varying degrees of light

We spent eleven hours filming today.

I got out of class at 2:50 and headed to library to pick up equipment and peoples and arrange last minute pick ups for additional props and missing items. For a while, I had both cell phones going (we recently switched networks from Alltel to Verizon and I still have my old phone activated through the end of the month, and because the old number is still how people know to find me) and had supporting actor, assistant head-of-crew, magician and good friend Justin Meissner play assistant to me.

That was really great. I felt like Meryl Streep.

I don't want to relay the entire night, hour-by-hour here because it will all start again, with more complex scenes and stunts (!) and so forth in a matter of hours... and the initial high I was riding one when I got back to my apartment, now about half an hour ago, is wearing me down and I'm beginning to collapse. That energy at the end of the day, after going several, several hours swinging... what to do with that last energy? I'm lucky I caught a few friends up before they retreated to their beds, if just to say hello and goodnight and so forth.

I'm crazy about it.

We're on our way, and I'll be much more gushy and explanatory and specific when we've completed our task - I'll spell out every person involved and, by then, we'll be raising our glasses and dance and dance and dance and collapse in happy exhaustion. And we'll have fun getting there too because even though the cold was deadly tonight, in the early AM hours, when we were filming our last scene of the day, outside, I was bouncing in place, trying not to make noise, because of how perfect the scene was coming together.

More later, I promise. It will make sense later.

Goodnight.