August 12, 2011
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- Carole Corlew: Shelia. Happy no big deal day. I would start your very own post but this phone is in semi rebellion.
This is beautiful. It breaks my heart.
I don’t know where to say this. I got offered to do the production design on a television pilot.
How am I supposed to know what I want?
In your dreams, sweet thing. In your sweet dreams.
Why would you not?
Oh, I just realized I want to be sure you know I meant “you will know what you want through your dreams.” Definitely not a sarcastic “in your dreams.”
Our lives are the choices we make. Sometimes choosing this means foregoing the possibility of that.
Choose what makes you feel most true to yourself, sugar plum, and all will be well.
Mostly, don’t be scared.
Amae, in my dreams you are not crying. You are going! Go! Go! Go! Let your heart lead.
I don’t think I am scared. It’s more like I don’t know if the budget is there to do a very good job and I’m not sure I can do it alongside my TV editing work, which is very important that I do well at. I’d have to take days off all over the place to make it happen, and if we got picked up it’d be anywhere from like 6 episodes to a full season. I just don’t think I can. I also feel like there’s a million opportunities going on and I don’t know what to do about them. Everything I choose opens up even more things, like opening a door that leads to a hallway with more doors, endless doors.
(Oh and I knew what you meant, Sheila, no worries.)
Ah, okay. So it’s more like “be fearless.” If you believe that the new opportunity may result in a lowering of the quality of your work overall, say no.
You have plenty of time and energy at your disposal, and if taking on the new gig will sap you, screw it. It’s more important to do good work.
It’s important to do good work. But also to be doing THE good work. And I don’t mean that in a religious sense (obviously, because when do I do that?) I mean that in the way that you choose your projects because you want the next door to be even more magnificent than the last. So, can you tell if one door might have a unicorn as opposed to a used car?
Amae, we fuck the budget every time (at work). If only I could get someone to listen to me. Wait, there are a couple people with me. We scream to an empty room.