Work it baby!

So since I got back from Florence my life has been thrust into 5th gear. I have subscribed to Premium membership on Mandy, an actors' network, so have begun applying to acting jobs left, right and centre - fingers crossed I hear back from one of them! But, aside from the more aspirational side of my professional life, I am also working with my dad. The film we are making at the moment is for a company that invest in the green economy, from wind farms and biomass energy to making clothes from the fibres of pineapple leaves (cool, I know!). I have been attending meetings over the last couple of weeks, but it's only recently I really feel I've got my teeth stuck in. I helped brief a team who were in charge of a remote shoot in Singapore, I sourced - at very short notice - props for our UK shoot and transcribed all of the interviews carried out. On top of that I was present at the shoot in London (continuing next week) and even conducted some of the interviews myself. So for the first time since I've left uni I feel like I've got the opportunity to really stretch myself, to be thrown in the deep end, and to create something from nothing. That's how it felt writing essays every week. I'd always start with a blank page and feel as if an insurmountable task lay ahead of me, but somehow I'd always manage something. And sometimes that's all you need - the first word, or the gentlest nudge in the right direction. The same is true to some extent with this job. I started knowing nothing really, and the project itself started as something much smaller, but bit by bit I feel I am getting to grips with who the company are, what they want, and how we can make the best film possible for them. I also have a few other bits of research and writing work bubbling away, so fingers crossed those come good - although I am not sure what my dad will think about losing his non-dyslexic assistant (proof-reading has also been a major component of my work!)

In a strange way I have sort of missed hard work. Like really hard work. I mean I have been working since I left university, but nothing quite this intense since finals. But how times have changed. I worked 7 days a week this week, and full days all of them, and you could tell just how much work I put in because I slept in till 10am this morning! (My record is usually 8:30), and I also nearly fell asleep BEFORE our guests came round for a dinner party yesterday, even refusing a top up of wine. I know - not my style. But despite the exhaustion brought on by hard work, I think it's counter-balanced by the sense of achievement. So long may hard work continue, and long may I feel like I'm achieving something - hopefully soon it will be for a performance project. Only time will tell. But from this working woman it is over and out for the night!