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Been a hectic week. Today the woman had to run off to a reading and rehearsal that would last into the night, but she left me with some buckwheat pancakes which we'd accessorized with bananas, walnuts and dried cranberries.

A street fair took me out of the house a bit. As people around here know, there's been rain nearly every day this month. There were some showers today, but the feeling I got from people was, "nah, sorry, we're not having it!" And after the crowd dispersed a little to shelter the rain would stop so we could take back the streets again.

I'm supposed to write something for my Aikido dojo's blog, but I've been really blocked. So here I am, writing random stuff instead.



Last night I had a dream that I was in some foreign country, it felt like it could be Eastern Europe, the people there were white, but there was the sense that the government was a little heavy-handed. I was there as a documentary shooter, the first thing I remember was shooting a lobby of a big building where there was a screen showing some important news broadcast.

I wanted to take some footage of the street, but suddenly I had to get into this van and head out with the people who were our guides or possibly employers in this country. LP, the producer who I've been working with on a job for the UN in real life, was there. When I got in I wanted to take some out-the-window shots at least since these people were rushing me before I could get any decent footage, but now my camera looked like a silvery plastic M-16 and when I raised it to the window a woman told me to keep it out of sight or we'd get in trouble.



This week was hectic. It's mostly been about chasing down the kind of footage we need for this video we're producing for the UN, but being slowed down by the complications of the bureaucracies of all the different agencies therein. After much delay I was finally able to get some footage from the UN library. Had to venture into the vast basement which kind of tripped me out, it was the kind of basement you'd expect in a vast building built in the 1950s. I would have like to take more pictures but I don't want to be seen as compromising security there so I just took the ones you see.




As soon as this job is over I have to get my brain back into my own documentary, plan how I'm going to use this $15K, and write a budget so the foundation can cut me a check. Then the day after my birthday I'm heading out to CA to have a screening of my rough cut and meet with somebody who works for a major public TV funder. And hopefully accomplish some other things I'll hopefully figure out this week.

It's definitely cool that there is cash flow now in theory, but it will be a while before I have the actual cash so I'm still in a pretty austere mode like I've been since the beginning of the year. I've been fronting some credit for tech-type stuff I need for my work, but I need to buy some shoes, some clothes even!