Since film school isn't officially over until the finished film gets approved and they hand me the piece of paper I guess I'll keep this going for a while longer. But in terms of what I need to be in Boston for I'm pretty much done. I'm still working on Aaron's film, Move Immovable which shoots June 16-20, but that's because I can not because I have to. In terms of degree requirements I have finished all of my classes and I have directed my film. I'm done. Weird.
I was expecting to have a fairly lazy summer of unemployment and post-production with my feet up on the back deck of Mom and Dad's place in Harwich. If you have to be unemployed a summer on the Cape is a nice way to go. Free rent = good. Though I'd still be hustling to find freelance work so that I could pay the rest of my life expenses. I've been looking for those kinds of opportunities in Boston/New England, but so far had no nibbles at all. I thought I could probably get the 2 Final Cut classes to teach up in Maine again, assuming those classes sell, and 2 weeks of work is better than none at all.
When I asked my contact there if she knew she said they hadn't sold yet so she couldn't commit, but did I happen to know anyone I could recommend for the Post-Production Manager position which runs from June through October. They'd been interviewing people for it but hadn't found anyone she thought would be sharp enough and responsible enough. I said, bummer, I'd be interested except I'm not available until after June 20th. She came back the next day having talked to the powers that be and offered me the position. The pay is kind of crap, but I knew that from last summer. The instructors are paid competitively, but when I first went up to interview last spring it was to be a summer seasonal worker so I saw what all the jobs get paid. And while the instructors get housing, the staff people have to find a place to rent. But there is someone in charge of helping people do that and she knows what everyone is getting paid and what they can afford. Food, on the other hand, is provided. 17 meals a week, just not Saturday night or Sunday morning. So I won't make a lot of money. And until the house sells and I can stop paying my mortgage I'll be running at a loss. But less of a loss than if I were entirely unemployed. Plus it will be fun and interesting work. I'll meet tons of cool people over the course of the season, a very good opportunity for networking. Not necessarily for professor positions, but for any other job I might want. And I'll still have time in the evenings and weekends to get Ghost Tours edited.
I'm back to making lists now. Where I thought I would have 6 leisurely weeks between the end of Aaron's film and the end of my lease to pack up my stuff, figure out where I'm putting it, and move out of Boston and down to Harwich, I now have the two weeks before Aaron's film to pack up all my stuff and put it into storage. By the week of Aaron's film the only thing left in my apartment should be my mattress and anything coming to Maine. Wrap Aaron's film on Friday. Put the last of the stuff into storage on Saturday. Sleep on someone's couch on Saturday night. Drive to Maine on Sunday. And when that ends in October I will be officially homeless. Though if I haven't found my next job I'll probably just move down to Harwich be unemployed as per my original plan.
Oh, and my house is officially for sale. I signed the last of that paperwork ... sometime during the shoot, the days all blend. There's still a lingering list of things to take care of for that, especially now that I'll be in Maine for the next 4 months. Linda has agreed to be my Power of Attorney for the closing - I'm really hoping we sell it before October and this matters - so I have to figure out the paper work for that. And other little stuff to take care of.
This was supposed to be my rest, recover, prep for Aaron's film time. That didn't happen.
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