Calm and then blammo....

I was having such a problem getting motivated at work. Then blamo…everything hit at once. Now Im incredibly busy. Project #3 which already had 10 edits and has been duplicated with 1000 dvd’s is now being redone. The revised script makes it almost like an entirely new project. The good thing is that we get to charge for the re-edit so its almost like a new client. We’ll make changes all day long as long as the client pays for it. But the final product has very little resemblance to the original. The original was so nice and poetic, yet this thing has been so chopped up by the political powers that be, its quite homogenous now. At least I have the director’s cut. William Goldman, the famous American Screenwriter, once said if you can keep 50% of your original draft by the time you hit the screen…consider yourself a huge success. Well…I’ve kept about 20% of the original draft. I’ll post it on youtube after the event.

Now the tricky part for me is that they want all these changes done by Dec. 6. Im leaving for 11 days on Thursday. So Im going to pass the project off to Nader. Hopefully he’ll be able to get most of it done by the time I get back. I so need this vacation…even though it’s a short one…Im going to be doing everything I can not to think about work while Im away. Oh…and another troubling thing about my trip. Once people find out that you are traveling back to the U.S. they say…would you mind picking me up something….one person is fine, two people ok…but what a hassle for six. They are only asking for one or two items but when you multiply it by 6. Oh well…I’ll try to keep a good attitude about it all.

Tomorrow is going to be a big day. We have our sixth version of The Funniest Person in Bahrain tomorrow night. I have to script out the scenarios. Even though it is improv, it’s a lot of work for me doing the show rundown creating scenarios to which my actors can excel. I just love brightening people’s lives and laughter is such a good way to do that. My actors really take pride in it as well. At first they were very nervous and when they were nervous they went for the easy humor with the sex jokes. But Ive been hammering them to be more creative than that. It really has been working.

This is kind of a strange little thing, but I think it gives a little bit of insight into me. I woke up this morning with a voicemail from my youngest son. It wasn’t much…just Daddy call me back. Just hearing his voice made my day. I miss those kids…a lot. I’m really looking forward to seeing them again.