"The Untitled Boxing Project"...or maybe not

The past week has been packed with filming, editing, and typing up paperwork for "The Untitled Boxing Project." Yes that is correct, we are currently calling it "The Untitled Boxing Project," but that is only due to not coming up with a good title yet. It has been quite the adventure so far. Tomorrow, or rather today, we will head into our last day of filming.
Boy will be I be excited when tomorrow is over. Don't get me wrong, I love working on this movie, but I just plain don't like being on set. I would much rather be locked in a room, all by myself, with just my computer and some good music, tearing the footage apart peice by peice and reassembling it. Filming wears me out and gives me way too little time away from people. I hate that feeling. I'm quite sure exactly when the feeling of hating people came out. Somewhere between the start of my freshman year and the end of my sophmore year. Along those same lines, I'm not quite sure what brought it about. Maybe it was living with all those girls for 3 semesters, maybe it was all the promises that were broken while living on campus, maybe it was the "higher up's" in student development, maybe it was my mom's death, maybe I just realized who I am, maybe I am trying to hide who I am, maybe it was Dad's divorce, maybe it was my brother disowning me; there are so many things that could have caused it, and yet there is not a single thing that I can pinpoint. It drives me nuts sometimes. I wish I could go back to loving people, but I don't think I remember how.
Ok, back on subject. Filming is going well, from what I can tell. We have some pretty amazing and talented actors. They have been real troopers and God has truly blessed us with their talent. I mean it's everyday that you can get Antonio Banderas' stunt double to act in student film.
This one is going to be a challenge to edit, well sort of. There will be some easy spots, and some extremely challenging spots, with several scenes inbetween. At this point I think the most challenging scence will be our first fight sequence. Mainly due to the fact that it is a straight cut, with not cut to shots like the other boxing sequence is. I will have to be very precise in how I cut it together. Not that it can't be done, but it will definately take a lot of time and patience. Both things I can handle when I am blocked off from people and left alone with my computer. Although, I'm not sure how often I will be able to do that on this project, since it is a group project rather than an individual one. Thankfully I will be editing everything using my laptop, so if need be I can runaway and hide from the director and producers (as I don't think the other crew members will really need much from me during the editing process, well outside of the sound editor). I'm am really excited to get all of the footage into the edit bay so I can capture it all and get to work.
I will be working over Thanksgiving, but hopefully won't be too stressed out with all the work that needs to be done. At this point it is looking like we will have 3 hours worth of raw footage, which will need to be cut down to 8 minutes or less. I know I can do it, but I just hope that it is in a way that pleases everyone with the final outcome.
I am really looking forward to Thanksgiving break though, despite having to edit most of the time. I am definately going to be taking some time out for some relaxation. There will be quite a bit of travel time, but I think it will be well worth it. On Thanksgiving day I will be in Fresno at Nicki's and then from there I will be heading up to Escalon to spend a few days with my cousins Kole and Philip. I am very excited for this leg of the journey because we are going to be going snowboarding. My Aunt Karen has wanted me to teach them some of my snowboard knowledge for a while now and I am excited that I finally will get the chance to do just that. Not only will I get to teach them some of my know-how, but I will also be able to enjoy a much needed day at the slopes. It will definately be nice to see snow again. I miss it so much.
It is hard to believe that it is already snowing at home. It makes me want to go home, just to see the snow. I wasn't really missing home at all until I heard that the snow had already begun to fall. I will be very ecstatic when I get off that plane on Christmas day to see snow on the ground. Although it will be a few days before I can hit the slopes and begin teaching again, I will just be excited to see snow covered ground. Maybe I will be able to visit mom's site when I get home, since I haven't done that yet. I just haven't been able to bring myself to do it. When people ask me if I have seen the stone yet, I just avoid the question. I don't know what to say. I mean I know what it is suppose to look like, I helped design it, but I have never actually gone to the cemetery since it has been delivered. It's hard to avoid the question sometimes, especially when Uncle Lee asks me. I want to tell him that it looks good, but I honestly can't say that yet. I'm sure it does though, because Uncle Lee wouldn't have let it get put in if it didn't. After all, he did spend months going back and forth with the tombstone people before it was engraved to make sure that it was going to look exactly perfect before he placed the final order for it. I suppose that is the good thing about having a Great-Uncle as a mortician.
There is so much I could still say, but I think I need to end this now before more tears begin to well up in my eyes.