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I’m 45 minutes in editing Romeo & Juliet. Still 1h15min to go.

Part I is finished. Only as much as is done to go.

St. Petersburg was great! I have two rolls of film developed, but I have yet got to scan the images I want to use. But first I have to mention a funny thing. You see, in Finland there a no stray dogs. I think that the stray dogs that exist get picked up by the Animal Protection organization, I can’t remember the official name. However, there are a lot of stray dogs in St. Petersburg. I was photographing just about everything just outside the check-in point for the ship, trying to get the film shot completely. I didn’t notice, but a stray dog had come up really close to me, and when I took the camera away from my eyes, I seriously got a heart attack when I noticed the dog about a meter away from me. Well, as you know, stray dogs are cute and everything, but can be infested with just about everything from diseases to parasites. So, I started to back up from the dog, since I have about the worst case of phobia for bacteria and unhygienic things. The dog, on the other hand, started following me. Mum was laughing while I tried to get away from the dog, because the dog probably only smelled our dog in my clothes. Well, I rushed inside the building for check-in, and the poor dog wanted to follow me. I think the only thing stopping it was fear of being trampled by the people going inside, and of being beaten by guards. I was honestly terrified, though I felt bad for the dog. I got a bad conscience for wanting to get away from the dog, especially as it didn’t try to hurt me. Well, that’s that, but man how ironic that things like this always happen to me! Boring story, I know, but bare with me.

Now I’m back at school, and I’m already bored with capturing the million tapes I have from the play. I know the lines by heart, and honestly, that is not a good thing! I’m starting to get ideas here. Not telling what ideas though, that’s private! ha. Anyway, I haven’t even started editing yet, since I haven’t got everything on the computer yet. And I fear that the editing is going to take a lot more time than I hope. Syncing the sound from three different shows is going to be hell! And now I’m missing creative writing because I’m writing this and recording the clips onto the computer. Simultaneously.

On top of all that I can’t leave! I have to finish this tape, yet I’m so hungry I could eat a horse (metaphor people!). I need nutrition! Food! All I have is chocolate, Fazer Geisha on top of that (best chocolate-nougat there is!), and I can tell you, that is no good when you’re starving. Anyway, I’ll try to have this done by 4PM, then go to the apartment, do my workout session, and then boil my pasta, which is all I have anyway. And ketchup and some Parmesan and perhaps a bit of grated emmental. Man, even that sounds so delicious at this point! Must not think about food. Must not think about food. Must not. Must not. Must not…

Will post pictures from St. Petersburg soon. Must get away from editing first, though. And find some food…

I’m going to Russia on Saturday. Well, actually, the cruise ship leaves Saturday, and we’ll be in St. Petersburg on Sunday. Me and mum, that is. Mum got a pretty good offer at work, so we decided to go! I’m so excited. I mean, I haven’t been anywhere, since…last year. Well, I know, that’s really not much, but seeing all my friends going here and there I’ve built up an incredibly strong travel-fever, really. I need to go!

Today I’m supposed to start editing the video material I shot last week. I have a total of 16 MiniDV tapes, varying between 30 and 80 minutes. Let’s put it this way, I shot three days, each day 2 hours. Two of those days I shot with three cameras, the last day I only shot with two cameras (one tape each). So, Tuesday I got 8 tapes, Wednesday 6 tapes (plus a bit on two of the tapes from Tuesday), and Thursday 2 tapes. I’ve gone through most of the material I have, NOT in real time, dude, that’s like fifty hours. But now, I managed somehow to brake the VCR. One of the tapes just got stuck inside and wouldn’t come out. The VCR just refused to do anything. So it’s getting repaired for I don’t know how long. Now I’m stuck with my teachers handheld MiniDV, which refuses to record anything onto the computer I’m editing the thing on. I don’t know, I don’t think it can handle the constant forward/backward searching that Adobe Premier likes to do when finding the right in and out point.

Yes, unfortunately I don’t have the pleasure of working with Avid. Adobe Premiere it is, and that’s what I’ll probably will have to live with forever. We were pretty lucky at our previous school to get to work with Avid. Lucky, INDEED! That’s the equipment professional editors use, even for film-editing. So, no, I can’t have that at the moment.

So let’s hope I get the original VCR back soon, because I only have 5 weeks left to edit the whole thing. The theater group who did it will want to see it, the director especially. And this is supposed to be my final project, the project that’ll show I’ve actually done something this year.

Anyway, Geamy, I changed the joined page to look a bit different, different colours and everything. I’m truly sorry that I didn’t realize before that it looked so similar to your’s! I feel really bad, and I hope you won’t hate me forever!

I’m pretty much mad. I can’t get my content to work the way I want. I want each of the blog-separate pages to have the same style and layout as my blog. You know, the way I’ve always had things. But with these themes, I can’t have both that, and functional comment/single entries pages. I can’t have any if-statements at all that are separate from the blog-statements. They simply mess everything up. So now, my info and etc page won’t work. Because I want them to look like this page does. And they don’t!!!

Everything would be alright, if the theme files that aren’t WordPress specific files (such as index.php and header.php) would recognize the WordPress specific functions. Like get_header() and get_footer(), and such. I can’t have any of those files included in my other theme-files. For example, I’ve put my val.php page in the theme files. Of course WordPress won’t recognize it. But I want it to act as if that page belongs there with the other theme files.

ARGH! Well, at least my joined page works. Why? Because I changed its layout to be different from everything else.

Other than that? Peachy keen! I have another fanlisting on upcoming. More info soon. *evil grin*

This is absolutely a marvelous idea. Definitely a stealing worthy idea! Well, it took me a lot of headache to get it to work and figure out how to do, but I did it. Now I will overly abuse this whole idea.

Oh, I simply love this. Miniposting. Yay.

I got approved for the fanlisting for the new Kent album Du & Jag Döden. So, this weekend I finished it.

fan.ashke.nu/kent

Isn’t this great? Well, no one will probably join for a long time, since there’s only a very marginal fan base (since Kent does it all in Swedish. ahem.) and since it’s a fairly new album. Fairly. So Geamy, you should ask your mum to join!

This now means that I have a total of 10 fanlistings and over 3000 members (me included in all ten fanlistings, of course), a cumulative number of over 3 years. I have, of course, the Fight Club fanlisting and the All characters of the Vampire Chronicles fanlisting to thank for this amazing number, with 1200+ and 900+ members, respectively. But only the Todd Gaines and the Lord of the Rings game series fanlistings are really quiet with under 50 members each. Even Lord of the Flies is fast approaching 100 members, as well as Ludo Bagman.

Amazing, really.