Making costly mistakes.

We made a minor error during our film competition clean-up and it inadvertently caused some real problems at work the next morning. It is a terrible feeling to make a mistake that could have easily been avoided... it is an even worse feeling when it compounds into exponentially more trouble. I am lucky to work for such understanding people, and I did not incur any particular punishment beyond my own emotional self-beating, but I wish I could do something to make it up in some way. Alas, it can not be done, however, and life sort of punches me in the face once again.

Staying busy with business.

I can probably go into work and stay busy doing just about anything pretty much anytime. I suppose it's a nice thing but it can be a bit overwhelming if I get too connected to a project. That personal level of responsibility starts to take over some of the normal self-preservation functions on occasion, sleep being one of the first casualties almost every time. I need to practice better decision making for sure!

Gettin' it done on time.

Which we did... though the cheap flash drive I purchased to deliver this project has another thing to say about that. Technically we were a little late but the organizers were fairly lenient and allowed our entry to stand. I look forward to seeing how it all turns out in a couple weeks!

The many virtues of the "oner".

The challenge of it, the potential beauty of it, but, most delightfully, the efficiency of it in post-production. It is difficult to properly express my appreciation of having the bulk of the work done as soon as the shooting is done. The stress levels simply dive into oblivion. I need to do this sort of thing much more frequently!

Busting into day 1.

We got quite a pretty easy crop of "curveballs" to work with and, even though writing is never an easy process, I think we got that stuff out of the way in a fairly simple stretch tonight. I would have gone a different way, personally, but I will make that attempt another time. In any case, I think we can craft some decent quality over the next 38 or so hours.(I'm sure my math is way off. ha)

Closing in on another sleepless weekend.

Actually, I plan to get some decent sleep on each of the weekend evenings this time around. The workload will be distributed in a fairly unusual way compared to what we have done in the past so I expect it to be a much easier weekend in that way. Certainly the challenges of writing and prepping are going to be more difficult and extensive but I expect it will pay out in the quality of the final product.

It's fun to dive into different genres once in a while.

Mostly because diversity of listening habits improves the experience of each piece by contrast. I tend to get in the habit of overplaying the same playlist, much of it because I still tend to enjoy it fairly thoroughly, but stumbling into a couple unusual beats, mixed with some classic jazz vocals is pretty much always a treat. I'm not sure why I haven't done much exploring in that direction for a while... maybe five years or more. Weird. At least it seems weird to me.