You know that satisfied tired feeling?
I got that today.

As I stated earlier, I’ve been working a lot. Today was a perfect example; scheduled for almost 7 hours, working for almost 11 hours.

11 hours. Doing projection.
And today was the quickest day ever.

I managed to almost mess up a print by causing the worst brain-wrap in the history of projection. Seriously. If you know what I’m talking about, just remember that this was really bad. I had removed the center metal bracket from an entire film sitting on a platter, and this film needed to be broken down into the small rolls of film it is mailed as. So Dave (this older guy) and I start trying to do this, without the metal bracket in the center of a giant circle of film. We get to the last 4th of film, and all hell breaks loose. The film VERY QUICKLY wraps completely around the center “brain” of the platter, making it impossible to pull off. We both just stood there, looking at it.

I finally wrestled it off, but it was a horrible mess. A heavy, limp mass of film in my hands. We probably spent an hour or two getting it back onto a roll by hand. I’m extremely glad Dave didn’t kill me. You should be too.

I also learned quite a bit more today. I learned to change lenses on the projectors (scope vs. flat film) and how to move entire movies from one projector to another (with the help of another person – they are heavy!). It was a busy day, and I think I set several new personal records in threading projectors 1 minute before the start of shows.

“Terminator 3″ had a public sneak, but I couldn’t watch it. We also did sneaks for “Legally Blonde 2″ and “Sinbad,” and I got stuck watching “Sinbad.” I’m not big on cartoon movies, but I have a feeling that it might have been better than the Legally Retarded one. And I got paid for watching it too.

So I worked for 11 hours, and that was my day. I was hoping to catch Amanda online tonight, but that didn’t work out very well. I should get to bed; I work in 12 hours.