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Why do I keep getting double-booked?
Sep. 18th, 2006 04:38 pmLong day yesterday... I got up at 7:30 in the morning to get up to Yonge and Finch around 9ish to meet John, for the film shoot I had previously posted about.
I managed to arrive around 9:10, which was pretty good considering that the subway doesn't start running on Sundays until 9, and we made our way up to the Seneca College campus in Markham, I think it was.
I was a little worried about things as I was having trouble learning my lines, for some reason. That's not normally a problem for me, but concentrating on preparing for last Wednesday's job interview took up a lot of my mental energy during the week. As it happened, I needn't have worried - not only did Lou show up half an hour late, he didn't know any of his lines. So it was shoot a line, stop, let Lou look at the script, shoot two lines, stop, let Lou look at the script, shoot a line, stop... *headdesk*
Okay, I wasn't perfect myself, but I was a hell of a lot closer to off-book than Lou was. And most of the times where I thought I was forgetting a line, the problem was actually that Lou had either given me the wrong cue or he had another line that he'd left out.
After we were done, John told me that he would drop me back at Finch station, and then he was going to have coffee with Lou. Since I had a 12:30 meeting in Mississauga that I was already late for, and John knew this (I mentioned it last Sunday when I was on the phone with him, thinking that the shoot was that day), I was a wee bit miffed about having to take the subway down to Union Station and get a GO bus (that's regional transit for my non-local friends) out to Meadowvale, where I was to be picked up. (Okay, maybe it was a bit much for me to expect that John would drive me to the meeting. Would have been nice, though, considering that he scheduled me to shoot on a day when I'd told him I had something else going on. Or maybe I should have insisted that Lou drive me, considering that he was late and didn't know his lines. But then I would have had to spend more time with him.)
Fortunately, there was a Milton bus leaving about 15 minutes after I got to Union. So I got out to Meadowvale around 2:30ish, I think it was, and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
gurudata came by to get me about 15 minutes later and take me to the meeting. The meeting ended up running until about 6, after which a small group of us went to Boston Pizza for dinner, where I had lasagne. I managed not to slop any tomato sauce on my dress shirt or tie, fortunately (yeah, I didn't bother taking a change of clothing with me, so I was in costume all day). I thought it amusing that while last time we went there for dinner, there were nine of us and my bill was marked "7 of 9" - last night, I got "3 of 5," which was Hugh's Borg designation in the TNG episode "I, Borg." You think Boston Pizza is trying to assimilate me?
whitesangria gave me a ride home, and I got in the door around 9. I had thought that the season premiere of Desperate Housewives was last night, as there were ads all over Union Station for it, but it turns out that it's not until next Sunday. So I ended up watching TV for the rest of the night. I was tired enough to go to bed around 11:45, when Outbreak ended, but then Dead Calm came on, which I'd never seen. I found myself staying up and watching the whole thing (it was quite good, actually), so I didn't get to bed until around 2, and didn't wake up until just before noon. (Like I said, yesterday was a long day.)
While I was at the meeting yesterday, I'd gotten a phone call from a recruiter in Halifax looking for people for a contract in Montreal, but I don't have assembler experience. (I last coded in assembler 20 years ago, at school.) And I just got an interesting phone call a few minutes ago - a recruiter in Pittsburgh saw my resume online, and was intrigued by my experience with a COBOL code generator called APS. I'm not sure I want to take a contract position in Columbia, SC, though.
No word from either the ADP position or the TD position yet. I called the recruiter who was submitting me to TD, but got his voicemail, and he hasn't returned my call yet. I'll wait another couple of days before calling the other recruiter about the ADP position (they did say it would be a week or two before they would have me in again, admittedly).
I managed to arrive around 9:10, which was pretty good considering that the subway doesn't start running on Sundays until 9, and we made our way up to the Seneca College campus in Markham, I think it was.
I was a little worried about things as I was having trouble learning my lines, for some reason. That's not normally a problem for me, but concentrating on preparing for last Wednesday's job interview took up a lot of my mental energy during the week. As it happened, I needn't have worried - not only did Lou show up half an hour late, he didn't know any of his lines. So it was shoot a line, stop, let Lou look at the script, shoot two lines, stop, let Lou look at the script, shoot a line, stop... *headdesk*
Okay, I wasn't perfect myself, but I was a hell of a lot closer to off-book than Lou was. And most of the times where I thought I was forgetting a line, the problem was actually that Lou had either given me the wrong cue or he had another line that he'd left out.
After we were done, John told me that he would drop me back at Finch station, and then he was going to have coffee with Lou. Since I had a 12:30 meeting in Mississauga that I was already late for, and John knew this (I mentioned it last Sunday when I was on the phone with him, thinking that the shoot was that day), I was a wee bit miffed about having to take the subway down to Union Station and get a GO bus (that's regional transit for my non-local friends) out to Meadowvale, where I was to be picked up. (Okay, maybe it was a bit much for me to expect that John would drive me to the meeting. Would have been nice, though, considering that he scheduled me to shoot on a day when I'd told him I had something else going on. Or maybe I should have insisted that Lou drive me, considering that he was late and didn't know his lines. But then I would have had to spend more time with him.)
Fortunately, there was a Milton bus leaving about 15 minutes after I got to Union. So I got out to Meadowvale around 2:30ish, I think it was, and
gurudata came by to get me about 15 minutes later and take me to the meeting. The meeting ended up running until about 6, after which a small group of us went to Boston Pizza for dinner, where I had lasagne. I managed not to slop any tomato sauce on my dress shirt or tie, fortunately (yeah, I didn't bother taking a change of clothing with me, so I was in costume all day). I thought it amusing that while last time we went there for dinner, there were nine of us and my bill was marked "7 of 9" - last night, I got "3 of 5," which was Hugh's Borg designation in the TNG episode "I, Borg." You think Boston Pizza is trying to assimilate me?whitesangria gave me a ride home, and I got in the door around 9. I had thought that the season premiere of Desperate Housewives was last night, as there were ads all over Union Station for it, but it turns out that it's not until next Sunday. So I ended up watching TV for the rest of the night. I was tired enough to go to bed around 11:45, when Outbreak ended, but then Dead Calm came on, which I'd never seen. I found myself staying up and watching the whole thing (it was quite good, actually), so I didn't get to bed until around 2, and didn't wake up until just before noon. (Like I said, yesterday was a long day.)While I was at the meeting yesterday, I'd gotten a phone call from a recruiter in Halifax looking for people for a contract in Montreal, but I don't have assembler experience. (I last coded in assembler 20 years ago, at school.) And I just got an interesting phone call a few minutes ago - a recruiter in Pittsburgh saw my resume online, and was intrigued by my experience with a COBOL code generator called APS. I'm not sure I want to take a contract position in Columbia, SC, though.
No word from either the ADP position or the TD position yet. I called the recruiter who was submitting me to TD, but got his voicemail, and he hasn't returned my call yet. I'll wait another couple of days before calling the other recruiter about the ADP position (they did say it would be a week or two before they would have me in again, admittedly).
