Going down a new path

So the past week has been somewhat tough. Things were at an all-time high on Monday. I managed to score producing another film project, but then yesterday, in true film post-grad fashion, I got sent to the dumps again. It looks like we might have to postpone our principal project, which means I can't do the other project and also makes me unemployed for 4 months between January and April to boot. On top of that, my student doc got rejected from yet another festival and my friends were away somewhere so they couldn't pick up the phone. It all feels so freaking fantastic right now...the prospect of going back to getting rejected by a zillion places because it's the middle of a freaking recession. Yeah. I got rejected from 47 unpaid internships back in June. Not even jobs, but internships. Unpaid ones. Most of them just didn't even bother to write back. After 3 weeks, I figured it was a lost cause. So now I have to go back to surfing the usual job sites hoping that something is going to turn up, and then that that something won't reject me. Welcome to post-grad life in an economic recession I guess...
On the brighter side, M is coming to visit today and staying for a week! I convinced her about a month back that she should use her airline miles to drop by Quito and visit after her summer internship. I'm glad she listened to me! We're going off to the beach for a few days, and Otavalo's artisan market, and the Equator and the city center and rafting in the cloud forest. All very cool places! Also, I might go to Montreal in a week. We're thinking about submitting our project for the production exchange program and if we get in, I'm using my own airline miles to go to Montreal to sell our project to investors. I think we have a good chance of getting it. But that remains to be decided. Also, after Montreal I thought it would be great to drop by NYC and visit some college chums that currently live in the area like M, N, and J. I think it would be very nice to see them again for a bit! Also, a few of my local college friends came over for dinner and wine on Monday and we had a lot of laughs and reminiscing about college, which was fun too!
Well. I guess life is once again leading me down a different path once again. I suppose I should just go with the flow, right? Things have a way of turning out for the best.

Categories: film, J, job, M, N, unemployment