Don’t gimme no sugar, baby: day 4
October 18th 2002 -
Don’t gimme no sugar, baby: day 4
Fourth day without explicit sugar products, or dairy. I’m not being absolutely fanatical about it – incidental sugar and milk in bread isn’t enough to stop me eating that, I’m just not eating anything that is sweet or obviously dairy. It’s not too bad, since I’m not going cold-turkey on sugar altogether. I’m not getting physiological cravings, just the usual psychological ones, which aren’t so bad. It feels kind of good, actually. I love a good bout of self-denial.
Yet another short film maker
I’ve agreed to help out yet another short film-maker on Saturday, Tara B. It’s her first short film as writer/director and I greatly fear I made her a bit nervous about the whole experience by pointing her at the Once Upon A Time webpage (here on otherleg). I looked back on it, and egad – we were very, very prepared for that shoot. I’ve never been as prepared since. Wow.
Anyway, Tara sounds pretty nice, and there’s hopefully some other experienced crew around, so with any luck it’ll be fun. The script “Rock” is decent enough, though I think it’ll benefit a lot from good acting – apparently all her actors are stage-actors. *More* lovely contacts! This will make four film shoots since I last make one of my own films. At least. Those storyboards are sitting next to the mac at home, folornly waiting to be drawn upon, and the shooting script is still awaiting the gender changes I decided on.
Greek
I was fiddling around with the Greek tapes in the car, trying to swap a tape without looking at them, and stuck in the wrong tape, tape #13 instead of tape #8. And much to my surprise, it loudly announced that it was “Pimsler’s Language Program, Unit 25 of the Portugese 3 course”. And then they started rapidly talking in Portugese. Um…