Sunday 10th July 2011

Another busy week for this little munky. The usual catching up with friends here and there in between my rare 9-5 work week, coffee catch ups, lunches,  industry networking, ice skating at the beach, a delayed hangover, lack of sleep and a few quiet nights in. ;-)

I have been to a couple of industry networking do's lately and what I got out of it was that I've done a lot in my career, and I am very happy to be working at the moment. Unfortunately, a large number of participants are wanna be filmmakers not quite working in the industry. I had people ask me what a DOP and and AD do. Now, I don't expect everyone to know this, but if you claim to be in the industry you should really should know some basics. Besides all that it was a great catchup with industry friends who do know what  an AD does.

That was Thursday night - I got home at 2am, my alarm went off at 8 and I was in the office by 9. A can of V and numerous cups of tea saw me through the day and after a good serve of dumplings and  another can of V I headed to Bondi Beach to go ice skating with my girls. Yes - Ice skating on Bondi Beach!! That was pretty cool. I think I was spoilt as a kid skating at the ice rink in my school holidays. I thought the skates were ridiculously blunt and the ice was so carved up it was snow!  No Zamboni!!! Anyhoo, a couple of drinks and home by midnight.

The human body amazes me. 

I woke up on Saturday to what felt like the hangover I should have had on Friday morning. Mind over matter....hmmm? My Body knew I had to get through a day in the office and a night of ice skating on Friday so I delayed the entire hangover by a day. 

It's like when you've been really busy and when you finally get a break, you get sick. On set I CANNOT get sick. I was surrounded by flu and cold germs and even a stomach bug, working in the outdoors in all conditions - day, night, sun, rain, wind. Miraculously, I escaped unharmed. Now, I'm not going to get too cocky here coz I still have another 4 weeks shoot left.

Is it just me or does this happen to everyone?