On one hand, I have lots of work to do and I'm very busy all the time. I'm really enjoying the work and being in London. I feel pretty comfortable getting around, which is a big shift from when I started this.
Today, I got to the train station and the computer that runs the electronic sign was down, so the sign only showed the time, not which trains were coming next. But I knew that any train that stopped and was going north would take me to London Bridge, so I just waited for a couple of minutes and hoped on. Sure enough, I made it to London Bridge with no trouble.
When I got downstairs to the Underground, though, the train that was standing at the platform was packed and clearly not going anywhere soon. Then an announcement came that there was a power supply failure and that the Jubilee line was suspended. The cool thing was that I knew how to hop over to the Northern Line, switch to the Central Line, and get myself to work. Amazingly, I was still arrived early! I don't think I could have done that 5 months ago without a lot of head-scratching and asking for a lot of help.
At work, I'm down to the "let's get this done and make a movie" part of the project. This is the part where all the research should be done, all the ideas tried and sifted through, and now it's just down to execution. I still have some researching and methods to try, so I hope to get that out of the way quickly, but in all, I'm pretty close. And we're getting lots of pretty pictures out, which is fun.
BTW, there's a new trailer out that played during the Super Bowl. My shot didn't make it into this cut, but there's about 8 frames of the werewolf and hag from Aslan's How, which is kind of cool.
But on the other hand, I'm starting to really look forward to going home and getting back to my "real" life. I really feel as if I'm in another world like Narnia, and it's almost time for me to go through the magic door back to my world. And I also feel like Peter, knowing that it's ok. It's not really homesickness, because I don't feel that disconnected from California. But there's a longing for the familiar and comfortable.
Anyway, that's how I'm feeling at this point. I guess I'm mostly sharing this with myself; so that in a year or so, I can look back at this and remember what I was feeling at the time.
Dave
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