Monday, May 02, 2011
It's been a real wild week...
It's been a week. No, I mean a crazy bad, good, bad, good week. Since last Sunday, so much has happened... I don't know what to think.
First, Monday, I had a "final" presentation to give for a class (quotations because it was part of a "final" overall project including the presentation plus a pair of papers). I wasn't too sure what I needed to do but by the time it was over, I felt pretty good about it overall. Our CG guru got me the 3D stuff for our wrestling trailer, which is perfect as the time is nearing for it to be done.
Tuesday, tornadoes in Alabama. (This is a recurrent theme in the week.) Plus, I had to read another act from my horror script in class. My changes were well-received with extra notes for this week. (That's a good thing.)
Wednesday, lost my voice from sinus, allergy and seasonal problems. Also, produced the sponsor promo for the internet show I'll be producing this summer. THAT was fun. Good people, good time, everybody moving as a part of a well-oiled machine. And the Pens lost Game 7 to the Bolts. This coincided with the real bad tornadoes that rocked the entire Southeast, horrible twisters that moved over miles, not just the usual up-and-down ones that drop in and then leave but 16 mile x 1/2 mile swaths of destruction. Mini-hurricane. My wife likened it to the tsunami damage in Japan. Unbelievable.
Thursday, dropped all the promo footage off at the editor's office and... AND... found the next volume of the Pittsburgh Penguins greatest games. It's what I have to content myself with in the absence of the Pens from the latter rounds of the playoffs. What's more, Thursday started my odyssey of NFL Draft this past weekend, with Cam Newton getting picked first by the Panthers, Marcell Dareus third by the Bills, Julio Jones sixth by the Falcons, James Carpenter (OG, Alabama) later in the first round and Mark Ingram going to the Saints. Oh and there was some other DT/DE going to the Lions that really blew my skirt up. LOVED IT! What a great draft for the state of Alabama. My sinusy thing continued.
Which all fell apart Friday as the damage assessments came in from the tornadoes. And my business partner's father-in-law passed away after a lengthy illness. But I still couldn't talk. The editor of the afore mentioned wrestling trailer had a death in the family. And there was some... wedding... in England...?
Saturday, Greg McElroy (and Lee Ziemba) were FINALLY chosen in the 7th round of the NFL Draft and the first edit of the promo came through. The first edits of the promo came through and they were really good, and there was a quick second which was even better. Plus I spoke to my dad and he's fine, as is the house.
Sunday, we went to my business partner's father-in-law's funeral and went to a Japanese restaurant in Staten Island - which nattering Chinese people ran and were very un-nattering to us once we showed them our coupon. It was not so good. The funeral was well-done and I feel very bad for my partner's family as they are very close.
Then... I wake up to today's BIG NEWS. I don't even have to tell you what it is. I hope. I don't even know what to think. Plus I saw the final edit of the not-wrestling trailer and it's really REALLY good.
And there you go. Wow. Lots of crazy things happening. And my voice still isn't back yet.
