Happy Thanksgiving everyone! What did you all do? Me? Well I sat on my butt all day, ate food, and watched TV. It was awesome.

But lonely.

I hate holidays alone. Jess is in New Orleans until the New Year, and I’m here alone until around the 20th of December. It sucks, and I miss her. But on the bright side I don’t have to travel all that much, which is something I’m definitely smiling at.

It looks like we’ll be moving starting the 1st of the year so I’ll need as much rest as I get can until then. But honestly I’m more restless than rested right now. I can’t help but thinking, ‘What’s next?’ Obviously the answer is get a job. But there’s really nothing more I can do in that department. I’ve sent out all my reels, made a bunch of contacts, emailing back and forth. But until the holidays are over, nobody is hiring. So…I wait. And that’s not something I do naturally. It has to be forced upon me. Which is probably why that’s what I have to right now. A lesson I guess. Patience. I think I’m getting it, but part of being patient right now is giving up control. And I hate that. And it’s stressing me out. Looks like I haven’t learned that lesson yet. I guess it’ll just take time. Which is something I have a lot of right now.

But I’m keeping busy, and that’s really helping me from worrying too much. It’s been way too long since I’ve actually done some 3D visual effects. For the past 2 years it’s really all been live action integration. Which is all fine and dandy, but it’s kind of old hat now a days. So John and I are busy doing this World War I Bi-plane dogfight. It’s pretty cool. He just got this awesome pre-release of VUE 6. So we’re using that to generate this amazing sky environment. Google it if you haven’t already. ILM has made it’s primary environment generation software and has already used it for the ‘Pirate’ movies. It should be cool. I’ll let you all know when we’re done.

Anyways, that’s about it. I finally saw ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ tonight and it was really good. Especially since I got it as a free rental. I really don’t want to be that guy jumping on the band-wagon. But after watching that, it’s actually pretty hard not to want to run out and buy a Prius. I just have to say though that I thought it was hilarious that at Walmart they’re packaging the movie with ‘energy saving bulbs’. Now that’s a good idea, we should save more energy…but come on. That’s just ridiculous. And funny. And sad. And pretty funny again. But despite Walmart, you should seriously go out and rent it. Especially if you enjoy graphs, pie charts, and powerpoint presentations as much as I do.

Alright, well I’m going to bed. Goo is really missing Roxy and has taken to walking around crying. It’s sad, and it doesn’t help me with missing Jess as much as I do. It’s only been a couple days and I’m already wanting to jump in my car and drive the 10 hours to New Orleans. Maybe she’ll come back early? That’s a nice thing to dream about…goodnight…