Vivid Dream
I didnt eat much last night. 2 Cheezeritos, some chips and helluva dip, a glass of milk and 6 oreos (for dipping), and a balance bar (my new addicition) and thats it. Then i played some much needed GTA3 on the ps2. Its so relaxing to plow through crowds of people in a fresh tuna truck. Its even better to hit the ramps just right and get yer truck high enough to land on the subway train rails. BONUS! Still I didnt eat enough.
I know I didnt eat enough cause whenever I dont eat enough, i get strange and wildly vivid dreams. Tonights was a bit shorter than Saturdays but still pretty interesting. Kinda scary at the end. I was at my old neighborhood pool and someone put a gator in the 9 feet and of course at some point in the dream i was in that 9 feet with the gator but I managed (cause me arms are long) to reach around and close its snout a bit when it came dartin around me. Course as a result of seein the gator im up a bit earlier this morning. So heres yer blog.
I'm sure work has to do with part of the dream. They always overbook me when it comes to video. Everyone needs their video done all on the same day. Thursday is this weeks crunch point. So far in the grand scheme of things three of the four videos will probably make their deadline. The biggest pain in my ass currently is no suprise but i'll just say its Company X, they bite. They always give us the JUMP and we jump... course we charge them out the ass so I guess its all good.
Course in the end the pressures can all be solved in the edit as long as, yes lets say it again, we got the codes. Ya got timecode?! If ya dont, then get the fuck out!
So is the gator the work i got to do today? The miracle edit of goodness that somehow makes Company X happy? Maybe, probably.. i would think so. I think i'll go in around 7am as well and just crank it out a bit better since of course not just an edit has to occur but all the other crap no one ever factors into the timeline: the encode to avi, the slapeth to cd, the label making, the bump to minidv to be bumped to vhs, and the classic case of "can you deliever that to my undeliverable location??... say in 10mins?" which will always be the case. Then of course I have everyone else staring at me going "what about my video..." plan people! Thats all I can say, if you want the dan magic then SHOW ME THE TIME CODE!
I was a bit punchy in the meeting yesterday too I think. I just hate it when we do things to slow ourselves down. Lets assign that person to watch this person and this person to watch that person. As if that will actually happen in our fire drill enviroment. Dunno. Sure lets try!
Its not all bad though, lotta good work happening, lotta new projects which is what keeps everyone alive. Some new learning opportunities as well. So its mainly just a rant really, gotta get back in there and crank it out.