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Doobry June 8th 2002
Posted Jun 8, 2002
Holiday!
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zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.......(Thing 25th April, some time in the early hours)
Posted Apr 25, 2002
I've just finished a fifteen-and-a-quarter hour shift. We're expecting a visit from one of our directors, the company is launching a new corporate image and we've got a new manager 'on trial', so I had a list of jobs as long as my arm and I couldn't even think of coming home till they were all finished.
And I can't see things being any better tomorrow- I mean, later today...
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No News is Good News...
Posted Mar 31, 2002
...and I have no news.
Not good material for a journal entry, so here's a little story my Dad recounted to me a couple of days ago:
My brother Len is studying Film & TV Production at one of the country's most respected media faculties. He's currently working on a fairly big group project, a drama set in Chechnya. He's training to be a Director, but when someone else dropped out he had to take on the mantle of Producer on the film as well. For obvious reasons of economy the production is being shot in South East London, which apparently offers some suitably unpleasant locations, and is rather handily close to home for him!
The other morning, the crew were due to shoot in the centre of Woolwich. The entire production team, who had spent the previous night encamped at Len's house, assembled their equipment and headed for the location. Now understand that although this is a low-budget college production, the set-up is far from amateur - professional actors, a full crew (cinematographer, assistant directors, designers, lighting, costume, make-up, set dressers, continuity etc.) and vastly expensive resourses involving names you may recognise from big-budget film credits.
The first problem was easily solved. They'd failed to get the proper filming permit from Greenwich Council for the location, so they were shooting early on Dontbry morning and hoping to wrap and run before any officials or police turned up.
The second problem was rather worse, and infinitely more embarrasing. As the cast and crew were loading equipment, costumes and actors into vans and minibuses, their Producer realised something was missing.
The film. It was sitting at the college campus sixty miles away...
I bet that's never happened to Spielberg.
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Latest reply: Mar 31, 2002
Good News - Bad News
Posted Feb 8, 2002
My boss has finally seen sense and moved me back to a morning/afternoon shift. Of course he's totally forgotten that the original reorganisation was his idea (against the advice of myself and the other department heads involved), so now he's claiming credit for changing it back again.
Unfortunately, while this means that I may get back some semblance of a social life, it also has the effect that I won't be able to stay up until three in the morning. This therefore means I'll probably be online rather less often when my transatlantic chums (and many of my UK ones) are about.
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Thing 24th January - A YEAR OF H2G2
Posted Jan 24, 2002
It's just occured to me that it's exactly a year since I signed up to h2g2. It seems a lifetime ago. Of course it was a couple of months before I set up my personal space or got ACEd because of the site vanishing into the ether. Still, I got to know some interesting folks on the Yahoo site, and some of them still don't hate me!
To celebrate, I've finally sent the 'Scrumpy' entry to Peer Review (I wrote most of it in June!) and, of course, I'm off to the Winter Meet this weekend.
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