Another day in techie world at the school. I tooled in this morning at 6.30am only to arrive at 8.25am... how come it only it only took an hour yesterday but nearly two hours this morning? It didn't seem like a longer journey, but took twice as long. Maybe I have "missing time"? Perhaps I should book myself in for a CAT scan to see if I have any foreign objects lodged in my brain.

Got to the theatre and set up the interactive video for today's sessions. Whereas there was a bunch of people around to help yesterday I was all alone today, so good job I arrived a little early. The tutor arrived and being an almost exclusively TV/Film technician, I had no idea how to turn on the lighting desk or any other theatre stuff. A few embarrassing moments were soon shortened by a call to Rob and Gary who helped set it all up yesterday, and all was well.

Spent most of the day planning my lessons for next term, catching up with all the email and equipment ordering I've missed over the past few weeks, and tidying my office space, which becomes cluttered with empty cardboard boxes, discarded leads and bits of equipment etc. if left too long. Felt way better afterwards. Also checked out the video clips online on the Clerks 2 site, which I imagine will end up on the DVD eventually. Really funny stuff, including a solution to a mystery I've been wondering about since "Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back". I won't spoil the surprise, just go to The Clerks 2 Web Site and find out for yourself.

Spent a bit of time on the way home putting the kit away at the theatre, then home to a relaxing night of heaving (with Mia's help) two huge bed bases up all the way to the top of the house, then after she'd gone out screwing them together and putting my daughter's matress back on it. I seemed to spend the entire evening heaving something heavy up flights of stairs, pretty much what I do through most of my working life, so not much of a break... sigh

Mia will be back soon and I hope we'll have another episode of season 2 of "Medium" downloaded. God bless DVD/DiVX players. If you haven't seen "Medium" I HIGHLY recommend it. Patricia Arquette is sexy mom incarnate, and the DuBois family are by far my favourite TV family of the moment. So my current TV favourites are "Medium", "Lost" of course, "Desperate Housewives", "Huff", "Stargate SG-1/Atlantis" and "Threshold". I'll maybe go into my reasons for liking these shows in a while, but I'm so shagged from lifting all that crap into the roof, I'll leave that for another time.

Been thinking a lot about my film today too. I'm thinking no matter if it is a short or a feature, I'm going to shoot it Sin City style against green screens. I got some green screen paint in the paint shop at work and some old theatre flats, so making up some screens should be a snap. Plus I'm somthing of a 3D whiz being a long time user of Newtek's Lightwave 3D. Just teaching myself version 8 at the moment. Just in time for version 9 to come out. Tsk! Plus I'm just learning eyeon Fusion, which frankly is hands down top five the most fun I've ever had with my pants on. I haven't been this excited about a piece of software since I first got into Lightwave around version 1.0. More of this later.