nodding is a most helpful parenting skill
No one tells you about nodding, but really, it is the most helpful of parenting skills. It gets you through long involved conversations about the minutia of swim practice, or the ongoing debate about chairs and flute I or flute II. It gets you through conversations with other parents where they go on & on about their kids doing something with kids you don't know and what they think of the biology teacher. Of course there are always drawbacks but a good rule of thumb is to never nod during a committee meeting of any kind (lest you end up becoming fundraising chair or booster president) and never nod when your child is asking for permission to do anything (or you get their choice of appropriate school picture attire & then have to spend the next year listening to your mother in law go on & on about the neon yellow Shazam t-shirt they chose to wear).
I have a vid. Or rather a first solid draft of a vid. A vid that I love and loathe and have no idea what to do with. It sort of feels like a delicious cake with an unfortunate & deeply disfiguring crack across the top that I just need to cover up with a thick layer of chocolate ganache & voila it will be both tasty & visually not sucky. Except, I keep getting distracted & the melting chocolate seizes & wow that's an even bigger mess. (This convoluted simile brought to you by the first round of thanksgiving baking going on at our house. Vidding is hard; cooking metaphors are easy.) Current vid strategy? Poke at vid timeline. Look at results. Make undignified noise of disgust. Hit CTRL-Z. Pick up phone & play yet another round of the greatest time suck game from hell i.e. Angry Birds. Though I have to say, birds blowing up shit when you are frustrated by your inability to remember how to do a fucking jump cut is kinda soothing.
Friday night we saw Deathly Hallows Pt 1. There was nearly a massive ticket/scheduling flub (note to self, never put spouse in charge of tickets & meet ups) but all worked out & we enjoyed the movie a great deal. Visually it was stunning. The shadow illustration of the deathly hallows tale was fabulous. I'll take an entire movie in that style any day. Re: the previews? Let's just say the entire family is super psyched for the Green Lantern movie in an embarrassing way.
I made the mistake of sending the link to the latest Hyperbole and a Half blog post to a co-worker and then watched the rest of the office spend all of Thursday and most of Friday reading the entire blog and/or discussing their favorite posts with everyone else. Ooops? I don't anticipate getting any work done next week either. Our offices are being painted & right now it's like a bombed out tunnel run to get from one person's desk to another.
I have a vid. Or rather a first solid draft of a vid. A vid that I love and loathe and have no idea what to do with. It sort of feels like a delicious cake with an unfortunate & deeply disfiguring crack across the top that I just need to cover up with a thick layer of chocolate ganache & voila it will be both tasty & visually not sucky. Except, I keep getting distracted & the melting chocolate seizes & wow that's an even bigger mess. (This convoluted simile brought to you by the first round of thanksgiving baking going on at our house. Vidding is hard; cooking metaphors are easy.) Current vid strategy? Poke at vid timeline. Look at results. Make undignified noise of disgust. Hit CTRL-Z. Pick up phone & play yet another round of the greatest time suck game from hell i.e. Angry Birds. Though I have to say, birds blowing up shit when you are frustrated by your inability to remember how to do a fucking jump cut is kinda soothing.
Friday night we saw Deathly Hallows Pt 1. There was nearly a massive ticket/scheduling flub (note to self, never put spouse in charge of tickets & meet ups) but all worked out & we enjoyed the movie a great deal. Visually it was stunning. The shadow illustration of the deathly hallows tale was fabulous. I'll take an entire movie in that style any day. Re: the previews? Let's just say the entire family is super psyched for the Green Lantern movie in an embarrassing way.
I made the mistake of sending the link to the latest Hyperbole and a Half blog post to a co-worker and then watched the rest of the office spend all of Thursday and most of Friday reading the entire blog and/or discussing their favorite posts with everyone else. Ooops? I don't anticipate getting any work done next week either. Our offices are being painted & right now it's like a bombed out tunnel run to get from one person's desk to another.