just learned an interesting bit of information for work. Apparently the long days that is normal for tech rehearsals have been shortened this week. Rather than working 10 out of 12 hours for 2 days and 8 out of 10 for the third, all three days are straight 6 hour days. Sooo... like Wheee! I get out early!! Buuuuutttt... Fuck! We gotta do 28 hours of work in 18 hours. Really not sure if I should be happy or sad.
IOmeN, I feel all 'pat on the back' for the best Sound Design delegating of duties to minions I've ever done. The time consuming, find source material tasks I delegated out, while I was working on other things. When I got the tracks, I whipped them all into shape in like 15-20 minutes, and 1st rough draft was approved with minor changes! Squee! I gotta design like this more often! Must Have Ass'ts!!!
OK, sorry for taking up bandwidth. But it was a happy realization as I drove home, and we need to share more happy news to fight back evil March! Take that! POW!
O ya, MM, saw a great license plate this morning, and was hoping it was you moved back to LA. It read "KRP2NYT"
Omnis, I'm very happy you have good news to share. We do need more of it.
I'm still awake. I don't know why.
My father got a letter from the mayor of the town where his mother grew up, inviting him to a ceremony commemorating the anniversary of Kristallnacht. The more I think about this, the weirder it seems.
inviting him to a ceremony commemorating the anniversary of Kristallnacht. The more I think about this, the weirder it seems.
I read the word "Kristallnacht" and lpaused on it before reading forward, thinking, "isn't that the night...." and then read the rest of your post. Ya, does seem weird. I suppose its a bit of "remember, so it doesn't happen again" type of thing?.?.
ION, I think I just sent a note to my local NPR volunteering services in the summer. Curious what, if anything, comes of it. Funny, they even mention on the volunteer page "Sound Editing". Much rather do that than filing or clerical duties. Tho, it makes me wonder, how much of their content is volunteers editing. Curious. We shall see if anything comes of it. I see it as a few goals. 1) help my local NPR, since money is tight, give in other ways. 2) get some 'behind the scenes' on how it's done. I haven't done radio since undergrad 3) [longshot] maybe get some outside work out of it.
The things you do at 1am when you should be in bed. With that, I'm off to bed before I get myself into any more trouble.
Having some kind of "We fucked up, we're really sorry about it" ceremony isn't the weird part. Germany does that all the time. It's inviting the descendants of the victims back that seems weird. I mean, I'm trying to imagine, if he did go, what the mayor or anyone else in the town would say to him. "Sorry our grandparents broke your grandfather's restaurant"? "Good thing your mother got out in time"?
I remember reading that the city of Berlin has a thing each year where they invite any former Jewish residents (and anyone else persecuted by the Nazis, I suppose) of Berlin back to the city, and the city pays for all the travel expences and has some kind of ceremony for them. Aschaffenburg is a much smaller city, so I guess they just do it for anniversaries? I can't recall hearing about this on any other anniversary, but the last multiple-of-ten year one, my grandmother was still alive, so the letter would have gone to her, so I might not have heard about it.
O ya, MM, saw a great license plate this morning, and was hoping it was you moved back to LA. It read "KRP2NYT"
BWAH! That's awesome.
I think if we move back to L.A...so tempting...I would try to get a vanity plate that said "MRCLMAN".
Assuming I could get my license back.
urgh. Sitting in the dealership waiting to hear about my car. Fucking coolant light came on four months after it was in for service. I'm v. Annoyed.
In a followup to Cambridge sending me a notice about my apparently-still-existent application, Boston University Upward Bound would like me to know they have a math position open this summer.
This wouldn't seem so strange to me if I'd gotten any of these emails last summer, but they seem to have skipped a year.
