The Road to Recovery

It's done. Done is good. And now I will keep feeling better a little at a time. It went pretty well as far as these things go. I'm uncomfortable any time I'm not just sitting still. And I walk around hunched over like a question mark. But having read about all the symptoms I could have had before and all the things that could go wrong during and after, really this is a breeze. They gave me the good drugs so I'm alright. Though the drugs do specifically say that they impair mental faculty so don't hold me to anything.

Going under the knife

I'm heading back to Boston tomorrow to have the surgery on Tuesday. To be honest, I'm not sure how I feel about that. Relieved that the wait is finally over, certainly. Not scared. I think I've been running around so much this month that it doesn't entirely feel real. I've had so many trips to that hospital for appointments that it doesn't feel any different even though it's very different. I more than half feel like I should be biking to get there. I do wish it could have all happened more quickly. The more time I have to think about it the more I think about it.

Anyway, don't know when I'll feel like posting again, or when I'll have anything interesting to say. Recovery is going to be a lot of sitting around while my abdomen heals up. I don't think that will be exciting for anybody. In about a month I'll be heading out for the Woods Hole Film Festival where Killer is screening. I'll definitely have a lot to say about that. And then two weeks later it will screen again at We Like 'Em Short in Baker City Oregon. I won't make it to that but I am more than a little pleased to say that it's screening nationwide. 4 states so far and counting.

Living in an artists' colony

I am in Maine for the week teaching my Final Cut X class. The Maine Media Workshops is a place to go to take week long classes on topics related to photography and film/video. The classes on offer this week are: Portrait Lighting Techniques, Creativity and Invention in Photoshop, The Large Format Narrative Portrait, Designing Interactive Publications, Camera Operator, Final Cut Pro, DIT on Set, The Director's Craft, plus the 2nd week of Four Week Film School. We all eat 3 meals a day together under the tent so in addition to my own students I've had a chance to meet students and instructors from the other classes as well. So I'm surrounded all day by creative and happy people. It's really kind of fantastic.

Pre-Op

The pre-op appointment was kind of boring except for the 3 vials of blood that they had to do a lot of poking to get. It's the 4th time I've had blood drawn in the last 2 months and this chick had a hard time finding a useful vein. I'll admit I'm not an easy one, but ouch.

Art imitating life

I am really looking forward to my adaptations class in the fall. One of the shortcomings I tend to have is thinking up story ideas in the first place. If this class can help me to find existing ideas and make them film-worthy that seems like a good thing for me.