My fish disappeared today. I walked into the office and he just wasn't in the bowl.

RIP: Archie the brave and beautiful Siamese Fighting Betta

I had a LONG day... all in preparation for tomorrow. Nothing but calls, screen actors guild, hotels, locations, equipment rental houses, insurance forms, filming permits... everything and anything you can think of that has to do with film and more. I swear the people at Global Entertainment Insurance and the Mayor's Office of Film & Entertainment are my best friends now. I have their numbers on speed dial. Oh- and don't even mention the hassle I was getting from the Miami-Dade police department... can you imagine it takes $40 an HOUR to hire an off-duty policeman? I told Cindy at the Mayor's Office that I don't care if she calls the permit cops on me... we are NOT about to pay for THAT. No WAY. I'd rather film our whole movie guerilla-style than pay for that crap- the police do nothing but sit in their cars and eat all of MY SET FOOD. Bastards. I dont need them- I didn't haggle a good deal on filming insurance for nothing!

Misc. Note: U-haul is now permanently on my uncool list.

Principal Photography starts its long 13-day run tomorrow. My schedule is pretty killer too: 7am go to U-haul, 7:30am go the CineVideoTech, 9 am go to work at Forti/Layne until 6pm, 6pm go to set for first shoot location, stay on location until 6 am, 6am deliver U-haul to next location, 7am prepare for the next day.

If I didn't love it so much I'd think the film lifestyle was for Crazies. Long days, little pay, great risks, no benefits, luck-of-the-draw pay-offs, unrecognized accomplishments, bigheaded actors, creative blockaids...on second thought maybe it IS, and maybe I'm just one of them!