whoa.
all,
i leave for japan on the 30th and i can't find my passport. i've had bronchitis for a minute and i'm sick of not being able to see my friends.
i'd love your: addresses or email addresses, shoes sizes and and serious requests for stuff you'd like in japan. i'll probably send a package or two back before i leave for hong kong on/around august 10th.
we're pretty much done shooting the documentary and when we were in d.f. last columbia/tri-star/buena vista agreed to distribute the film in mexico where they control 2,000 theaters so we're really excited. we were going to go back in late june right before i leave but decided to postpone the trip until i'm back in austin in early september and work on nailing down an editor and some serious funding in the mean time. being down there is so often and so publicly is starting to kind of scare us, too, so we thought it best to take a few months off and let things cool down a bit down there. needless to say, mexico city was amazing once again.
i can't sleep right now, which is bothering me a bit.
tomorrow is the last day of this summer camp-type thing i've been teaching english and history at for the last week and a half. i teach three classes of 4th-6th graders a day. it's been pretty fun: i got them to read a short chapter out of the wind-up bird chronicles(which i'm rereading myself right now and am still totally blown away by), and we get to swim with them every afternoon. plus they're paying me a little bit which is great since i haven't worked in over a month now.
i'm kind of in disbelief about my trip at this point: it just seems so odd that i won't be in austin for the summer, that i have no real plans for when i get back, that i won't see my friends for such a long period of time, that i'll actually be in tokyo where i've dreamed of going for years now. it's a really wierd feeling.
i'm pretty sure i'm going to take all the money they're paying me and move to paris until i run out of funds. i'm hoping i'll be able to be there for 4-6 months and then come back and apply to graduate schools in something or another. my dad wnats me to go to film school but it just seems so fucking trite to say out-loud that i'm not sure i'll be able to go through with it. who knows. i want to train myself to write a lot while i'm in japan so i can just sit around and be a writer the rest of my life. that seems like the thing to do. if you have some plans for mid-late fall that i should know about(like you'll be somewhere overseas and i should come visit or live with you or something) please let me know as i'll have a ton of time and money and want to spend both well. i'm pretty sure paris is it, though, because i'd love to learn french. maybe rome instead or berlin. convince me. buneos aires also a real possibility as ty, our cinematographer, has spent almost two years living there and told me he can get me jobs on shoots or something. but i'd kind of rather learn another language.
anything in here stand out as odd or out of place? let me know before i'm in over my head. you've got about two weeks. after that you'll have to tell me via email or really expensive phone call. they decided to put me in a hotel for the first week and then in they're old flat in the city for the rest of my time there, which i'm really excited about.
i leave for japan on the 30th and i can't find my passport. i've had bronchitis for a minute and i'm sick of not being able to see my friends.
i'd love your: addresses or email addresses, shoes sizes and and serious requests for stuff you'd like in japan. i'll probably send a package or two back before i leave for hong kong on/around august 10th.
we're pretty much done shooting the documentary and when we were in d.f. last columbia/tri-star/buena vista agreed to distribute the film in mexico where they control 2,000 theaters so we're really excited. we were going to go back in late june right before i leave but decided to postpone the trip until i'm back in austin in early september and work on nailing down an editor and some serious funding in the mean time. being down there is so often and so publicly is starting to kind of scare us, too, so we thought it best to take a few months off and let things cool down a bit down there. needless to say, mexico city was amazing once again.
i can't sleep right now, which is bothering me a bit.
tomorrow is the last day of this summer camp-type thing i've been teaching english and history at for the last week and a half. i teach three classes of 4th-6th graders a day. it's been pretty fun: i got them to read a short chapter out of the wind-up bird chronicles(which i'm rereading myself right now and am still totally blown away by), and we get to swim with them every afternoon. plus they're paying me a little bit which is great since i haven't worked in over a month now.
i'm kind of in disbelief about my trip at this point: it just seems so odd that i won't be in austin for the summer, that i have no real plans for when i get back, that i won't see my friends for such a long period of time, that i'll actually be in tokyo where i've dreamed of going for years now. it's a really wierd feeling.
i'm pretty sure i'm going to take all the money they're paying me and move to paris until i run out of funds. i'm hoping i'll be able to be there for 4-6 months and then come back and apply to graduate schools in something or another. my dad wnats me to go to film school but it just seems so fucking trite to say out-loud that i'm not sure i'll be able to go through with it. who knows. i want to train myself to write a lot while i'm in japan so i can just sit around and be a writer the rest of my life. that seems like the thing to do. if you have some plans for mid-late fall that i should know about(like you'll be somewhere overseas and i should come visit or live with you or something) please let me know as i'll have a ton of time and money and want to spend both well. i'm pretty sure paris is it, though, because i'd love to learn french. maybe rome instead or berlin. convince me. buneos aires also a real possibility as ty, our cinematographer, has spent almost two years living there and told me he can get me jobs on shoots or something. but i'd kind of rather learn another language.
anything in here stand out as odd or out of place? let me know before i'm in over my head. you've got about two weeks. after that you'll have to tell me via email or really expensive phone call. they decided to put me in a hotel for the first week and then in they're old flat in the city for the rest of my time there, which i'm really excited about.