Time Out of Mind

Time is just one of those crazy things you don't think about until you realize you don't have much of it left. Unlike most things, like say, money, fame, or power, an abundance of time is usually seen as a bad thing. At best, saying something like “I got all the time in the world” is usually meant as an aside. Of course having too little time isn't very pleasant either, but you only bring up time when you don't have enough of it anyway so that's not saying much. Well, I believe I've reached the point where I'm talking about time.

It's almost April. We're only a little beyond halfway past March, but considering I started cutting the flick in January, April appears to have sneaked up on me. Back in January was when I sent a reminder to myself to enter a festival who's last deadline was the first of April, and here we are with a movie that is still not complete. I haven't even locked the picture yet. Oh man.

I was doing well to a point. After a slow start in the first few weeks of the new year, I started hacking away at That Thing like a mad man until late February, when that screening took place. Taking a break can be productive. You'll wear the brain down concentrating on something for too long, it helps to separate yourself from the work and eventually come back with a fresh perspective. However, I think I'm taking a break that's gone on a few weeks longer than it should have. I haven't looked at the movie since, but pretty sure I've figured out all that I need to, I've gone past resting and moved on to wasting time. It's that laziness at work again, preventing me from doing any work. That and still trying to shoot a few last minute pieces of stuff. Keep telling myself that once I get that stuff I'll get back to work. Hopefully I listen.

But yeah, an actual deadline is looming, I don't have all the time in the world anymore. I'm figuring if all goes according to plan there will be a point where I need to do two or three weeks worth of work in one. And that's going to suck. But maybe it's a blessing in disguise. If there was no deadline would I ever actually finish this thing? Or would I just meander about, forever tweaking and never finishing. Yeah, let's get this thing over with already.