Archive for October, 2009
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25
Oct
2009
Ramble ramble.
Alex Gómez and I are making Wee One her Hallowe’en costume. Yes, it’s a bit late. Bad parents! At least we have a week? Anyway, she’s going to be Harley Quinn, so I’m getting yarn today to (hopefully) make her hat, collar, mask, and shoes.
“Scripted” has become such a pain in the rear without an editor who knows more than us. It’s an excellent learning experience, let me tell you! We are definitely going to approach projects very differently from now on. Speaking of which, there are several scripts an concepts in the works. Just need to make them more solid and, you know, financed. It would be nice to shoot something with a camera meant for filmmaking and a boom mic, let me tell you!
24
Oct
2009
Help out the Virginia Production Alliance!
Get a free, no obligation, trial to NetFlix and the VPA gets $10 each new trial.
How it works:
1. BEFORE the end of November click on the Netflix link that is located here: http://www.mrrobot.com/links.html
2. Sign up for the free trial and enjoy some movies. (or not).
3. E-mail us to let us know when you signed up: robotsales@mrrobot.com
4. We’ll send the Virginia Production Alliance $10
NOTE: This ONLY works if you are a new Netflix customer who hasn’t had a free trial before. (i.e. if your e-mail address is on file with Netflix, the account will NOT be considered new).
Anyone can sign up using this link, not just VPA members, so you are free to share the link. VPA still gets $10 for each one.
Netflix has not placed a limit on the number of people that can sign up on the link so if you were ever thinking of checking it out, now would be a good time.
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21
Oct
2009
I should be thankful
I tell people when they express sympathy to me for having Coeliac that there are worse things to have. And there are. After all, we have a “fix” of kinds. Don’t eat gluten and you won’t get sick. Pretty simple.
But it sucks. Not because it’s hard, though it is, but because so much of our socialization in this country has to do with food. Because my family is Southern and it’s easier to lie to my great-grandmother and say we’ve eaten already when she offers food I can’t have. It’s rude and I hate it but I’ve tried explaining it and it’s just easier to lie. She doesn’t get it. No one gets it. No matter how many times I explain, they don’t really see me as being healthier and they don’t understand that I HAVE A DISEASE DAMNIT AND IT SUCKS. Only my mom has really noticed a difference, from when I was dying and crazy to now and she is thisclose to joining me in my misery.
It’s isolating. I’m always on the outside, even when I bring my own food. No one really wants to try what I can eat, too. They’ll just make their own to eat while I have mine. It’s not bad, I promise! Gluten-free stuff can be amazing, as evidenced by the green bean casserole my husband made for Thanksgiving that my mother deemed the best she’d ever had. But no one wants to try it.
It makes me wonder if maybe I’d be better off with another disease. One with a less easy “fix.” Because then maybe people would realise that it is a disease. Maybe then it would be something they could understand. Maybe then people wouldn’t be so resistant to getting tested and dealing with it. Maybe I wouldn’t feel so alone in a room full of my own family.