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Saturday afternoon I went to the little premiere of the film I worked on last summer...now called "Of Yesterday And Tomorrow" (and formerly known to some of you as "Long Time Gone"). I had my uncle drop me off (driving our car with my mom & aunt along) outside the Central Cinema in Seattle. There were lots of people there, some I knew and some I didn't. We ended up waiting long past the scheduled start time because there were technical difficulties. They ended up playing the film through the editor's laptop onto the big screen, but in the end it worked fairly well.

Anyway, we did a lot of standing, first outside the theater and then a bit inside. Then I spotted some friends (crew members) from the film and went to talk to them. It helped pass the time, sharing stories about vacations and other work projects. I talked a lot with Jordan, who was our assistant cameraman. He's just a bundle of energy, this guy! He can totally talk your ear off! LOL So we hung out and once we got inside we decided to sit together, so it was nice to be with someone during the film.

Once inside and seated we had to wait again. This is a dinner theater and one waitress was going around taking people's orders (she never did get to our row, btw, but it was cool 'cause I didn't want anything anyway). So that took another half hour! The show was supposed to start at 3:00, but it didn't actually start until a little after 4.

The film though, looked great! It's so awesome to see something you helped create come together as a whole piece. The director/writer/producer, M. Korolenko, warned us ahead of time that it wasn't completely finished, but just about everything was done. Outside of one missing sound effect and a few awkward music cues, it looked great to me. It all worked, the story, the acting, all of it. And me being me, I was checking my own work as well, trying to see if I could find any continuity errors. I'm happy to say I didn't find any and if I couldn't spot them, I'm sure nobody else did either.

I found myself reminiscing as the film played. I could remember clearly certain days and moments, mostly revolving around how hot it was shooting certain scenes because we were either out in the hot summer sun, or inside a completely closed up house. But the audience laughed at the right times and you could feel the emotional moments hit them too. After the film, there was a brief Q & A with the director and the reactions were all positive. It made all of us who worked on the film feel very good!

Everyone slowly trickled out of the building, saying goodbye and I called for my relatives to come pick me up. Then I met with an old friend while I waited.

( The guy I didn't expect to see at all yesterday.... )

Some of you might recall me talking about MG in the past. He's a guy I went to college with during my last couple of years. We became fast friends, hung out together a lot, and I was hoping....would become more than friends. Then after our final school project together, working on a documentary film crew in the summer of 2007, he promptly ceased all contact with me. I tried emailing, I tried calling....nothing. Then in December of 2007, I got the shocking news from our mutual college instructor and friend that MG was in love with someone. I was devastated. Then in July of 2008, I learned from the same instructor, that MG seemed to have cut off everyone in his life and was living in California with his new girlfriend. A few months later, I learn he wasn't in CA, but is still here in WA. *sigh*

Anyway, somehow I knew. I KNEW, I was going to hear from MG again. And sure enough, I checked my one email last night and there was a message from him....via his Facebook account. He's started one and wants me to join in so he can add me as a friend on Facebook. At first my anger flaired. How dare he expect me to respond to him at all after what he did to me? There was no way I was going to join Facebook to friend him. Then I got to thinking...maybe things have changed. I certainly still have feelings for him. He was a great friend at a time when I truly needed one. He helped me so much when my dad passed away. He was that shoulder to cry on and a person who listened. We shared so much of our lives and our creative frustrations. I'm not ready to throw all that away. Sure, I'm still pissed at him for cutting me off the way he did, but if he really wants to renew our relationship I don't think I should be against it. Maybe his other relationship fizzled out? When I met him he was unattached. In fact, I never even heard him talk about past girlfriends at all. Of course, he could still be with her, but I'm choosing to believe (& hope) that if he's contacting me, that maybe there's still hope of rebuilding the relationship we had. After all, he's now the one reaching out to me. Maybe I shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth?

I've considered getting a Facebook account anyway (along with a MySpace). It would be a good way to keep in contact with people in the Puget Sound area in the filmmaking business. I've picked up that it's the new way of networking. Nobody exchanges emails anymore, it's all Facebook and MySpace. So I'm seriously considering going for it and joining Facebook so I can get in contact with him again. I really have nothing to lose and everything to gain if I do.