Finals

I focused on my studies last week and felt pretty prepared for my final on Wednesday. I'm not sure how I did, but I feel okay about it. We had a separate final for our clinical portion on Saturday (yesterday), and I got a 98% on it. The question I missed was a little shady, and I was going to contest it, but whatever, a 98 is still pretty good. This week the second half of the semester begins (the Home Health Aide portion).

I hate being in school while I'm in it, but when I wrap up a class, semester or school year, I'm so happy that I did it. It makes me feel like I was really productive that year. I don't say, where did my year go? Because I know that it went to a specific thing, so then it's okay.

I'm finally getting around to reading the last book in the Twilight series. It's pretty thick. I'm not as emotionally invested in it for some reason, though. I'm just reading it because I like to finish things I've started.

Speaking of finishing things you start, my editor dropped out on me. Totally understandable; it's been a few years now that she's worked on this. But it's frustrating because we're so close to the end. Like it was going to be done this June, and all she would have to do is hitch up the completed audio (done by somebody else) to the already-completed picture. We didn't have a falling out. She's just burned out and busy. So, whatever. I can't expect anything more than that when I'm not paying anyone. I appreciate the work she did do. I'm kind of scared to hand off everything to a stranger, so I think I'll try to bribe her to stick it out a little longer.

Filmmaking is a very lonely business. Not one person who started with me will cross the finish line with me, having stayed throughout the whole thing. I kind of want to recruit my crazy CNA friends to go into making movies with me, though... they're some real 'ride or die' chicks. The kind that would stay with you 'til the end. I was thinking about broaching it to a few on Friday, but then one of the girls surprised us all mid-story by re-enacting choking out her boyfriend on me and it got a little scary because I couldn't breathe. But honestly, after the shock wore off and I was able to catch my breath, it was just the funniest thing in the world! Maybe you had to be there. But it did make me wonder if it was a good idea to go into business with somebody who could choke somebody if she got mad enough. (I changed my mind about it being funny. See comments below).

My car broke down on me on Saturday after I finished my clinical. I dropped it off at my mechanic's shop. I was going to walk home the ten miles, or try to find a bus somewhere (he just moved to a remote, industrial area), but he insisted I take (one of?) his car (just a loan 'til he finishes fixing mine)! He's just the sweetest man in the world. He's offered it several times before (my car breaks down a lot... so much that I think people think I'm using it as an excuse, but I'm not), and I usually say no, but I was just too tired and defeated to say no this time. So I very gratefully took his sweet little Volvo home. I had a birthday party to go to that night, but was scared to let anything happen to his car, so I just stayed home. I plan to stay home today, too, except to pick up the material from my editor.

Which reminds me... I should probably start looking for a new editor now...