10/29/2001

Another Monday morning. Today we were in a church and will be back tomorrow. Today was, for me very frustrating. I am not too sure why and that isn't all that good. I think it might be that I am spending too much time with these people. It's nothing personal. I rather like spending large chuncks of time by myself and have not been afforded that very much since I started this project. Also the lack of having a "life" could be contributing to the mix. All we really have time to do is work and sleep. Some of the crew stay up late and gossip and hang out and sometimes go out to a club. It is a lot of fun and you get to know the people a lot more, but I don't have the energy to do that every night. Unless I know you ( and even sometimes when I do know you) it takes a lot of energy for me to interact with people. Not very often but sometimes. One thing that is plaguing the entire show is lack of communication. And it effects all departments and aspects of this movie. No one knows how to say what they want, myself included. Hand in hand with that is that no one really listens too well. But enough with that, again I am in my new room after having two others in as many nights. Finally I am on the bottom floor and have a single bed. Following the electricions lead I have put colored gel on the lights in my room. The light on the bed is green, the one on the table that I am typing on is yellow and the one on the TV is red. I have everything in place for the "pleasure dome" as eric calles it, all I need now is the power strip I forgot at home. I will pick one up at sears tomorrow. What is the "pleasure dome" you ask? Well in order to make my month long stay a little more enjoyable I have brought some things from home. First off I have my Casio E115 hand held computer with a small travel keyboard( its what im typing on right now) and a modem card, various magazines, and (the key to the dome) a portable DVD player that can play DVD, CD, CDR and MP3. That is attached to a box that plugs into the TV and also is wired to my computer speakers that I brought. So I have over 20 DVD's to choose from and ovrer 10 CD's as well as one MP3 disk that has over a hundred songs on it. I would say I am fairly well stocked. At the moment I am listening to Gameface, Guy is now the bass player and he made us a CD of their songs so we would be familiar with them when we went to see them play. Today wasn't all bad I got two calls that lifted my spirits. One was from Jennifer. She called toward the end of our lunch break. We took lunch a half hour late so that was good timing as I don't think I would have felt it ringing or been able to answer it. I had actually been thinking of her today and would have liked to talk to her. Even though it was a short conversation it helped. The second was from Susan. I did not actually get to talk to her as she called after lunch( see above ) and she left a message. Now I had thought about her just the other day for various reasons and was very surprised to hear from her. She left a very nice message. It made me miss my friends and home so I guess it wasn't a very good message. I kid, I liked the message and wanted to call her back and hear her voice but we were at the begining of another shot that would take almost two hours of dorking around to finnish. And by then it was way too late to bother anyone even though they would tell you "you can call me anytime day or night. No really you can. Seriously I stay up late and have nothing to do." They would be cursing you the moment you hung up.