Work is crazy right now!
I got the upgrade to main boom operator! It's a pretty sweet gig. Leaves me pretty tired though - 12 hour days with upwards of an hours commute each way... haha.
But it's awesome. I get to be on set all day, and there's never a moment when my brain isn't going! My shoulders and back sure have gotten a lot stronger too! It's a super physical job, but it's absolutely getting easier. And, in the last two weeks, I've only had one boom in! (compared to 7 in the first three weeks :P ) Still tonnes of stuff to figure out with the job though... Lots of etiquette stuff that can be a bit complicated at times.
Music has been pretty awesome to me recently too - been revisiting Pink Floyd and Supertramp, two of my favorite bands. I just bought Eddie Vedders "Hard Sun" and Imogen Heaps "Hide and Seek" off of iTunes - two of my favorite tunes! I just learned that my computers speakers are actually really good. I guess I get used to listening to really bad quality sound at work (lots of static and hissing in the Comteks we use) that it's a real treat to listen to any good quality signal.
As for skating though - not much has been happening. I've been for a couple rollerblades in the last two weeks, but generally I've just been sleeping lots in an effort to stay healthy. I know that once the show is done, I'll have tonnes of time to train. I think that it's actually a good thing for me to have this time. I really get to evaluate what I want / don't want, and visualize where I want to be once they put the ice back in the oval.
Well, another two weeks and then we get a nice bit of a break. I think I'm gonna head out to Fairmont for a few days to visit Andrew. Sort of a yearly thing. It's always fun to go out there - play some golf, go swimming in the lake, rock out in general - hopefully cook some really good food. Well, I'm gonna go find something fun to do with my afternoon!
Ciao!
-Ryley
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