Ribbit

Three reasons I love staying the proverbial "finished room above the garage" (or FROG as I'm told the cool kids say) at my aunt and uncle's:

- It's free and my family is so fun.

- Coming home every night to a hot meal is amazing.

- Finally, the most awesome part...I get to sleep on a WATERBED! !


I really just wanted to brag about that last part.

I'm a Big Kid Now!

And they say a Drama major will get you nowhere...

I started work today! After multiple delays on the project, it is up and running, and I'm now officially a member of the film industry (or at least that's what I'm saying). The shoot's pretty short, but a few weeks in Wilmington with free room and board and the chance to say "I'm the assistant costumer on a film" is as worthy payoff for 6 day weeks of 10-12 hour days. Mom told me to take a "first day of work" picture - she always made me take them for school, even through being homeschooled and college!

The film, In The Absence of Good Men, is about Jesse and Frank James, along with some of their crew, and is set in 1864. The cast has only 3 females - quite the change from Carolina! I don't think I can tell who is in it right now, and there's certainly no one of, say, Sean Connery caliber, but there is one person who'll make you say "Haha, that's cool!" That's what I said, at least.

Today we ran around to a few stores and over to Screen Gems studios, did some fittings, realized we need a ton more stuff. Right now the casting office is sharing a space with us, so it was cool to get a feel for how they work, too. Generally, what we're doing isn't particularly hard or different than previous work, but since it's my first film, I'm sure I'm gonna do 1,000 idiot things. For example, I totally put the buggy in one of those buggy return things at Walmart with the designer's crucial notebook of info on everything still in it, then plopped myself in the car where she was waiting. An hour or so later, I thought I lost my pocketbook at the place we stopped for lunch (a really good, Pepper's-esque spot called Elizabeth's or something like that). Brilliant, Tiffany, way to show you've got it together. Oh well, set the bar low, right? Then you can delight her with minimal competence later.

Well, I suppose I am undeniably an adult today. I filled out W-9 forms, signed contracts, drank coffee (ok, sorta...), even got an email on my non student email from an actor calling me "Miss" and by my last name. Yep, I'm all grown up on the outside. But just between you and me - my underwear was still by Sesame Street. ; )

God Is Awesome

Talk about stating the obvious, huh? Still, it deserves to be said, especially after today. Many thanks to all of you who have been praying about my uncle's situation with my aunt flipping out and engaging in some, shall we say, shady activities. He went to court toayday over the ridiculous, false restraining order she took out, and we WON!

This victory is huge, because not only did she admit major things in court, the lawyer he had said "It doesn't matter that you're innocent and she's completely not, she played the right card, and you're screwed. You'll never step foot in that house again." Some fight that dude had in him! Determined not to give up, we prayed over the phone book, and found a new lawyer. She turned out to be a Christian, and she was fantastic.

This morning, I prayed and prayed, and sang praise songs, and waited to hear what happened. Then I thought, I need to read some Psalms, just say some of the praises in them out loud. I opened to Psalms, and happened to fall on 27. As I approached the end of the chapter, I got chills. This is what it said:

12 Do not turn me over to the desire of my foes,
for false witnesses rise up against me,
breathing out violence.
13 I am still confident of this:
I will see the goodness of the LORD
in the land of the living.
14 Wait for the LORD;
be strong and take heart
and wait for the LORD

I couldn't have imagined verses more perfect. Verse 12 hits 3 points of the situation: her desire, her lying, and her "breathing out violence" - in this case, lying and saying he was violent to her. Verse 13 brings hope that we'll see his goodness in this life, and verse 14 says to wait - something we had to do, as we had a continuance from the first court date and had to wait 10 more days. As I said before, God is awesome.

Life As A Lemming

Funny how the absence of a computer really hampers the consistency of a blog.

Since my computer bit the big one in December, my online activities dwindled to not much more than the on-campus email check. A summer of Macaroni Grill remedied that situation, however, and I began planning my posting return. Laziness and more appealing options delayed the process, but I was coming back. Then a dilemma arose.

Oh-so recently, two terrific friends created their own blogs. I hold nothing against them for it - I love the chance to piddle around under the guise of deepening my knowledge of a friend. The problem was this: I hate being a follower. Even though I started this before donning the cap and gown, my lack of advertisement combined with months of inactivity means it needs the bulletin...but if I send out a mass email, I risk looking like a copy cat! However, I think my desire to keep in touch with folks, especially the ones I used to communicate with primarily though chats in the Union or late night trips to Cosmic, will supersede my overanalyzation.

Hmm...maybe I can casually slip it in a message about my new email address. Methinks we found a solution!