To think, last week I was in a Comfort Inn in O'Fallon, Missouri, and this week I'm in a snazzy Hotel and Spa in Napa, California.

What's the difference?

This week I'm with the VP of the company. So she gets to stay at the nice places, and where she stays, I stay, too. I even get to be on the concierge level.

I haven't seen her in a while, and we've had a very up and down relationship over the past several years. Sometimes I'm on her good list, sometimes I'm on her bad. Looks like this week I'm on her good list. We were in the car driving to Napa for about an hour, and we had a pretty interesting talk, about work, people at work, the industry, etc. She also asked me about how my family was doing, and how I was doing, which was really nice. I know when she hired Fatima, she had a long talk with her about our mom, too. My VP had also lost her mother to cancer, she knows what I'm going through. It was nice to talk to someone who has been through what I've been through, and she was pretty frank with the range of emotions that she went through, and she told me that even though her mother had passed long ago, not a day goes by that she doesn't think about her, and to this day she still get angry that her mother is gone. I kinda figured that that's the way it's going to be from now on....but it's good to know that I'm not the only one.

Yesterday I helped a friend film a movie. It's been a while since I've done anything with acting, and I was pretty out of it. But it could also be because I was a little frustrated because I was told to be at the location at 10, so I woke up early because the drive was about an hour. Then after waking up and getting ready, I got a message that the time was pushed to 11. Those of you who know how much I love sleeping in on the weekends will know that this didn't make me happy. Then I got to the location, and no one was there yet. The owner of the house just let me watch TV while I waited. At around 11:30 my friend came with another person in his group, but we couldn't get any filming done til one of the other group members came, which ended up being around 12:30-1:00.

I don't mind helping out my friend. But I think I was just upset that I came on time, and we didn't get work started til hours later. Because of this, I stayed there til about 9pm. True, part of it was my fault because I couldn't get my lines right, but considering that I got the script the day of, I did what I could. I've never been one to have a good short term memory especially when it's a long chunk of speech. My weekends are really precious to me, especially weekends where Dave isn't on call. He may as well have been on call because by the time I got home he was tired, and today I had to leave to go to Oakland.

But I did have fun, which made up for it. I'm a little apprehensive as to how I'm going to look and sound, because seeing myself on film always makes me cringe. I'm really excited to see what the finished product is going to look like since we did a lot of green screen stuff. We'll see how that goes!

So tomorrow, I actually have no idea what I'm going to be doing, which is typical on trips with the VP. I think I could be teaching a class tomorrow. Or maybe installing the product. We talked about it in the car, but she wasn't clear and I didn't want to sound like I had no idea what's going on.

I'll just let myself be surprised tomorrow...

Posted by Yano at February 22, 2004 11:06 PM

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