help on Tyler Bell's BFA film, the Hop. It's going to be amazing. The film has a 20,000 dollar budget! They've got losts of equipment, too, which is awesome.

Needless to say, I'm still waiting on my car to sell, and hopefully it will sell so I can afford the G5 I bought.

We'll see. Wish me luck!

Rejected

Well, I was not selected as Director for any of the Women In Motion films.

I guess this was to be expected, since I haven't really directed anything on this campus since I've been here.  It makes me really frustrated.

Oh well.