I was driving through Pantops on Thursday, when I realized how utterly dead the world was that day. I don’t think I’d ever been out driving on Thanksgiving before, but as I had to go into NBC this week for my internship, I found myself cruising through town while most people were sitting down to diner with their families. It was very creepy - there were maybe ten cars that I was able to see on Pantops. And then once I got downtown, it was even worse. Five people, along the whole stretch of the mall. No stores open. Wind blowing hundreds of leaves across the uneven bricks, with a slight echo on everything that made a noise. Not even at 1:30 in the morning is it that dead (don’t ask me why I’ve been downtown at 1:30 in the morning).

My family did the whole Thanksgiving thing on Friday - for the second year in a row, actually. We must be rebels…

I finally got my dailies for the American Cinema Editor’s Student Editing Competition today. Every year, ACE holds a competition where they let video editing students cut together a scene from a television pilot. Out of the fifty entrants, the top three get to attend the ACE Eddie Awards in California in February. I entered last year, and had a simply marvelous time editing Scene 34 of the unreleased pilot from NBC Universal, “Haskett’s Chance.”

So imagine my surprise when I got my dailies today, and discovered a daily DVD containing… Scene 34 of Haskett’s Chance. They sent out the same scene as they did last year! I’d been so excited to get my hands on something new, wondering what the scene would be about… I never even considered they’d reuse the one from last year… Ah well, I suppose I can try to work things from a different perspective this time or something… *sigh*