this time last year

I'm signed up for a service called Photojojo's Time Capsule, twice a month it goes back into my flickr archives and pulls 3 or 4 of the most "interesting" pictures from a year ago, and emails them to me. It's such a simple idea, but I really love getting the emails - I guess it's just crazy to me how fast time can go by, and how many memories come with a handful of old photos.

Last night I slept terribly, this weekend I came down with a pretty kick-ass body cold, and I spent all day in bed yesterday, so when it came time to sleep... I couldn't. Anyways, I rolled over this morning to see that I had a new email from Photojojo, and realized that today was June 1st, and this time last year, things were very, very different for me.

Amanda and I had finally met the crew, who had just flown from Belgium to LA to be part of this film. The five of us were driving north to Washington, where we would meet Larry and Jay at the Seattle Airport.

For those of you who haven't yet watched Episode Six, it deals with this time last year for us, and what it meant... Sometimes it still doesn't seem real to me, sometimes these memories seem like someone else's. I think the long term effects of those 64 days have yet to fully sink in for all of us.


But, aside from the nostalgia, seeing that it was the 1st already was a bit disappointing for me - today was Amanda and I's goal of having all footage imported, tagged, and ready to edit in Final Cut... and it's not there yet. A lot of it was money problems, having to wait to get another drive to import the last of the tapes and the 16mm film. So we'll see how quickly the last of the footage gets imported, it's down to just a small pile sitting on my work desk, all the tapes are labeled and ready to be filed away. I'm anxious. I've been waiting for almost 5 years to edit this film. I can't say that I'm not terrified also... we have a lot of footage to work with... but is it the right footage, did I do what I needed to do during the trip? Was I focused? Lots of little things to needlessly worry about :P

Okay - I'm going to get back to importing more footage and crawl into bed with some chicken noodle soup.