Do you realize how fast you were going?

Quick update on the Cenex Shoot here. I left the house at six pm last night, and returned home at 6am. Wow. After sleeping most of the day away, I decided to submit a quick post. It was a fun shoot . . . and when I was filling out my paperwork, I realized that the paycheck is going to be much better than I expected. Awesome. I basically had to just meanmug the "Cenex guy" for 30 seconds, and then radio for the canine unit.

It was fun to put on the State Trooper monkey suit, but something about wearing a badge and gun made me feel immediately like an a-hole. Sweet. I don't think that this spot will air in Colorado-it sounds like the distribution is limited to five or six midwest states, but I've been guaranteed a copy, so I'll share it eventually.

In other news-The Saints swept the Saltdogs for the divisional crown, and are championship-bound! So, I don't get to work tonight, but I'll be at the first two games of the Championship on Monday and Tuesday! We're squaring off against either the El Paso Diablos or the Ft. Worth Cats. Go Saints!

Next Wednesday is the Comcast shoot. This is one of those great stretches where I'm constantly doing things that I love doing. Unfortunately, I haven't had any agency auditions since I booked this work, so I'm not sure what's on the horizon, but it's nice right now.

Hope everyone is doing great! School's up for everyone, and fall is right around the corner. Talk to you kids soon!

Vacation Pics!

Well Hello Everyone!

It's been a busy few weeks up here in Minny . . . but everything is going pretty well. Mom and Dad's visit was great, despite the fact that the Saints went 0-3 during the trip. They won for the remainder of the season though, and ended the second half of the season in First Place, which means we're in the Playoffs! Awesome. We're squaring off against the Lincoln Saltdogs in a best-of-five series beginning tonight in Lincoln. That means that games three (on the 30th) and four (on the 31st, if necessary) will be at Midway Stadium, with game five (if necessary) returning to Nebraska. If we win, then we'll be in the Championship series the following week. Very Exciting.

I've got mixed feelings, because I won't be able to work the game of the 30th, which may or may not be the final Saints game of the year. I would love to be there, but I booked a commercial (for Cenex-an engine lubricant) that has an overnight shoot that night. Damn. And Hooray.

I also booked a commercial for Comcast, which shoots next week. Man, when it rains, it pours!

In the meanwhile, I'm increasing my Segway hours and getting ready for Nate (Schroeder) and Karen's wedding on the 7th. The old gang is all converging on the Twin Cities, and we're heading up to the North Shore for a weekend of Celebration. Should be fun! I'll break all this down in greater detail soon, but for now, here's some pictures from the trip!

Robo-Parents . . . the future is now!! (Nobody Crashed . . . mostly)

How Many Mikes? A Grizzalicious Pose.

Warming up before the game! (My arm is still sore!)

Sitting Between the Rain. (On a side note, notice the person sitting directly behind Dad? Two games after this one, a kid was sitting in that seat, and took a line-drive foul ball to the face. It was one of the most brutal shots I'd ever seen. At last update, the kid had a broken cheek bone, but was otherwise going to be OK.)

Chillin' with the 'Gooch. Oh you know, just hanging out with former gold-medal winner Kristi Yamaguci. She was one of several celebrities who played in the Mark Parrish Softball Fundraiser the other night. I made her laugh.

peace

Short post: UGH!

Well, what a day today will be. I had a tools seminar to attend at 8am this morning, so I had to get up at 5:15 to be on a 5:53 bus. I ended up getting to Denver about half an hour earlier than I had anticipated, which was nice, but for some reason I failed to take advantage of the opportunity to obtain caffeine. I have the tools seminar from 8 to 10, class from 10 to 11, and then a studio class from 1 to 5:30, then home again, home again, getting there around 7pm. What a long day.

I was supposed to take a shot last night, but I don't have medicine. CuraScript, my mail-order pharmacy, is trying to work out my insurance. I'm getting in touch with them after class today to get my dose for tomorrow.

Anyway, that's my very short update. Love you guys! Post more!

It's official...

I'm In Grown-Up School! It's quite exhilarating and scary, kinda like a roller coaster is scary. I'm seriously loving it, but when I try to explain what I love so much, it sounds really stupid. Like, I have never been so excited about pencils and rulers (but to be fair, I've never seen such cool pencils and rulers). Today, what we did was, we reproduced images of elevations (an outside view of a building from one face, not at an angle) and floorplans to a different scale. It involved drawing many, many straight lines. (I'm not advanced enough to draw curved lines just yet.) Tomorrow, we're doing measured drawings of elevations at angles, which means: we take two adjacent outside views (like, for example, the north and west views), and set them at an angle so that we see both, and draw both without using perspective. It's going to be cool. Just take my word for it.

I focus so hard on my work in this class and it stimulates my creative glands so much that I am starting to really really look forward to the real classes. I got a 16-page syllabus of my "Intro to Building Technology" class, and saw this: "Lecture 1: Mud". I laughed, but I think it's going to be challenging. It involves weekly site visits, and the final project is a "site report," which I'm not sure what that means. In any case, it's making me nervous.

In other news, the commute is actually quite pleasant. The bus is quick and painless, and downtown Denver isn't as stinky, ugly and dirty as I thought it would be (my way of saying, it's kinda pretty from 3-4 floors up). The rooms are air conditioned, and I haven't had to put up with any heat to speak of. Branden has been so wonderful, packing my lunches and making dinner and having it ready when I get home and cleaning the house. I'm gonna have to start pitching in more when his school starts, but for now it's been extremely nice.

I got together with Noah today for lunch. I had forgotten my lunch at home, and even though Noah only had, like, 15mins, he brought me some delicious Noah-made chicken and rice and onions and green peppers....It was really, really good. And it was nice to not starve :) We're getting together again tomorrow to actually spend some real time together. He got to see the studio and the project I was working on at the time (which I ended up scrapping and starting over, but that's okay).

What else? Shots are going fine, no complaints. I'll update again when "real" classes start. Ciao for now, lovely fam! <3