I just watched an episode of Robot Chicken. It's rude, crude and socially unacceptable and I find that I am quite fond of it. It totally makes me laugh. I watch it when I just need a little bit of downtime and tonight my brain was completely fried. Don't get me wrong, it was a great day at my internship and I'm looking forward to working with Xander in his scout troop, but it was just a freaking long day. Driving to Orlando doesn't help, it's a long drive everyday, but right now, it's what I need to do to be successful so I'm willing to pay the price.
Anyway, at my internship, we started pitching “The Chefsters”, it's a new kids tv series that we're looking for advertising partners for. For the last several weeks, we've been working on researching and putting together our pitch so that we can sell the show and today was game day. My boss was thrilled because out of 11 calls, I was able to send out 3 of our one sheets, which is really great odds, he usually expects a 20 to 1 ratio. The last one was awesome because they were already asking for prices which was completely unexpected, but totally awesome. My goal is really kick some but and whatever I sell, I get a commission and that is money that could really help me fulfill my goals of not having to work for a while so I can really work on my screenplays and get some movies made. It's very exciting stuff!
In other film making related news, I know that I wrote that “Action!!!” made it into another film festival out in LA and I REALLY want to go, but money is really tight. It would just be nice to get out of Florida for a few days. Not that I don't like Florida, but I think this is really the longest I've gone without going someplace. Even a road trip. I'm kinda dying. I definitely need some kind of adventure in my life. Granted, I have school and stuff so ideally, I should really wait until I'm finished, but at the same time, this is a good opportunity. We'll just have to see what happens and make the best of it, though I am feeling rather optimistic about things overall.
I can feel the tide changing in my life, but when the tide comes in things are really crazy and boy, I can also feel that. The kids only have 8 school days left which is all well and good, but we have something ever weekend with their rehearsals, which means crazy busy weekends. I have school twice a week for the next 4 weeks. Xander's scout troupe (all 2 of them, their mothers and even a couple of sisters) are planning a camping trip one weekend. I need to plan Marquella's birthday party that I promised her, if I'm lucky, go to LA, still take all my classes and go to my internship and then try and spend time with the kids before they leave for Utah for a few weeks. Needless to say, June is going to make me slightly crazy as I try and get everything done. I may want to pull my hair out and will probably yell a time a two to get things done and when it's all said and done, I'll probably sleep for the month of July but I am feeling good that things will be accomplished when they need to be.
What I find absolutely amazing is how much stuff I get accomplished when I have so much to do. I may work to a deadline, but 90% of the time, I make my deadlines, even if I wonder how in the heck I'm gonna make it. I just read an article that talks about the difference between a procrastinator and an incubator. A procrastinator waits till the last minute and then asks for an extension or turns in crappy work. An incubator waits till there is a deadline looming and then feels motivated by the deadline and turns in great stuff or at least pretty darn good stuff. That would definitely sum up last semester, especially in my history class. It was probably the hardest one I had ever taken with an incredible amount of reading and writing. I still managed to get a B+ in the class. Not to shabby I think, all things considering. For me, I spend so much brain time thinking about something that by the time I sit down to write or do something else (ie homework), I already know what I want to do and I just get it done.
I also know that I have to stop beating myself up for not doing everything on my list. I know that it is extremely hard for me to write and do schoolwork, though when I was taking a screen writing class, I did push through and write a feature length screenplay over a semester. But for me, when I have too many distractions, its really hard for me to be be creative. Once school is off my plate, that will help free up a lot of brain energy and let me focus back on being creative. Timing is everything and while I am setting goals, I need to enjoy the moment and realize that I am moving forward. I don't have to do everything now, even if it feels like I should be able to.
Time to go to sleep now, to take care of my health so tomorrow I can get up and get homework done so that this weekend I can enjoy it with my kids. We are going to have an awesome weekend, it will be great!
“Suffering produces endurance and endurance produces character and character produces hope.”
~Romans 5:3-4
“Goals are dreams with deadlines.”
~Diana Scharf Hunt
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