It is 6:49 a.m. I am in the Castellaw video editing room. I’ve been up all night. I feel awake, thanks to good old adrenaline, but my stomach is starting to feel not so great. All this means nothing to me, because I have finished my first rough cut of “Filtered,” my short film that has been driving me crazy for the last two months.

Obviously, it’s rough. But I’ll be damned if I’m not pleased with how it looks so far. It neeeds a LOT of tweaks… but… man, I’m happy. Even the down-converted, crappily composited, one-pass DVD I just threw together blows everything I’ve ever done out of the water. I can’t wait to finish this thing. It will be a glorious day. A glorious day, indeed.