A look at work
Normally I try to avoid talking about my personal life in my blog and there's a good reason for it. It seems to me that half of the blogs out there are attempts by the writer to garner pity about their current situation. "Poor me, I'm so alone!" "She doesn't understand my being a furry!" "Why did that priest touch me? Why?" I'm making an exception this time because enough of you would like to know what my job is like. Here's the breakdown.

I wake up at 7:00 in the morning via the French CBC and I get my weather report. Since my sleeping patterns are so fucked, I usually stay in bed for an hour or so, hitting the snooze over and over again. This allows me to prolong any dream and helps me acheive a lucid state, from time to time. By 8:00, I'm out of my bed and off to the shower. Once out, I turn on some music, do some writing, gather any material needed for work and have some breakfast. Right before I head off to work, I turn on Animal Crossing to see what's new in my village, look for fossils and make sure that they're mailed before I leave. Occationally, if I have enough time, I wait until Tom Nook's shop is open and sell my fossils that I received via the mail. When I'm done this, I head out the door.

I walk to work for two reasons. The first one is pretty simple, I don't have any other mode of transportation. It's too slippery and cold for a bike. The bus routes are a mess here and I'm afraid that I haven't bothered to learn the routes. Secondly, it's a good way to get exercise. When I lived in Victoria, I walked for at least 2 hours every week day, to school and back, plus any other places that I want to visit along the way. If I have the time, I stop by IGA on the way to work and pick up something to drink. I usually pick up a fruit drink of some sort as I get very thristy at work.

After about 45 minutes of walking, I arrive at Tim's place. Tim usually greets me at the door, but from time to time his wife or his daughter is there and they let me in. If his wife or daughter opens the door, we do a little chit chatting about how my walk was, what the weather is like, et cetra and then I'm off to the office to work.

Each day is different depending on the project that I'm working on. Currently, I'm working on editing a promotional video for an asphalt company. Right now I'm not doing any editing, but rather working on a paper edit. That is to say, I look at my log of all the footage, decide which clips are the best and begin to create an asembly. To facilitate this process, in back of my desk is a large bulletin board with index cards. The index cards are used to illustrate shots that I've culled from watching the raw footage and I arrange them to create an edit. This allows me to look at how my project will look without actually cutting on the computer. In the long run, it should, (in theory) save me some time. If the project was further along, I'd be behind my computer working on an edit.

I'm a person that works best with some sort of noise, so I usually have the television turned onto CNN. CNN is good background noise and, if anything interesting happens, I get to know about it as it happens. If an intersting news bit occurs, I take off my headphones, tell Tim about it and turn the television around so that he can take a look. This usually prompts discussions on current events and we usually add our two cents about any issue that comes up and then we get back to work.

From time to time, Tim will ask me to stop working on my project and ask him to give him a hand with something that he's doing. Since he's going to Vancouver next week to do some pitching to Global, he's working on fine tuning three projects that he's interested in. Right now the main focus is a project on Canada's Defense. Since he doesn't have a writer on board at the moment (that'll come once we're in Development), my job is to help him do research for the project. Last time I worked for him, my job was to reseach the GNP of all the developed countries in the world and find out how much of a percent they spend on their militaries. Tim believes that Canada, compared to the other countries in the world, spends the least on our defense and he believes that it's a problem to our soveirgnty. I do this until I find the information that he's looking for and then it's off to do some more editing.

This will continue on and off during the day. I don't get any breaks like a normal job, but the time spent talking to Tim about our current projects and plans for the future is relaxing enough to consider a break. When my work is done, we call it a day and I get a ride to where ever I need to be. All and all, my work is fun and challenging in different ways every day.