I haven’t been doing that much lately. I think somehow I’ve gotten past the initial New York tourist phase and I’m almost treating my time here like I live here. Apart from going to the Statue of Liberty (I’m waiting for a warmer day) and maybe a road (er… train) trip to Niagra Falls, there isn’t really too much I feel I have to explore.

My internship continues to plod along. I spent three days, once again, transcribing raw footage, but only after coming in Monday morning only to have to shovel the snow out from around the rental vans that needed to be returned. It’s amazing how much you can sweat in 30 degree weather.

Sometime either Monday or Tuesday, I overheard Dylan and Michelle talking about needing to load some more footage onto the Avid editing systems, but how they didn’t have anyone to do it, and they didn’t really want to hire anyone new to take care of it… so I stuck my head in and asked if it wasn’t something I could be trained on to help them out with. I’ve edited on almost every non-linear system, EXCEPT Avid. Anyway, Dylan looked into it, and I sat in on a loading session on Wednesday and today I am to go in late (3pm as opposed to 10am) to starting loading footage on my own. It’s not a hard process, but at least I’ll be familiarizing myself with yet another system, which many consider industry standard.

Yesterday, I went with the crew on a shoot out in Long Island. They couldn’t find a paid Production Assistant in time that had a driver’s license (Apparently driving is a specialty many New Yorkers don’t worry about), so I ended up driving the cargo van from Midtown NYC to a small community in the Long Island area. It’s a suburb just like any suburb back in Dallas. On one hand, it reminded me of home, but on the other, I finally saw a place I could see myself living without paying an arm and a leg.

I still love this city, but I’m not convinced that I could live here. Not for any extended period of time, anyway. If I were to work here, I think I would probably see if living in one of the smaller Long Island area communities and commuting every day would be a viable option. I’d be within 30 minutes of the city and I could still drive around recreationally. Parking in the city would be a pain, and I’d probably have to find a commuter parking lot near a subway station closer to the city. I don’t know. Those are just some of the things on my mind. I don’t even have a job yet, so this is all just really big speculation.