State of the Person

I'm at that spot where the production recovery daze wears off and I try to figure out where I stand.

Work
I am working, semi-guaranteed, three of the next four weekends. I need more work, but this is fine for right now, and I feel like I'll be able to get work no problem. I'm more qualified and more confident than I was four months ago.

Social
I need to catch up with everybody. Production, by definition, shuts down this part of my life.

Career
Now that I know I can grip and can make an educated guess I'll be decent at it within a few months, I'm starting to feel like I am capable of doing many other jobs in the film business. This is significant because the last job I was in charge of was not 100% satisfactory for the client and it scared me off being anything more important for a PA for a long time.

Now I am thinking about other projects I can do.

-I want to adapt this porn I wrote (long story) so it is a comedy starring puppets.

-I am starring in next month's First Sundays Film Festival "Wanna Be a Star" contest film.

-This post could be a short film (the '80s part).

-I want to get in on an indie feature film as an actor, electric, associate producer, key PA, anything. I want to be part of a project like that from start to finish again.

Also, I'm reading a textbook on how to be a production manager or coordinator, which will lay out the basics the production-side stuff I could do.

Residency
I asked Full Stealth (originally from Vermont) how long it takes to be a New Yorker. He said "six years, but you can subtract a year for every mugging."

Well, I've been here two years, but I am a New Yorker.

-I'm planning to stay here forever.

-When I was from Texas, everyone thought I was from New York anyway.

-I have been to many places in this city, and I haven't generally travelled there just to be there - I've had legitimate (like work and friends) reasons to be there.

-I have many memories in this city.

-I live in Brooklyn, not Manhattan. 'Cuz Manhattan is for tools.