Nervous Today

So now I am starting to get nervous. I've got the trailer shoot coming up this weekend and while I know what I need to do and I am totally looking forward to getting it done, I am nervous b/c I am having to rely on so many people in order to make it all happen. #1 Cause of Concern is, of course, my father, Laszlo. He is one of the most unreliable people in the history of the universe and I am SO scared he's gonna... I don't even want to say. And even if all the logistical stuff does happen as planned, I don't want him distracting me and bringing me down by being his mean, impatient, loud self and giving me a hard time and just generally being a source of ongoing continual stress and aggravation.

But if I can get past that Chomolungma (Mt. Everest) of potential trouble, then I am still trying to coordinate the interview shoots with my main interviewees. The Lt., her mother, and her husband the Major have confirmed a 4pm shoot time on Sunday at their house. I have followed up with the Asst. Chief for around that same time, also at their house. At some point I need to shoot Mudflap on the track outside the Academy and he is already giving me a hard time about when to do this and I am pretty much ready to strangle him or at least Taser him. I need to also get INSIDE the academy for some B-roll footage and therefore I need to find someone who has the key and alarm code for this. I have several names and I just need to pin someone down to commit. Finally I want to get a shot of the Asst. Chief in his dental office, but when can we do this? I've got limited windows of time to get all this footage shot THIS WEEKEND!!!

No wonder Scorsese was a cokehead and Joe Gideon (Bob Fosse) was on speed. Crap, I still gotta go buy that 250 gig external hard drive too...!

But after tonight, the rest of this week should be pretty open so I can wrap all this stuff up and be ready to hit the ground running beginning Saturday. Tonight we are going to try our 3rd attempt to have that CPS lady come visit me and S. So I should be able to go get the hard drive tomorrow night after work. Weds. night is free for me to do more planning. Thursday is my birthday and at this point, it's the least of my concerns which is SO unlike me!!!

Just had a pretty cool weekend, though. Discovery Green park on Sat. was awesome. I sat in the shade with a cold lemonade and my book for the day (Murder By Family, started at the park and finished last night) and watched the baby frolic in the water park and then the playground. I ran into my friend Ricky H. there. Then I raced home to drop baby off with S and get to the MFAH for the Latin Wave film fest movie, Lake Tahoe, made in Mexico. It made me cry! It was extremely slow-paced but very wonderful and sad and funny. The director was supposed to be there to introduce the film and do Q&A afterwards but he did not want to fly in from Mexico due to that H1N1. Turns out the movie was based on an actual event in his life. Lovely film!

Sunday was spent all day in the Academy for a required training class and the less said about that the better, though it was instrumental in me finishing my book in only 2 days!