Wrap it up, I'll take it.

Been Christmas busy lately, good and bad.  Realized that the disruption of my schedule, due to classes ending and holiday *stuff* throws me off.  You get used to a schedule, like everyone who goes in 9-5 can attest to, and it becomes comfortable.  It really takes a specific frame of mind to roll with changes to a daily schedule and continue to be productive and feel accomplished.  Eh, life's a learning process right?

Had the first actual "table read" the other day, which was amazing.  Big thank you to all my friends who were able to participate.  Even had a long distance connection from Mat's place in DC!  Fantastic.  As much as I hope the work was good, more than that my hope was that my friends would feel comfortable enough to critique it intelligently and in a helpful way.  They totally hit it out of the park.  I got great comments from them and I think it was successful simply because they all felt comfortable in critiqueing. 

I thrive on critical assessment of my work.  Whether it's actual office work or creative stuff, I'm a bit of a bad self critic.  Knowing that I can trust someone's opinions of my work is HUGE for me, and so the results were perfect.

The cool thing was a lot of the commentary was things that I had knocking around in my head too.  That tells me I'm onto something and at least can identify some issues on my own.  Of course the next and only SLIGHTLY important part is solving those problems, but identification is the first step.  There were plenty of things that I hadn't seen, which was great, so all of it was rewarding for me. 

Kudos to all my friends who stepped up and sacrificed their Sunday night to help me out.  You all performed fantastically!

Oh, and I haven't abandoned the redesign, at this point, I'm thinking of targeting the new year for that.

And the Bears fucking suck.

MotD:  The Pink Panther & The Pink Panther Returns

I enjoy Peter Sellers, he's marvelously talented, but I'd never sat down to watch any of the Panther movies.  my dad used to watch these a lot and a friend of mine was recently talking them up so I got the itch.  Eh, could have done without the scratch.  I thought I was waching the first two of the movies, but as I was writing this, I realized there were EIGHT Panther movies?  2 or 3 don't even have Sellers, one of them made with him using posthumous footage?  Blake Edwards milked this like a teat, apparently.  Oh, and that 8 doesn't include the two new Steve Martin versions. 

These have their moments, fun characters, witty dialogue and the requisite slapstick.  But overall I wasn't in love with them.  I think I'll watch at least two more of the sequels, just to feel like I got it out of the way, but overall I was nonplussed here.  Nothing makes me want to watch the Martin ones.  NOTHING.