Movie magic
Carrie posted in What's happening on November 19th, 2008
As winter has settled on the region I’ve been feeling way less adventurous and more hermit-like. The bouldering wall in the basement means that people often spend their evenings here mucking about in the basement but they usually bring food and we often have big potlucks.
Holly has been visiting for the last week and a half, so we’ve had lots of parties and getogethers to maximize our time with her. It’s been a lot of fun with her around and we’ve enjoyed some long chats, lots of tea, and walks in the woods to get outside in the cold air a bit. There have been a number of foggy nights lately and it has resulted in some beautiful hoar-frost all over everything. It’s looks like an intricate lattice of snow flakes covering every single twig of every single branch and so delicate that to brush up against it causes it to flake off immediately. It’s makes EVERYTHING look like it’s been plastered (like the trees around the snow making machines on ski hills).
Recently I took on a job of making a slideshow for the All City Concert Band xmas concert. I guess they have a number of bands play in these concerts and while the bands are switching over they need something to keep the audience busy while we get set up. So they project pictures of the band members doing fun stuff together and play some music in the background. And, as long as I never have to do any fundraising I agreed to help with AV stuff, since that seems to be my focus as of late. This project turned out to be a much bigger undertaking than I had originally planned since there are some quirks with my programmes that don’t let me do exactly what it is I want to do. For example, iDVD won’t let me add motion to the pictures in the slideshow, and iPhoto won’t let me add more than one song so it just loops the same song over and over again. So after playing around with this stuff for a week I finally figured out that I need to make the slideshow in iMoive after all and that means adding motion individually to each photo. And since I’m going this far I figured I might as well do it really well and am making pictures line up with music and fixing the quotes they want me to add. Anything worth doing is worth doing well. So that’s been eating up a lot of my time lately.
Also, I showed the River Quest film to my friends and got some great feedback. Unfortunately that means quite a bit more work but as long as it’s done before Christmas I’m good. But as I work with these programmes I figure out little tricks and tips that make it easier every time. Just sitting at a computer all day and working on these little things to make them align perfectly is very tiring and there’s only so much I can do before I explode!
Other than that I’m still going with all my crazy activities. Thinking about switching into a senior skate on a different day than Monday because it’s super tough with hockey right after. I’m not sure if I’ll sign up for French next semester or not simply because I’m not sure if I’m getting what I want out of it. I mean it’s great for practicing my French but I can do that by watching French films and reading books/websites etc and not have to take this day off work essentially to do it (the course runs from noon - 2 on Thursdays). I just think that I’m not really retaining the grammar lessons etc so I’m not sure if it’s really working for me. I got suckered into volunteering as Camp manager for Girl Guides Yukon because they don’t have anyone with that experience but it’s such a small organisation here that it’ll be alright. Curling on Friday nights with the whole gang has been super fun and I hope we continue with that after the holidays.
I’m still working as a supply teacher now and again, enough to have some spare cash, but I’m definitely looking for more steady work. It’s just that not working is so much more fun!
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