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[VisaJourneyLady 33]

no, not dissing the weekends, I've just never been good at really using them to their full potential. I lay around, then I feel like doing something, but it's already to late to organise, and I go back to laying around, watching TV and feeling like a slob.

It was smoky in the air around here yesterday, hope it's better today.

[Trompe le Monde 1,107]

See, that sounds like the perfect weekend to me!

Air quality seems better today, I think.

[VisaJourneyLady 33]

Just got to my new office (which I have allllll to myself, for the moment, I will be sharing). No natural light, but really fun to be working at a studio!!!

[Trompe le Monde 1,107]

Are you on the lot? Forgive me if you told me the other night!

I still think it's fun walking around the studio lot.

[VisaJourneyLady 33]

Yup, I'm at Universal, and I think I'm allowed to go in to the theme park, but only for lunch, not for going on rides!

[no name 1]

Are you on the lot? Forgive me if you told me the other night!

I still think it's fun walking around the studio lot.

Speaking of, I heard your Xmas party is pared down/non-existant this year?

[Trompe le Monde 1,107]

pared down.

It's no big deal - we still get free booze. I could care less about the entertainment or the raffle prizes I enver win.

[no name 1]

pared down.

It's no big deal - we still get free booze. I could care less about the entertainment or the raffle prizes I enver win.

I don't know what we get (if anything) - no spouses allowed but it was fun last year on the lot!

[Trompe le Monde 1,107]

this one will still be on the lot but there will be no big tent or djs or casino or anything

[no name 1]

this one will still be on the lot but there will be no big tent or djs or casino or anything

wow. What will there be? That's all we had last year!

[Trompe le Monde 1,107]

booze and nibbles in one of the sound stages!

I imagine someone will "dj" on an ipod

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

This will be my first year without an office or grad school Xmas party since 1996. Should I be sad or relieved?

That being said, we can make our own office party when we have the UK VJ LA ladies get together next month... I'll bring my printer as it also functions as a photocopier. There should also be karaoke involved, ####### drinks, cocktail sausages, soppy speeches, etc etc. I will also smoke at least one cig.

There, now I feel better.

[ginger1981 0]

Hey guys Thursday is my first day at my new job. Friday, yesterday and today I spent putting videos in to the edit bays for America's funniest Home Videos. I'm very tired of watching kids and pets doing dumb things.

How's the decisionmaking coming Robin?

I was watching a Bob Saget comedy special on HBO and he said that people would send in porn quite often to AFHV. He also said they got some really bizarre ones. Apparently someone sent in a video of a guy wearing SCUBA gear climbing a ladder by his pool (assuming he was going to jump off the ladder into the pool). The guy was waving and yelling "Hey Bob!" when the guy fell off the ladder. Apparently the next 20 minutes of the video was just of the guy laying there...either conked out or dead, Bob Saget really wasn't sure.

Decision making was completed last night - my present employer made me an offer I simply could not refuse. Huge promotion and raise. AS much I was interested in the BBC offer, I couldn't help but shake that it would have been a sideways move and that I would have to spend the next year or so building the relationships and good will in order to progress forward - basically to get what current employer is offering right now would be at least a few years down the line. I never expected this to happen so quickly.

It seems so odd, to have such choices in this economy. I suppose it's karmic payback for all my career woes back in the 90s economic boom.

I think that is one of the awesomest dilemma's I've ever heard of. Congradulations!

Ginger, have you had the meet up yet? how'd it go?

The meet up went well...everyone that showed up was super nice and we had lots of pizza to go around!

I've been completely boring lately except for a celebrity spotting this weekend. I was running along the lakeshore in Evanston (which is the suburb immediately to the north of Chicago...home of Northwestern University) with a friend of mine. Since it was pretty cold and windy there weren't very many people out and about. So we're going along and we come upon a guy, a woman, and a youngish woman pushing a baby stroller. As we're passing by them I look over at the guy and I think to myself...jeez he looks familiar. And then I'm like...jeez he looks just like Jerry Springer. My friend looks over at me and is like "Holy #######, it's Jerry Springer."

I had my camera phone with me and I wish I would have taken a pic but he was obviously spending time with his family and I would have felt bad bothering him. I found out later that night that his daughter lives in Evanston so he was probably up there visiting her.

[VisaJourneyLady 33]

Glad to hear it worked out, it would have really sucked to have to pay for people that didn't show up.

TBH i didn't really see anything too crazy on my few days at AFV as they like to call it. One video though I did fell pretty queasy about, it was a little girl, totally naked, she was maybe 4 or 5, and she had scribbled all over herself with a marker. Weird. What kind of parents just tape that, and then think to themselves - I know!! I'll send this to ABC so it can be put on National TV!! I don't know if they were going to blur out the little girls bits or just cut around them (she kept bending down to write on herself some more) but I thought it was really odd.

[ginger1981 0]

Glad to hear it worked out, it would have really sucked to have to pay for people that didn't show up.

TBH i didn't really see anything too crazy on my few days at AFV as they like to call it. One video though I did fell pretty queasy about, it was a little girl, totally naked, she was maybe 4 or 5, and she had scribbled all over herself with a marker. Weird. What kind of parents just tape that, and then think to themselves - I know!! I'll send this to ABC so it can be put on National TV!! I don't know if they were going to blur out the little girls bits or just cut around them (she kept bending down to write on herself some more) but I thought it was really odd.

It may seem cute, but as a parent...seriously did they not think of the pervs out there?

I suppose you had plenty of videos of men getting hit in the balls with various objects, right?