Back from a short week of vacation, which actually felt quite long, but in a good way. No tv (there was one but we didn’t watch it), no computer (we brought one but we didn’t use it), no cell phone, no e-mail, no instant messaging, no RSS feeds and no news for a week. It’s amazing how quickly one gets used to that beat!
I don’t like to travel in the summer when it’s hot and humid so I try to take my vacations during the months of September or October. The only problem with that schedule is that everybody seems to get very active again when September comes around so a lot of things tend to happen while I’m gone. I had e-mails with proposals for conferences for me to attend, questions for me to answer, phone calls to return. Where were you all just a couple of weeks ago, when everything was so quiet? I’ve got a new screenplay in the works and a producer called me during my vacation, wondering where I was (even though I had warned them I was going away), wanting to schedule a meeting for a tv show that I will start developing for them. It’s exciting and scary and it all feels like it’s happening very fast but it’s just an illusion because nothing ever works fast in the world of Canadian cinema and television.
But hey, the vacation is not over until it’s officially Monday morning so I better go take advantage of the last few hours of it! We had a great time in Bar Harbor, with perfect Fall weather, lots of sightseeing, walking, reading, sailing, drinking and playing damn trivia games. Oh, and we almost died, n’est-ce pas, MJ? I’ve got a small photo album here and there are a few more photos chez Blork and on Patrick’s Flickr.
