Farewell to Wayne

Wayne headed back to Portland today. He rivals Rob in his ability to defer to others, so when I told him I could take him to the Blue Lagoon today, he said, “Oh, that’s okay. I don’t really want to go.”

I couldn’t shake him from this. So, Rob ran him out to the airport and I sat around set waiting.

Today was one of the slow days. I was used in one shot. That was a fun one actually. Bessie had to go through set carrying a number of props. Normally we’d raise the set but because of the other scenes they had to shoot at that location it would have taken too much time. So Julie and I rolled through set on the family-sized puppet dolly. It’s a big flat cart that’s pulled with ropes. We just lie on it and get pulled around. Remember when you were a kid and someone pulled you in a wagon? It’s about as close to that as you can get and earn a paycheck.

This was before Wayne left. After he left, I studied my Icelandic lesson. The thing I couldn’t get him to believe was that we only get to go to the Blue Lagoon when we have company. And we like going. I was sad that I didn’t get to go today.

Let this be a lesson to the rest of my visitors.

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5 thoughts on “Farewell to Wayne”

  1. Oh Dear, I too spent my last day there in the studio and passed on the blue lagoon! If only I had known this would become a trend, I most certainly have acted differently. Oh kindly future visitors, please help the healing begin… go to the blue lagoon!

  2. Do you only go to the Blue Lagoon when you have visitors because it is too extravagant to spend the money on yourself or is it like Rock City here where we get in free if we bring a paying adult?
    If fuel prices here are any indication of fuel costs there, then just driving out there would be extravagant even if admission were free.

  3. Mary Robinette Kowal

    I think it’s mostly that it’s out of the way, and more expensive than going to a pool, so it’s a treat.

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