Opportunity knocks...

Big news! Most of you already know, a year ago, my old video production professor put my name on a National Endowement of the Humanities grant for a national doc he's producing on renovated 'old-time' movie theaters across the country; he'd have me under a year contract through CMU (yep, I'd get paid for this). He won't know if he's received the grant until June 15th, so I had a meeting at work today, and they are supporting me all the way!!! Aside from two weeks of field production this August and four weeks of travel in early summer 2005, I would be able to work on my lunch break, after work and on weekends booking lodging, logging tapes, giving input on script, and overseeing edits in Mt. P.

I can't express how happy I am that my bosses are giving me the green light...they truly are the best people to work for, and they realize that this opportunity can only help me - they're very proud of me. Deep breath, because he doesn't even have the grant yet. But if he gets it...oh man...my life will be flipped upside down, but I'd love every minute of it.

On a random note: I just found out that the Magic Bag used to be a porno theater until the mid 1980s. A pornography landmark, right in our backyards. Ah, the depth and breadth of Detroit culture!

Am I missing out because I opted to purchase The Pixies "Wave of Mutilation -Greatest Hits" last night? Because really, their entire Coachella concert in on there. I figured this was a good refresher, since their performance in Indio was right on. "Gigantic" makes me walk to do cartwheels in my tiny apartment.

Has anyone heard from Chris and Amber? I thought they would be back in town yesterday. I hope Utah didn't swallow them up...