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Hey VIFL,
I’d like to ask you guys to pray for me from now through probably the next month or so. I have to get surgery for my ill-behaving colon. No medications, even steroids, are doing the trick. The good thing is that I should be disease-free, at least for a while*, after the surgery.
There are two places that are messed up from the disease: one near my ilium and one in my small bowel (I think). Basically, they will cut out those two areas and connect the ends together. It shouldn’t be a big deal, since there is, like, at least 6 extra feet of colon anyway.
What I really need prayer for right now…is the wait. If I had a choice, I’d be under the knife right now to get it over with, but I can’t even get an appointment to talk with the surgeon until October 6th. This kind of sucks, since right now getting up from a chair or taking a walk can be painful. It even hurts for food to digest. Some days are all right and I can get by with just a simple stomach ache, but other days are severely painful. I’m on Vicodin, but that doesn’t even mask the pain a lot of times; and I’m not really enthusiastic about popping addictive painkillers for a month or more.
Crohn’s is very psychologically troubling too, because it will act capriciously and unpredictably. Sometimes it will make you think that it’s completely gone, when in the next hour you’ll cramp up again and be curled up in a corner some place. This may sound kind of strange, but it’s as though there’s something hateful in the center of your body, always trying to inflict upon you a new form of agony.
I’m really hoping that I won’t go through another severe bout of the disease while I’m waiting. That would SUCK.
But once I’m out of recovery, I should be a happy camper. Chips and salsa for me again! 
* Crohn’s is, in many ways, a mysterious disease that doctors don’t really understand. One of its “mysteries” has to do with the surgery. Doctors can cut out the diseased area of the colon, removing the disease COMPLETELY, but for some strange reason, the disease will pop back up around the exact same place that was surgically removed. The good thing is, after it’s removed, I have a clean slate with the disease, which means another chance to live better, eat healthier, and prevent it from coming back again.
Some of you may find this interesting, and some of you may really not…
…but I’m editing a video right now that I’m actually somewhat interested in. It’s a short video about the first wind turbine built on a mountain in North America (It was constructed at the Jiminy Peak Mountain Resort in Massachusetts). I’ve been sorting through 15 or 16 hours of footage to put together a 7 to 10 minute piece that follows the planning and construction of the turbine. The video’s going to premiere at the ribbon-cutting a week from tomorrow (August 15th) in Massachusetts. …which may mean that I should be…working on it…instead of typing about it??
Here’s an article with pictures:
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB118548163218279297.html
I miss the raccoons.
Jon, I’ve asked off work for your wedding. Because I’m awesome.
I’m making a film this summer, before I leave the state. Anybody want to help?
Thursday night, I had possibly the greatest editing experience of my life. I think it’s the greatest scene I have ever rendered in my life.
I’m showing a rough version of the film for the ECC Student Art Exhibit this Friday.
In other news, I have a crush on Rachel Lehenbauer.
The End.
Shouldn’t we determine the order that people add on to the panel thing, to avoid chaos?
Jon–I have all of these poetic things I’d like to say about the VIFL, but I don’t know how to do it!
To Leo and/or Jon,
Please don’t take this offensively, but may I correct the grammar under the “About” page? It’s really not that bad, just a couple little things. Once again, please forgive my English student perfectionist ways…
I’m in! I think it may be case-sensitive or something?
Well, I’d like to go… but I have three more weeks of overnight Wal-Mart work.
That’s right. ONLY THREE MORE WEEKS. HAHA!
Well, I’ve really only been able to edit one to two nights a week, but the rough cut of the film is now at 40 minutes. Kinda surprised me considering I’m only at scene 21 (out of a little over 50). Originally I thought the entire movie would be about 40 minutes long. But I’m finding it’ll be more like an hour and a half to two hours long. And we did all of the principal shooting in about a week (!!!).
I’m challenging myself by trying to edit the film without a temp track–that is, without any music initially beneath it, but to find the rhythm through the visuals alone–and it’s really really challenging to do. In fact, I’m giving up on that and starting to use a temp track.
I’m happy with some of it. I’m unhappy with the rest.
I’ll probably have other short films completed before this one is. Could be over a year. Could be longer.
Um, that’s all I have to say about my life right now. The rest is pretty depressing.
HELLO?? hello hello hellooo…
ECHO! echo echo echooo….
la la dee da..
…Well, I guess our lives are pretty uneventful.
Well, I zoned the liquor today. Yessir. I did. So all our friendly Wal-Mart shoppers can drink themselves into Hell over the Holidays. And you know who told me to zone the liquor? That’s right: none other than Dave Shell. That sinner!
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