LancesWorld.com Journal

OK folks, so it is currently 7:45 p.m. and let me just tell you - I have already eaten my dinner. And not just some dinner I picked up at a dive restaurant. NO, I came home and cooked dinner myself. And then proceeded to eat it and do the dishes - all accomplished by 7:45 p.m. This is absolutely amazing. I forgot what it was like to actually have a life outside of work and sleep. So, I made myself a pizza for dinner tonight. I don't often make pizza - I think I've made a total of three in the past 8 months - so I rather enjoy it when I make one of my own. It was a tasty pizza with a 6-cheese blend, hot italian sausage and black olives. Mmm... I also fried up some more of the sausage for the meal I am preparing for myself tomorrow. I am going to make a yummy rice pilaf/sausage dish that my mom turned me onto. It's tasty, and easy to make.

Well, apparently I'm going to be working on Treasure Island for another few days this week. It seems that there is some trouble getting the production office wrapped out, so I'm being sent in to do some damage control. Haha... just kidding. I guess they just need an extra body to help wrap things up in a timely manner, so I've been elected as the person to do that job. Tomorrow morning before hitting up the island I guess I have to stop by Whole Foods and buy some fresh fruits for a woman named Doris. Apparently she was one of Chris Columbus' former teachers who is now battling cancer (I believe). So I am going to buy some fruit for her to use in the juicer that Chris bought for her. It's a nice gesture.

Boy, I had to lug some very heavy sound blankets around today. Our music editorial group is working not far from the 1492 office where I am. The building they are in is on a pretty busy street, and apparently they are having some trouble with noise while they are trying to work. When your job is to edit music, I guess it's a good idea not to have too many extraneuous noises polluting the work environment. So it turns out we had some sound blankets in a hidden closet in our Rehearsal Hall on the island. I had to go and get them and take them to the music building. When I was on my way, I thought I was just picking up some simple insulated blankets, but these were the real thing - fiber glass insulated blankets made of spage-age materials. Let me tell you - these things were heavy. So I loaded the blankets into my car and trekked them to the music editorial space. Now, if you know San Francisco, it's not the kind of place where you can just pull up to the door of most buildings. No, I had to park my car in a garage almost a block away and then lug the blankets up a hill and then up to the fourth floor of the Zoetrope building. Thankfully Erich, from the music group, did come and help out, so I wasn't doing it all alone, and thankfully we did have elevator access, which made life easier, but still, not an easy job to do. I think we calculated the weight of the blankets at roughly 50,000 pounds each, give or take 49,950 pounds.

Well, I now have 3-4 hours to do whatever I want before I have to go to bed. So, I'll sign off from this post. Good night, and see you soon!