I was on set all day today being the live hands for one of the characters. It was wonderful and exhausting. Being back at work feels great, but it means lots of poses that would make a yoga master wince. Fortunately I only seem to be facing standard fatigue and show no signs of trouble […]
While looking for the results of the Icelandic team in the Winter Olympics, I stumbled across this article called Learning a lesson about Iceland which is fairly amusing. Oh, by the way, it’s been warmer here than it was in Chattanooga when we left.
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Sort of…really, today was the first day the puppets were on the call sheet, but we were the last shot scheduled. As you might guess, we did not get to that shot. They wrapped right before we came up. Julie had her headset on and was on deck; we were that close. So we’ll be
This is the house that we live in. The windows on the ground floor are ours; that’s our kitchen in the corner, next to it is the bedroom and then the living room is that section that bumps out. The other half of the ground floor belongs to someone else. I think each floor has
What, I say, what was up with the thousand brides wandering around at the end of the Olympic Ceremony. The problem with not having commentary is that I’ve got no idea what they thought that would represent, or what the seemingly random burlesque/clown/royal court was about. Okay…and now there’s someone dancing in what gives every
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“Mary Robinette Kowal’s Portrait of Ari is a bittersweet tale of a couple, one of whom is perhaps not quite human, and how that fact alters their happy relationship.” —Rich Horton, Locus
Last night we got a note in our mail slot, in Icelandic, which invited us to the collective housemeeting. After a bit of conversation, we decided to go knowing we wouldn’t understand anything, but figuring it was a good idea to be neighborly. The couple we are renting from also came. They won’t leave the
We all needed to get physicals to qualify for medical care in Iceland, so the studio took us to a clinic today. My exam went like this. Me: “Hi, I’m afraid I’m sick.” Dr. “Ah. What’s the trouble?” Me: “Well, I saw a doctor yesterday who said it was a viral respiratory infection.” Dr. “I
I went to the doctor today and he said that my lungs sound clear and that it’s probably a viral infection and I’ll just have to wait it out. If I develop a fever I should come back. I’m wondering why the fever I had when this started doesn’t count.
If you are curious about the going’s on of the dog we adopted and then abandoned with my parents upon our departure for Iceland, my father has started Buster’s Blog.
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This article from the covers the production of Arabian Nights for which I did the set design.
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I’m tired of it already. I had a fit today that sounded like I had consumption. Okay, not really, but it felt like someone ought to be concerned that I might have consumption. Basically, my sore throat has become a nasty chest cold which is aggravating my respirtory infection induced asthma, which is further aggravated
So far we’ve found the German, Danish and Italian coverage of the Olympics. The thing that they have in common is that they don’t comment during the events, only before and after each competitor goes. We’re watching the Italian channel because they sound sexier. The other thing, and this is really cool, is that they
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My house-husband is making dinner in the kitchen while I sip tea and write. He’s making peppers stuffed with massaman curried rice.
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Today I went in around eleven o’clock to consult with Rosa and Sigga, our puppet wranglers, and Gummi Thor about new gloves for our puppets. Thor has come up with this new system so we can have wrist-entry for the live hand puppets instead of just elbow entry. It looks good, although there’s some questions