pourkoipas
First of all, i just spent (ok, wasted) 40 minutes on blogger.com, picking out a template, choosing what i thought was a quirky name (which it wasn’t, so i had to change many multiple times) etc etc etc before i realized that i like livejournal a whole lot more and abandoned the thing altogether--> time well spent naomi, nice one.
Honestly, every day i sit at gerts with nat or ashley or roz and we ask ourselves, why the hell do we waste so much time?!! its driving me crazy. and the thing is that it is making me start to hate working for tvmcgill (yes, a gasp is in order). tvm has been my life all year long and i love it, even now. but there is just so much to do and to get done in the next two months or so that i am overwhelmed. not to mention the fact that being overwhelmed by tvm reminds me that i am overwhelmed about finding a real job in the industry for next year. i pretty much want to do what i do now but MUCH MUCH BIGGER (and GET PAID). argh. there is so much swirling around in my head recently... and when i say swirling, i mean it. the expression "a chicken with its head cut off" never made more sense to me.
But then, everyone is swamped right? do people always 'compete' with each other for who is busier? when you’re 40 and you’re at a dinner party and the person next to you asks, "so, how are things going for you?" and you reply "well, i am sooo busy at work- i love it, but am so so busy", will they probably reply, "oh i know, me too, i am soooooo busy, so so so so busy"? does this make any sense whatsoever??
I would now like to say 2 things. #1- I got an A on a paper for my psychoanalysis class on Narcissism. (woohoo). #2 here is an interesting remark by Richard Leacock. He's talking about making documentaries, specifically cinema vérité (the subject of the paper i am presently writing) and how there are two levels of discovery, two procedures through which a filmmaker must go in making his/her film: "now the strange thing is that in filming [cinema vérité], we find that there are two adventures. You have a sort of exploration: you go out and film, and all your acts are final. You cant go back. You can't say 'please do that again' . We find that editing is often a process of discovering that what we thought was the structure doesn’t seem to work. …often we have to reconstitute the whole film after an attempt to cut it. …and so you have two levels of discovering."
... how fitting that O'Reily's "Exit Music (For a Film)" is playing right now...
Honestly, every day i sit at gerts with nat or ashley or roz and we ask ourselves, why the hell do we waste so much time?!! its driving me crazy. and the thing is that it is making me start to hate working for tvmcgill (yes, a gasp is in order). tvm has been my life all year long and i love it, even now. but there is just so much to do and to get done in the next two months or so that i am overwhelmed. not to mention the fact that being overwhelmed by tvm reminds me that i am overwhelmed about finding a real job in the industry for next year. i pretty much want to do what i do now but MUCH MUCH BIGGER (and GET PAID). argh. there is so much swirling around in my head recently... and when i say swirling, i mean it. the expression "a chicken with its head cut off" never made more sense to me.
But then, everyone is swamped right? do people always 'compete' with each other for who is busier? when you’re 40 and you’re at a dinner party and the person next to you asks, "so, how are things going for you?" and you reply "well, i am sooo busy at work- i love it, but am so so busy", will they probably reply, "oh i know, me too, i am soooooo busy, so so so so busy"? does this make any sense whatsoever??
I would now like to say 2 things. #1- I got an A on a paper for my psychoanalysis class on Narcissism. (woohoo). #2 here is an interesting remark by Richard Leacock. He's talking about making documentaries, specifically cinema vérité (the subject of the paper i am presently writing) and how there are two levels of discovery, two procedures through which a filmmaker must go in making his/her film: "now the strange thing is that in filming [cinema vérité], we find that there are two adventures. You have a sort of exploration: you go out and film, and all your acts are final. You cant go back. You can't say 'please do that again' . We find that editing is often a process of discovering that what we thought was the structure doesn’t seem to work. …often we have to reconstitute the whole film after an attempt to cut it. …and so you have two levels of discovering."
... how fitting that O'Reily's "Exit Music (For a Film)" is playing right now...