Return the Map Which You Have Stolen
Jul. 29th, 2010 08:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rinueConventional wisdom suggests the strange people come out at night, but I'm usually more disoriented between about 7am and 9am, which is why I avoid being awake during those times. Case in point: before I got to the end of the my block this morning, I passed two different homeless men pushing baby carriages down the center of the street, two cyclists in reflective vests, a jogger who entered and left the road at random, and a car that stopped and started without pattern. Give me the late night crowd, who I can at least assume are drunk.
We were up early for a dermatologist appointment for Ciro. I can say he is having an acne outbreak, but that undersells the reality, which is that he has a staph infection in the skin of his face and has developed cysts such that it hurts when he moves his face. And he is an actor and needs to look good and make facial expressions.
In any case, he is now on antibiotics and antimicrobials and all sorts of things. Afterward, we went to Metro Diner and I ordered grits (which were not tremendous grits) on the assumption that I am in a Grits Casual Availability Zone (GCAZ) for a limited time only.* Also: biscuits. Conversation was predictably wide-ranging, but something we're both chewing over at the moment is how to create a compelling ensemble of characters for a fantasy movie -- the type of characters people obsess over and write about and identify with. Archetypes are clearly not enough, nor are quirks (or simple short cuts like powers, etc). A movie is a very short time in which to establish that many people, and yet a very few manage it. (This ties back to Inception, but also to a desire to move forward on the Untitled Urban Fantasy Project in the next year or two.)
I am suprisingly not exhausted, but I do feel like I'm on a business trip, in that I don't do much other than work and am awake at different times than usual.
* Note to Texans: Speaking of regional food, Tuesday is Whataburger's 60th anniversary and if you dine in between 5 and 8pm and are wearing orange they will give you a free burger. News release here (right hand column).
We were up early for a dermatologist appointment for Ciro. I can say he is having an acne outbreak, but that undersells the reality, which is that he has a staph infection in the skin of his face and has developed cysts such that it hurts when he moves his face. And he is an actor and needs to look good and make facial expressions.
In any case, he is now on antibiotics and antimicrobials and all sorts of things. Afterward, we went to Metro Diner and I ordered grits (which were not tremendous grits) on the assumption that I am in a Grits Casual Availability Zone (GCAZ) for a limited time only.* Also: biscuits. Conversation was predictably wide-ranging, but something we're both chewing over at the moment is how to create a compelling ensemble of characters for a fantasy movie -- the type of characters people obsess over and write about and identify with. Archetypes are clearly not enough, nor are quirks (or simple short cuts like powers, etc). A movie is a very short time in which to establish that many people, and yet a very few manage it. (This ties back to Inception, but also to a desire to move forward on the Untitled Urban Fantasy Project in the next year or two.)
I am suprisingly not exhausted, but I do feel like I'm on a business trip, in that I don't do much other than work and am awake at different times than usual.
* Note to Texans: Speaking of regional food, Tuesday is Whataburger's 60th anniversary and if you dine in between 5 and 8pm and are wearing orange they will give you a free burger. News release here (right hand column).
