Heat and Hotties on the Beach

Now that I've grabbed your attention...

When I say heat, I mean the fry-an-egg-on-your-forehead weather on Long Island (in Boston Harbor) on Tuesday, and by hotties on the beach I mean the 50 overheated campers being filmed by a camera crew that included yours truly. There's nothing quite like the feeling of sweat trickling down your back (and your nose, and your knees, and your neck) as you lug around a fancy tripod possibly weighing more than you do in 101 degree humid, suffocating heat.

But it is my first professional shoot and well worth it, even if I don't actually get to touch the camera unless it is to move it from one location to another. My big accomplishment for the day was organizing the kids to stand in formation to look like the aquarium logo (essentially a big fish in a circle. We skipped the lines, if you know what it looks like). It worked pretty darn well if I may say so myself (and I do). Then yesterday, we had the gift of perfect weather in Nahant and I got to play around in tide pools as an added bonus to the filming.

In other news... I was in NY city last weekend to see Spamalot (a very, very belated B-day present from my parents) in which my mother's cousin's daughter's husband is a standby (yeah, read that one again) and we got to go backstage and meet up with him and Lisa (who I think works out to be my 2nd cousin?) afterward. Turns out he's working on a film of his own and is looking for some production assistants for a shoot this August in Michigan, so I sent in my resume (cross your fingers).

That's all for now, I'm completely wiped and need to sleep.

Love you lots,

Amanda

ps- Has anyone else noticed that half of my posts are in parentheses?