whew.. i am finally freaking done with that video. well really i finished like 6 hours ago.. but i was doing stuff until now. and really i shouldn't be looking at a computer because my eyes are pretty shot, from staring at the screen editing .. but i am addicted to my blog, so here goes.

i think my final finished product was.. okay. pretty good that i had less that 24 hours to do the actual editing. i would say it ranks #3 or #4 out of the 5 projects i've done lately though. it's also hard when you have absolutely no control over the footage, but i guess that's what "real editors" do. :P or so i've been told. i hope they liked it, i hope my sister liked it... i was kind of nervous because she didn't get a chance to see the final product. she saw like 75% of it and then i tacked on the end part. oh well, it's all over now, presumably they've watched it and hopefully liked it. my sister swinged it so i got a little compensation for it... that is nice :)

thursday i worked at the gap and helped this customer who said she was clueless for like 2.5 hours, helping her pick out the right clothes, and then trying to find ones in her size since we didn't have them in our store. i sat at the register for an hour with just her and everyone thought it was a big deal that i was still so pleasant with her. but i dunno, i guess that's just the way i was trained, or also how i am usually, but moreso if i'm getting paid to do it. like helping the customers have a really good "experience" in our store. i think too often, people just don't care, and it does have that ripple effect. i heard bad stories about other people from the gap who sucked, and have a few stories of my own. a few times i'm sure people have thought that about me, but i try not to make it a habit. it's weird there is something satisfying about finding that pair of pants that the customer really wants. i know, i know.. i'm a dork. but i also think that it transcends into other factors/aspects of people's life. a lot of times people will brush people off for small reasons, or just because of other factors, maybe some they don't even know the whole truth about.. or people don't really try hard enough to stay connected, or make an effort. it has a ripple effect, but i guess if you didn't care in the first place, you never really will.

phew.. that was a tangent. friday i made my 90's flashback cd for my sister's video, drove up to LA and started to work on the video. throughout the night i armed myself with a supersized starbucks, mountain dew, vitamin water and bought some shrimp rolls for dinner. i took a "nap" at 2am, because i was pretty useless at that point, and was supposed to wake up in anywhere from 30 minutes to 2 hours, but slept until 8:30am. oops. it seemed okay, but then i went with my sister to the "cams get together & tour" which i thought would be a bigger deal, or cooler than it was, but really wasted a few hours time that i could have been editing. but i think seeing some of the 94 people made me want to do a better job for them to enjoy it, instead of just ending it as quickly as possible. so yay for that i guess. had a quick lunch at home and browsed through my pictures that i ordered from imagestation online. they turned out really good, better than costco's i think :) and s&h was only $2.. so not too bad. maybe that will be my option next time. drove back up to la to finish the video, finished 1 hr later than i was supposed to, drove down to long beach to drop it off (i was way late, but it was okay because they were still mingling). drove home to shower because i was a pile of filth and gross from the semi-all nighter. then drove up to beverly hills to see one of ryan's favorite bands - relax to paris. they were pretty good, i was too tired and hungry to properly enjoy them, maybe in the future. i saw an old high school friend, heather, at the concert. her roomie when to high school with some of the guys in the band, so i guess they go to all the shows. interesting.. what a small world.

so yea.. in the past 36 hours it was torrance->LA->torrance->carson->torrance->LA->long beach->torrance->beverly hills->LA->torrance.

man that is a lot of driving.