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Jun. 18th, 2026 10:42 am1.) After watching the Knicks Ticker Tap Parade on the News this morning, and various outtakes on social media - I felt validated for choosing to take today off - and doing a doctor's appointment at 1 pm in Brooklyn.
Babs: Did you go in to work today? (Babs is still in Jamaica)
Me: Nope, and Breaking Bad took the day off too.
Babs: Good. The email said they expected 3 Million Plus.
I woke up a bit on the wobbly side with my equilibrium off, and it wasn't until now that I felt more in balance - due to sinuses (allergies). ( Read more... )
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Optometrist appointment went well. ( Read more... )
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My cousin is off on Safari (in Kenya and Nambia, and Tanzania). She's been posting photos of hippos, zebras, giraffs, rhinos, and now a female lion, on FB. ( Read more... )
Speaking of FB/social media - per FB - a few old Victorian Brownstones caught fire and burned - just up the block from my apartment complex. Thankfully, everyone is fine.
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Outside of these pesky health concerns, I'm doing okay? I made three bean salad tonight for dinner - basically used the beans for Chili - for a salad instead. ( Read more... )
I am getting tired of all the doctors appointments. But alas, they are necessary to monitor and keep my health in check. ( Read more... )
The barometric pressure seems to have elevated finally? No storms coming our way at the moment. Also the wind has died down, and we just have a slight breeze. (I can tell - I have a lot of trees outside my living room window). I no longer have the sinus headache and dizziness. Or the painful fullness in the ears. I actually had a vestibular specialist verify for me - that that is mainly what is causing my problems. So am relieved. I was worried about getting to and from the knee doctor for my injection tomorrow morning.
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Rather enjoying VOX Machina - partly because it has an intelligent slow burn romance, more than one. And is for the most part intelligently written ( a rarity with animated films - most of them are like video games, or crude situation comedies).
Also, listened to a podcast interview with a long-term soap/television writer - who goes back to the late 1970s. ( trigger warning about rape ) And damn, television writing is insane? Particularly for soaps? They have no time to correct anything or fix it - they are writing the next script as they finish the last one. And there's a head-writer who structures the story and gives it to the breakdown writer who breaks down the characters, plot, and where everyone is in the story for the script, the script writer who has to keep track of where everyone is in the story, what happened in the last script and continuity, and write the script, then there is the dialogue writer, and then it gets edited, and then looked at by the head writers, and gets notes from the network (sometimes) - and then it is sent to the director and the actors, about five or six hours before it is filmed.
Talk about convoluted collaborative processes. Not only that - it's rare to write for a television series where the network doesn't dictate casting, character, and plot. You can be tripping along happy go lucky with your storyline, and some network or studio head could turn around and drop a nasty bombshell on you out of the blue that derails the entire story or sends it scurrying in another direction. I don't know about anyone else? But that would drive me insane.
I think it's kind of miraculous good episodes come out of that at all (and there are few) but it's not surprising that continuity gets lost in the mix.
Oh - to get a job on this - you need to write a sample script - and it has to demonstrate that you know the pacing, genre, etc of the show. Each show apparently has its own footprint - and you have to demonstrate that you know the foot print. Apparently Steven DeKnight's audition script for Buffy was a Xander centric script - where Xander became the slayer for a day. Television writing isn't easy - it requires writing on demand, in a specific style, and knowing the characters that often someone else created. (I couldn't do it - I'm too much like my father - I write better if its about my own characters. When I write about someone else's it becomes my interpretation of their characters, which feels fake or not truthful somehow - and I can't quite get past that? While I can, when others do it, mainly because I'm curious about their take on the characters. )
Off to watch Vox Machina.
Babs: Did you go in to work today? (Babs is still in Jamaica)
Me: Nope, and Breaking Bad took the day off too.
Babs: Good. The email said they expected 3 Million Plus.
I woke up a bit on the wobbly side with my equilibrium off, and it wasn't until now that I felt more in balance - due to sinuses (allergies). ( Read more... )
***
Optometrist appointment went well. ( Read more... )
***
My cousin is off on Safari (in Kenya and Nambia, and Tanzania). She's been posting photos of hippos, zebras, giraffs, rhinos, and now a female lion, on FB. ( Read more... )
Speaking of FB/social media - per FB - a few old Victorian Brownstones caught fire and burned - just up the block from my apartment complex. Thankfully, everyone is fine.
***
Outside of these pesky health concerns, I'm doing okay? I made three bean salad tonight for dinner - basically used the beans for Chili - for a salad instead. ( Read more... )
I am getting tired of all the doctors appointments. But alas, they are necessary to monitor and keep my health in check. ( Read more... )
The barometric pressure seems to have elevated finally? No storms coming our way at the moment. Also the wind has died down, and we just have a slight breeze. (I can tell - I have a lot of trees outside my living room window). I no longer have the sinus headache and dizziness. Or the painful fullness in the ears. I actually had a vestibular specialist verify for me - that that is mainly what is causing my problems. So am relieved. I was worried about getting to and from the knee doctor for my injection tomorrow morning.
****
Rather enjoying VOX Machina - partly because it has an intelligent slow burn romance, more than one. And is for the most part intelligently written ( a rarity with animated films - most of them are like video games, or crude situation comedies).
Also, listened to a podcast interview with a long-term soap/television writer - who goes back to the late 1970s. ( trigger warning about rape ) And damn, television writing is insane? Particularly for soaps? They have no time to correct anything or fix it - they are writing the next script as they finish the last one. And there's a head-writer who structures the story and gives it to the breakdown writer who breaks down the characters, plot, and where everyone is in the story for the script, the script writer who has to keep track of where everyone is in the story, what happened in the last script and continuity, and write the script, then there is the dialogue writer, and then it gets edited, and then looked at by the head writers, and gets notes from the network (sometimes) - and then it is sent to the director and the actors, about five or six hours before it is filmed.
Talk about convoluted collaborative processes. Not only that - it's rare to write for a television series where the network doesn't dictate casting, character, and plot. You can be tripping along happy go lucky with your storyline, and some network or studio head could turn around and drop a nasty bombshell on you out of the blue that derails the entire story or sends it scurrying in another direction. I don't know about anyone else? But that would drive me insane.
I think it's kind of miraculous good episodes come out of that at all (and there are few) but it's not surprising that continuity gets lost in the mix.
Oh - to get a job on this - you need to write a sample script - and it has to demonstrate that you know the pacing, genre, etc of the show. Each show apparently has its own footprint - and you have to demonstrate that you know the foot print. Apparently Steven DeKnight's audition script for Buffy was a Xander centric script - where Xander became the slayer for a day. Television writing isn't easy - it requires writing on demand, in a specific style, and knowing the characters that often someone else created. (I couldn't do it - I'm too much like my father - I write better if its about my own characters. When I write about someone else's it becomes my interpretation of their characters, which feels fake or not truthful somehow - and I can't quite get past that? While I can, when others do it, mainly because I'm curious about their take on the characters. )
Off to watch Vox Machina.