Life changes, sometimes quickly

I haven’t forsaken my blog, I swear it. I just got very sick and then very busy. During those sick weeks, my life sort of got rearranged…for the better, but it’s just not the same thing it was before RT.

Part of the change was because I agreed to do something rather odd… I agreed to dance the Cancan while costumed as Leeloo from the Fifth Element. Come to WorldCon and catch the costume Masquerade. The show I’m dancing in is the half-time show.

Yeah. Not only am I soooooo not a dancer, I also had to build my costume. Believe me, cancan dresses are quite involved. I’m about half way through construction and while I love it, good grief, what a lot of work!

But the one thing I can say for certain is that I’m learning a lot. A helluva lot.

Also, in the life changing department, Jason and I plus a couple friends have started up a wine review site featuring video podcasts. We’re trying to break the barrier between wine snobs and the general public. We don’t want to use colorful language (ie. our reviewer would never describe the ‘nose’ of a wine, he’d say, “smells like…”) and we want to be accessible to everyone, not just people with boatloads of money.

See for yourself at wineass.com.

I’ve learned so much just in these last couple months, it’s incredible. I have learned how to edit video and sew a mean pair of bloomers.

But, I tell ya, I can’t wait until September…or at least until after WorldCon so that my life can chill out and get back to…uh…well…”normal”.

Numb3rs

Very long day, but not a bad experience.

Upon arrival at the abandoned hospital location, I became aware that there were two productions sharing the place. Unfortunately, the production I was working on was the least obvious. See, the basecamps sort of glommed together and where I was supposed to be was down in the loading dock. Everyone I asked failed to mention that tidbit and I ended up walking around the building a time and a half.

Which gave me blisters.

Yeah. Before the day had started, my heels had grown blisters the size of nickels. And we were there for 13 hours…walking through frame.

Well, it wasn’t all walking through frame…

I went to wardrobe and got my scrubs. (I was playing a nurse.) The girl who handed them to me said that they were Mediums and that they’d be a little big on me. I went to change and I actually felt the need to back to the wardrobe trailer and ask if I looked okay. I felt like I was wearing a tent and I had to pull the pants up and roll the waisband in order not to trip on them. The costumers said I looked, “Very comfortable that day,” so I shrugged and walked away. I really don’t care what I’m wearing, I just don’t want the costumer to look like an idiot for putting me in something wrong, wrong, wrong.

At that point, I went to my car and changed shoes, but it was too late. The damage had already been done. Thankfully, my other pair wasn’t as tight and I was able to slide my heels away a little.

The prop guys set us all up with badges and name tags. I became an Orderly named Jordan. Nice.

The first few hours were great. I sat in holding and read a book. CRAZY HOT by Tara Janzen. OMG, it was incredible. By the time we were called to the set, I was deeply engrossed and didn’t want to put the book down so I brought it with me.

Right from the get-go, I could tell that the day would be long, but not difficult.

I was placed and when the time came, I crossed up, then halfway down, then across, then all the way down. Ignoring my blisters became more and more difficult with all of that walking.

Most of the day was spent doing either all or portions of that sequence and in between, I read CRAZY HOT. It was so freakin’ good!!!! People were asking me what I was reading and noticing my progress on it.

After two more scenes, I finished the book and was almost disappointed just because it was sooooooo good I wanted more!!!!

I wish I had more to report from this shoot, but apparently I missed the good stuff. They’d done a stunt before coming to the hospital location. Ah well. Maybe next time.

I don’t even have any good spoilers because I couldn’t hear most of the conversations going on. *sigh* At least it was a great crew and I did have fun–even when my nose wasn’t buried in CRAZY HOT.