by Ira | Nov 4, 2014 | Challenge, Journal
Today was a success. A full work day. Now I just need to string several of them together, huh? It was a combination of putting my head down and not getting distracted, and some good fortune in that a couple easy lessons made themselves available. I feel good, at...
by Ira | Nov 3, 2014 | Challenge, Journal
That’s what I had going into today. There were places to go and people to see, and it was all going to stop around 11am so I could sit down and bang out a solid day of editing work, which is what I get paid to do after all… …it was not meant to be....
by Ira | Nov 2, 2014 | Challenge, Journal
I had a good work day today. Not great, but good. It was a good first step from yesterday, that’s for sure 😛 I’m consistently reminded by this blog of how much I define myself in terms of my work. It’s most often what I go to bed thinking about. And,...
by Ira | Nov 1, 2014 | Challenge, Journal
Yup. Okay…well, maybe I don’t *really* think that, but I definitely FEEL like it today. I just had a shit day in terms of being productive. For the life of me, I couldn’t focus. I got my pages done, but even those were painful. And work? Forget about...
by Ira | Oct 31, 2014 | Challenge, Journal
It’s raining right now outside my window. It rained every Halloween night for like the first four years or so that I moved down here to LA. It was kind of the ushering in of the fall. Rain usually started late September or the first week or so of October up in...
by Ira | Oct 30, 2014 | Challenge, Film, Journal, Reviews
Not devoting an entire blog entry tonight to this early Oscar-contender, but I will give it a nod in the title because it was quite good. First off, I went into this movie knowing *literally* nothing about it. No idea what the premise was, who was even in it until it...