Whatever can go wrong...

Yeah, you know that saying. I've been pretty much preparing myself from the beginning for a lot of dumb little things to take place throughout the completion of this project, and I'm trying my best to be as prepared as I possibly can for whatever might happen. When I opened my Macbook Pro up earlier this week and it refused to come out of sleep mode, I knew this was just the first in probably a series of frustrating events. Thankfully, since I'm getting college credit for this whole thing, I was bumped into full-time territory and will therefore be getting more loan money. With said extra loan money I went ahead and purchased a shiny new Frost White Toshiba netbook. This thing is totally beautiful and I wish I'd gotten one a long time ago. I've already Linux'd it up with Ubuntu, which is something I've been wanting to play around with for a while, so aside from minor keyboard annoyances, the wait time for my MBP getting repaired will be a heck of a lot less painful. I'm thinking I should have it back by the end of next week.

It's been a while, so certainly I must have a few updates. First of all, the project has been unanimously approved by all parties and is now completely official. Before it was just "assumed" it would be approved, but we all know things are better when official. Which they are now. Awesome.

I have finally met face to face with Adele, the owner of the foundation, and her husband and children. They all seem like wonderful people, and it's a big relief to have finally met them. I felt bad that it took so long to happen, but now that it has everything seems to be falling into place.

At the meeting with Adele I was given the footage of her son's life/funeral on Hi-8 tape, which I thought wouldn't be too big of a problem since I have my own camera... Which I then obviously could not find the charger to, rendering my camera useless. Thankfully, Dr. Carlin had one he was willing to let me borrow, so I've got that covered. I also picked up the camera I would be using to film the project with, as well as a clip-on LAV mic, so I've got pretty much all the technology I need to get this show on the road. Once my laptop is out of the shop.

It seemed like I had more to mention, but I guess this is good enough for an update. The first filming date is solidified for February 6th, in which I will be travelling to Chambersburg to film the grave site, as well as the interview with Adele at her house. I should be able to take care of it all in one day. Fingers crossed.