Raquel? Posting notes? Is this real life?

These are notes on the Cross Cultural Human Resources class I start next week. I am hoping to get a nice head start as I have never liked HR classes so I want to be done as quick as possible.

Instead of taking pictures, I’ve decided to try scanning them instead! I quite like it as it keeps the quality.

Until I Write Again,

I write chapters in stages.

I will write some angst, then some evil, then some aftermath, then some dancing.  You get the idea. Then I work them together so that, hopefully, they flow into my mental movie and a coherent story overall.

The Google pages I currently have open for research include, but are not limited to: American Football. Tibetan names and their meanings. Dancing to trance music. Northern hemisphere constellations. American fast food franchises. and the always open tab of: DC Wikipedia - a lifesaver, even if I’m writing AU

It struck me as an odd combination to anyone that happened to look.

Just wanted to share how weird my life has become since undertaking my first ever long fan fiction.

It's a thing that comes up in all areas of my life. Past Dave. Future Dave. In which Past Dave always does Future Dave a solid.

Okay well... not always.

Not tons.

Actually, a lot of times Past Dave doesn’t think about Future Dave at all.

However.

When he does.

It.

Is.

Magnificent.

Past Dave shows up more noticeably in my professional life. He started helping me out at the beginning of my career when he would write complex instructions in a notebook detailing the different post production tasks he was assigned at the production company where he worked. The idea was to never have to ask how to do a particular job more than once.

And you know what?

It worked.

I'm not sure where the note thing came from. It wasn't specific advice I received. It wasn't my habit at the time... although I was big by then on jotting down funny things I heard. 

What I will say is that my first job was very detailed. There were specific things that had to be done in order in particular ways at specific times. And if that kind of thing didn't cry out for cheat notes... I don't know what does. 

At that time in my career, maybe Future Dave was a day in the future. Maybe a week or a few weeks for complicated tasks that didn't come up super often.

That was the beginning, though, of sending messages to Future Dave.

This year, Past Dave is also doing me solids for the travel series I'm editing and for which I'm composing the soundtrack. He organized all my virtual instruments and loops and sound design elements months ago so that as I'm composing now... I can easily find the instrument or sound element I'm looking for in a matter of seconds. Same deal with going through thousands of clips and adding metadata to each one so I can lay my hands on any given piece of footage at the speed of thought.

Past Dave also provided me with two completely different ways of composing music. One that's intentional, focused on sheet music and midi data. The other that's organic, focused on my hands and inspiration.

Those approaches to composing  produce different results, by the way. It's a difference that actually did me a huge solid with a piece of music I worked on for weeks... that ended up not fitting the producer's vision. What they had in mind, though, clearly called for a different process. And the very next version of that music I produced got the job done. Nailed it in one, if you will, once I switched my creative process.

That was Past Dave doing Future Dave a solid across months. And that kind of feat has come up a bunch this year. Mostly because I'm juggling a television series shot with multiple cameras. I’m using Avid Media Composer, Adobe After Effects, and Ableton Live. I'm responsible for three different jobs that, on really tough weeks, overlap. So it's crucial to be thinking about Future Dave, like, all the time. To be doing that guy solids so that the project keeps rolling in ways that are worthy of all of our efforts.

After all, we don't just want our new series to be done. We want it to be beautiful, amazing, wonderful. 

We want it to be extraordinary.

23 pages ahead on Boxes

44 pages ahead on Safety

13 pages ahead on Sketchbook Comic

and 46 pages ahead on Useless

Feeling good about this, haha.  Building my buffer up further!!  Building it to the moon!!

just finished an assignment due five pm on sunday & a paper due next tuesday.