Middle of the week - yea! Also know as 'hump day' which is never as fun as it first sounds. This week so far has been National Guard video production week. Monday and Tuesday I did audio (boom mike coming through!) and producing (get that boom mike out of the shot!) which isn't a bad gig. However today I was solo as a photographer. Typically, when one works video production you have multiple people to help you out - audio person, camera person, producer, and maybe even a grip. As a photographer I got no one - just me. Which at times can be nice because nothing beats working by yourself (you get to take all the credit if it comes out killer). What made today long and arduous was that I had to shoot outside the whole time in the cold, cold weather. So I'm really tired........no running tonight for me. I figure I've been out in the cold enough today.

The National Guard kids we are working with are, well, mostly kids. One of them is a 19 year old scheduled to deploy overseas in March. While he does not seem concerned about being on the frontlines he's confessed to our production team that he really hopes he's married before he ships. Since he's not mentioned dating/seeing/being involved with anyone I'm guessing he's got two months to find and marry a gal. I can see how being deployed overseas into such places as Iraq or Afghanistan would be stressful - and how some of that stress might be dissipated if said person had a loved one waiting and praying for them back home. So I do hope he finds one - because he really wants one. However the realist in me thinks he's going to have to tough it out solo this time. Poor lad.