Apotheosis
Back from AB2012. I somehow dodged major illness, con plague and was only slightly sleep deprived.
Didn't manage to avoid some MAJOR drama however over the course of the weekend. Why do these things always get so complicated? I spent a ridiculous amount of time re-encoding videos (hours on end if I had to guess) and dealing (or at least trying to deal with) personnel issues. The fallout from that is still not fully addressed, and likely won't be for a while. I haven't sat down to deal with it frankly because I just haven't wanted to.
Not sure how I feel about my contributions this year either. I wasn't happy with how several events went off and need to reassess how my entire department will run in the future. Staffing too will need a reassessment, as well as responsibility layouts and my communication skills. Too many times I was tongue tied when trying to give camera direction because I assumed these kids would just read my mind, which they obviously can't. Articulate articulate articulate.
As always I spent a vast majority of my weekend hanging with the rest of team auditorium. Which is great because they're some of my favorite people to see and work with at con (including Productions Inc people in this since I know them better than almost half the AB staff). What's so nice about us now is that we can basically read each others minds. Our communication is pretty effortless now and it's a relief to know they have my back if something isn't going right. Next year I'd like to try and get outside of the building for one lunch break at least. It's the small things at this con.
Couldn't stop a late night breakdown/cry on Saturday while I was working on reordering an event for the 4th time? I lost count of how many reencodes were done on that show because mp4 is not actually a good way to make videos for playback on our systems. This con marked the first time I've really spent a huge chunk of time sitting by myself, often in silence. Not sure what exactly prompted so much of it this year, but sometimes that happens with me.
Also...of course...because I can't go an AB without something serious happening family wise...my dad spent Wed-Fri at the hospital because he had a fever. Since he was in high risk zone because his WBC count is so low right now they admitted him for fluids and IV antibiotics. My mom assured me it wasn't a really big deal, and I'm not sure I would have handled it well with all the stress we were under at show, but looking back I think I would have wanted to know. Hindsight 20/20 as always I assume. He did look and seem much more comfortable when I skyped with them late on Monday to let them know I was in fact not dead yet. And his oncologist agreed to let him wait until the beginning of next week for chemo round 2 so he could go to the car show in at the Javitts for his late birthday gift. So...small victories.
Came home to my post AB presents to myself which were the graphic novel Daytripper, a drawing inspiration guide, the Ratchet and Clank comic and the soundtrack to the game Journey for the PS3.
Didn't manage to avoid some MAJOR drama however over the course of the weekend. Why do these things always get so complicated? I spent a ridiculous amount of time re-encoding videos (hours on end if I had to guess) and dealing (or at least trying to deal with) personnel issues. The fallout from that is still not fully addressed, and likely won't be for a while. I haven't sat down to deal with it frankly because I just haven't wanted to.
Not sure how I feel about my contributions this year either. I wasn't happy with how several events went off and need to reassess how my entire department will run in the future. Staffing too will need a reassessment, as well as responsibility layouts and my communication skills. Too many times I was tongue tied when trying to give camera direction because I assumed these kids would just read my mind, which they obviously can't. Articulate articulate articulate.
As always I spent a vast majority of my weekend hanging with the rest of team auditorium. Which is great because they're some of my favorite people to see and work with at con (including Productions Inc people in this since I know them better than almost half the AB staff). What's so nice about us now is that we can basically read each others minds. Our communication is pretty effortless now and it's a relief to know they have my back if something isn't going right. Next year I'd like to try and get outside of the building for one lunch break at least. It's the small things at this con.
Couldn't stop a late night breakdown/cry on Saturday while I was working on reordering an event for the 4th time? I lost count of how many reencodes were done on that show because mp4 is not actually a good way to make videos for playback on our systems. This con marked the first time I've really spent a huge chunk of time sitting by myself, often in silence. Not sure what exactly prompted so much of it this year, but sometimes that happens with me.
Also...of course...because I can't go an AB without something serious happening family wise...my dad spent Wed-Fri at the hospital because he had a fever. Since he was in high risk zone because his WBC count is so low right now they admitted him for fluids and IV antibiotics. My mom assured me it wasn't a really big deal, and I'm not sure I would have handled it well with all the stress we were under at show, but looking back I think I would have wanted to know. Hindsight 20/20 as always I assume. He did look and seem much more comfortable when I skyped with them late on Monday to let them know I was in fact not dead yet. And his oncologist agreed to let him wait until the beginning of next week for chemo round 2 so he could go to the car show in at the Javitts for his late birthday gift. So...small victories.
Came home to my post AB presents to myself which were the graphic novel Daytripper, a drawing inspiration guide, the Ratchet and Clank comic and the soundtrack to the game Journey for the PS3.