wheee... thud

I am about to crash uncontrollably.

This is okay, because the editing of the symposium video is finally done, so I can crash in peace.

It's even more fortunate, because I'm getting into the audio hallucination phase of sleep deprivation, and while they're normally kind of fun, they aren't very conductive to editing video.

And I just got a phone call telling me that I'm officially being offered the two year 50% FTE position for which I interviewed on Friday. Yay reliable funding. And double yay that interview went better than I had thought.

I also just found out that there is a curling club in Vancouver, WA. I need to go down for one of their introductory sessions. Next one is two days after Christmas... so probably not that one.

Okay, sleep now.

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Hrm, now that I'm no longer editing footage of people with incomprehensible accents talking about the roll of glycosynapses in cell adhesion and signal transduction, I'm suddenly not finding myself slipping into a coma quite so quickly. Funny, that.

I certainly wouldn't have thought it possible, but it looks like all my crazy video dabbling actually helped me land the position. (There is the possibility of producing a few tens of 2ish minute videos demonstrating patient/doctor interactions.) This on the same day that I finished editing a 4 hour symposium video, also for the UW. Who'd have thought I'd actually end up doing professional video work?

Premiere is acting horribly unstable today. Exporting the final product with the title bar overlays is going to take hours, and it just isn't going to stay up that long. This morning I spent a very (subjectively) long time thinking it had irrevocably eaten over 10 hours of work. Turns the corruption was just centered around a specific image, so some binary searching and I was able to recover. But I didn't really need that.

So, um, yay spam. Yummy, sleep-dep induced spam.

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In search of reduced-mental-capacity entertainment, waiting for the rest of my brain to shut off, I just watched all the action sequences in Equilibrium. Which doesn't actually detract too much from the rest of the movie, but hey, really cool action sequences. The gun katas rock my sad little world. And it reminded me of a post I wanted to make last week after watching Underworld:

Dear Hollywood,

You know that thing where someone gets cut in half with a sword or a laser beam or whatever, and they turn around with an odd expression just in time to have half their face fall off? Yeah, well, it's totally passe now. Please stop doing it.

Love, Fish

P.S. Thank you for at least including obvious bone/brain structure in Underworld. It's particularly silly when the inside of people is undifferentiated strawberry jam.