Inland, Dreaming of Waves

Spring forward into health

I’m always glad when daylight savings time returns. I much prefer days light until after 7 pm. It’s at this time of year that my spirits really begin to lift, and I think, “Summer is just around the corner!”

I also have reason to rejoice because my sister is at home convalescing. I’ve spoken to her twice—once in the hospital and once at home. When I talked to her in the hospital, it nearly broke my heart because she sounded so feeble. When she called me from home on Tuesday, she sounded almost normal.

She’s taking a month off from work and will have to do some cardiac rehab. I asked her what she was going to do with all that time, and she mentioned some of those projects we’ve all got on the back burner, like reorganizing photographs, and said she wanted to spend a lot of time enjoying spring.

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Last night Todd and I went to a screening of Group 101 short films. Group 101 comprises directors who commit to making one short film a month for 6 months. Every month they choose a new theme: this month it was teeth. I made my acting debut in one of the films, “Seven Cups of Joe.” Watching myself onscreen was a lot less scary than I imagined. The director and his wife gave me a lot of compliments, which was nice. Compared to the actor who was playing my boyfriend, who performs in an improv group every week, my facial expressions were fairly static, and I didn’t really know how to interact with the camera. I thought I did OK for never having acted before (unless you count playing the hospital visitor in Good Morning, Miss Dove in high school).

I had a great time doing the scenes, though. It was fun to work with Troy because he’s so good at pulling lines out of thin air, and I learned a little bit about how you want to position people for the camera.

posted by Price of Silence @ 9:00 AM