I love Sundays. I get to see folks I don’t normally see during my week, and I get to go to church 
For those of you who don’t know, I tape the sermons and put them on DVD and on the internet. I’ve been doing it for almost 3 years solid, maybe sitting in a pew 4 times or so since my first day. Either way it went fine, some audio problems at the start but we got them fixed. It’ll be weird to stop taping things on a Sunday but I am looking forward to it. Being in ministry is tough, because on one hand you have a great responsibility to serve God, on the other hand you find yourself wanting to experience ministry and not run it all the time. Sometimes I wish I could just come on a Sunday and have nothing to do, just greet folks and enjoy the sermon. I think I’ll find that enjoyable in LA wherever that is. Showing up with nothing to do but make friends and listen to the message, woo!
After church I went to the Brickyard with Kevin to eat and chat. It’s a great restaurant, one of my first jobs took place there for almost 2 years and almost ruined me spiritually. Being in a kitchen with a bunch of guys very unlike myself makes things difficult, and being a Christian…makes it worse. That job showed me just how bad an influence people can be on you, no matter how strong you are they start to seep into your being. I’m not sure I’ve been around non-Christian people regularly since, so I’m sorta bracing myself for LA. I’m just glad I’m not stupid and blind and know that it’ll be a challenge. I’m pretty sheltered but the fact that I know it is good. Lots of people just figure “ah I’ll be ok” and fail miserably once they leave the nest. I’ll face the same things, but knowing going in that I’ll be facing them. Should be an experience for sure…as will finding a new church, friends, and starting over.
I’m changing a lot of things about myself this past month and the next. I’ve been more outgoing I think then I’ve ever been, met more new people than I ever have, and just been a lot happier overall socially. I’m also changing my appearance as I had mentioned with new clothes, and a new haircut soon. I also need new glasses since mine are bent so maybe I’ll either get new ones or try contacts. Then I’ll look really different. All that plus the beard I now have going and the out of the ordinary social behavior, I’ll be almost a different person before I leave. I’m looking forward to it. I’ve never been happy with what I wear or how I look. I have very few things I like to wear and I’m happy wearing, same with my hair and such. Days when I feel like crap are mostly days where I don’t like what I look like. I got rid of so many old High School shirts and stuff from when I was much bigger than I am now. All that baggy stuff…yuck. Time for changes there, big time.
I went to VOC tonight, which was great again. I met more new people and hung out with friends. We went to Applebees (yes again) and hung out there as well until closing. It was a fun time.
The Life Giver website is going to be just fine I think, I sent a contract into the folks yesterday and will get it on Tuesday. I’m glad God brought along this job, it’ll be nice to have more dough in the bank when I leave. I’ll feel a lot better. I’ll actually have more in my account than I have in years when I leave…which is funny considering (at the moment at least) I’m broke.
Standing Firm is going well too. We will be shooting again either the end of this week or the next, or both. I’m waiting on one more persons schedule before I can make anything positive. Time is ticking and we probably have 5 days of shooting to do. The ADR will be the bigger challenge I suspect because none of us have done it successfully before. I hope things go well. I’ll also be scrambling to get a rough edit of the entire film together to make sure I have ABSOLUTELY everything I need. Not a single shot missing. I won’t have a lot of time to get it if there is something missing and the time to edit will be a little while. I’ll be cutting it close I suspect if there is any problems. We should be good though, God has brought us this far. Pray for nice weather! We can’t afford to have a day blown because of rain or something annoying. We need as much sunlight as possible to shoot. Cloudy days don’t do us any good.
Till next time…
