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First week day after the ending of my job. The best job in the universe where people come up to you and get angry that you get to do it and they don't. I miss the people already. Looked int he paper for jobs,and I quickly found out that in the real world I am a secretary. Which is kindof depressing. My skills of photoshop, video, research, everything seem pointless to my ability to type quickly. It seems that is all Richmond Jobs care about. Typing speed defines me now.

I'm posting from the VCU Arts Slide Library, and my roomate just handed me a teaching job listing for UVA. I'm honestly too depressed today to try to think about looking for a new job. I need a burger, or a steak. Something to lift the spirit a bit.

You feel pathetic going to the old teachers, asking the same people over and over again if they know of anyone who is hiring. Everyone is hiring, just no one I want to work for. I am sure of course this will all change the second I go broke.

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it is starting to get sad here. everyone is leaving, packing, and misty eyed.

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Today is my last day here at HBO. I found out yesterday around 4:30. My boss was really nice about it and I could tell he was having a hard time with telling me. We finally seemed to have bonded this past week. SO what do you do on your last day of work? Do you say what you wanted to say all along? Do you bitch out the producer who has the power to start this thing up again. Do you go find the old director and say way to go, you got out when there was no blood in the water. I think you bite your lip and finish work to the best of your ability.

So today I don't know if it will be just this post or if I find something else come in through the research mill I might post it. I'm not sure though. I guess I could write something for lunch time reading. This has been such a nice thing to do for a "right after school" job. Three months ago I was planning on teaching this fall, working on art, riding a bike to school, eating like a hobo. Now I got to work for one of the best networks in the country, for a wonderful Production Designer a great Leadman, the best set designers and such a nice art department. My first day at work was spent reading through 4 scripts and doing busy work. But once I started research for them they quit giving me busy work and sent me hunting for important little details. I will miss someone trusting me like that at work. Someone believeing in me.

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"'I cannot help observing that it seems odd the butchers themselves should sound the alarm about casualty flesh, which many people otherwise might never have thought of. The fishmongers would never cry stinking fish, and the bakers would be unwilling to have it even supposed that any made use of alum in their bread. I remember, for a great while after the affair of Elizabeth Tofts, the Rabbit-woman, the owners and renters of warrens were all ruined, for persons would as soon eat a cat as a rabbit. Should the like disgust prevail against flesh, from the fear of its being casualty flesh, what would become of Smithfield and Leadenhall Markets? There is, indeed, some danger that people will conceive an antipathy against barrelled beef, pickled pork, and all kinds of soused meat, on this occasion; and it is to be hoped that the contractors for victualling His Majesty's Navy will not buy up any of the drowned cattle, to turn the stomachs of our sailors. The unwholesomeness, however, of casualty flesh I have heard denied by a gentleman, who had been in Italy, and declared that he himself had eaten heartily (without any ill effects) of a hog that was casually barbecued, and an ox that was roasted whole in the eruptions from Mount Vesuvius." --THE MARKET ASSISTANT :De Voe

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Pete told me he had a Flicr account that he doesn't use much anymore. And what do we have but a great photo of my piece in the "Come on, Fluff my pillow" show Vol 1. You can see all the people outside watching me on my "human loop" like those animatronics in Disney World.

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What a morning and it is not even 8 yet. First email on the list is from a retired professor who is an expert on John Trumball. So much so that she was awarded a 20,000 grant for the national endowment for the humanities to hire a script writer to make a film about the life of Trumball. Obviously she knows her stuff. I should give her the name of our script writer and she can be the one to yell at him for making John Trumball look like a wimp. That's me, standin' up for the artists in film! I should start a club or something for it.

I never knew you could get a national grant to write an historic movie? Did you? By the time this is done I bet there could be a script in the works for me. I have 10 that I have been reading and learned alot about Brads. Brads are the thing that make a script stay together. Scripts for those of you who don't know are printed on 8 1/2 by 11 and have three holes on the left side, but only two holes get brads in them. I still can't figure out if they leave the one hole empty so they have a way to tell a real writer from a fake writer. It is all in the details for these people.

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Found this artist while hunting for images of Philadelphia. Born in Germany, moved to the US, studied back in Germany, and then settled in Phily to live out his life from 1812-183? His interiors have countless details of the period, such as books and newspapers in pubs for the customers to read, almanacs hanging from door ways. Chalk calendars on walls, Makeshift chairs from stumps. Toy boats for children's presents reminded me that Birthdays werne't celebrated until Mid 1800's. Thinking back to my birthdays and the incident at McDonalalds with John giving me a toy I already owned and me trying to give it to Lang, I started looking up some things about childrens toys of the era. Haven't come up with much yet but I'm sure something will turn up.
You start to get a real appreciation for these people working on a film about them. YOu start to hold reproduction objects and think how big their hands were, how strong they were, how they spent their time. You learn about their money and how everyone who wanted to survive had to be a shrewd bussiness person. I say person because of the fact that women in that period were running businesses and not only ones tha seemed gender specific. There are records from Williamsburg of women blacksmiths, coopers, Tavern Owners, Merchantile Store owners, and even an import/export trader. Thinking about their days, their worries and concerns you start to realize why they talked with such fervor and carefully crafted arguments. They had time while working with a fire, or a shovel to form full opinions. Their petty differences seemed unimportant due to the natural need of each other to survive. Today if you have an argument with your butcher you go to Kroger instead of Walmart, back then you nad to settle the differences of not have meat. Is it romantic, no, but at least it wasn't false.

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This being my first job in an office you start to notice little things that don't make sense. Take pens for instance. Everyday there are more and more pens in this building and none of them are good. The Bic, the nameless brand, the advertizment pen for Viagra, the pilot roller ball ,the EF highlighter 4009, Papermate Write Bros. All these pens feel like the pens at a bank, or the stick pens that you get with your check at Ruby Tuesdays. But today I found the mother load! Someone mentioned the art department supply room to me before, but I thought it was off limits. Everything you could ever want to use to draw with is in that room. In fact I saw a just slightly used set of Prismacolors yesterday. I wish I had needed them for something. But office supplies are supposed to end up going home with you at some point. The post-it notes that help you plan a trip, the paper clips for the articles your family emailed to you, the blank CD-R's for the I-tunes play list. If you didn't steal these then the supply boy wouldn't have a job.

So far I have only taken 3 CD's 2 pens and an office max yellow ledger with me. I was eyeing those envelopes earlier, but decided that it would be such a silly thing to take.

I remember going with Dad to westvaco so he could photocopy things. The rotten egg overly sweet smell of a paper mill hitting us as we drove up. Always yellow-gray skys at night because of all of the factory lights. Inside I envied the safety mat with a humerous drawing of a man falling down stairs that read "caution deverves a raise!" And in a metal cabinet on the second floor was where I first pilfered rubber bands. The two things that were of the most interest to me were small rubber bands and butterfly clips. Such a beutifull object that worked like a grown-ups transformer. While he photocopied, I weighted myself, looked at the syrofoam leftovers in the fridge, rubbed my feet against the rubber safety mat, and thought long and hard about the "eyewash station." After he finished stapling his lessons together, he let me put my face on the copy machine with the strict instructions to close my eyes. But you could still feel the light as it passed by. It wasn't hot, but some of the light passed through your eyelids. On the bottom edge of the paper he would write the date, and my age.

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how great is this little etching?

And speeking of great ghosts. This might help those trying to cope. It has made it seem ok to cry about it.

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After spending five days on the hunt for information about the hanging of this Painting I was told to "let it go." THey are building metal jacks that will be hammered into the ground for the painting to rest on so it can be easily moved for camera. Something I didn't think about. Most likely my sources from the Smithsonian, Yale, and various other places all agree that it must have been rolled and restretched for each viewing. It is one of those questions that just isn't that important to them. If I had been more opinionated I would have demanded more time to search for this small bit of information. But in the end making a movie is about compromising and the closer you are to the bottom, the more it is you who compromises.

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Started out today with some long prayers for mom and dad. After waiting for too long we finally have a place to take dad so he doesn't have to stay in the hospital anymore.

This picture (sorry about the flash) was taken before Chris proposed to his wife at Roaring Run. Shawn and dad played over by the iron furnace and studied some slag (the rocks in his hand). I have one of those rocks in my room in an old wooden bottle container. I have stones from all kinds of important days in my life now. But normally I have his in my pocket. When you start puting importance on little bits of iron ore you get careful about where you put your change in your pants, or your keys. Cause what happens if you pull your keys out and the rock comes with them? And then it falls on the ground and you lose it forever? I actually take time in the morning to try to put all change and keys in one pocket so that my rock won't get tugged out by acident.

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At the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library I spent a good twenty minutes wandering around trying to take in the reality of colonial Interperators (spelling) looking up items on Microfiche. One dead time using a dead library is haunting. Asking advice from the librarian who made me remember I was in a library and to keep my voice down immediately, she showed me the querry files that are in a motorized filing roticery of sorts. Since 1965 any staff member who wishes to answer a written or oral question in detail will make a memo that is then stored in the querry files. Basically every question anyone has ever had about Williamsburg is stored in this system. From meat, to garage, to hats, to ancestors, to milk, corn, rice, tomatoes, shoes, desks, bathrooms, fingernails, and lice. However the answers are mostly just directions to a good book that contains the answer. Not the page number, or chapter, just a list of books. Some have the wonderful addition of a few other suggested subjects to research in addition to those "answered." It was a wonderful maze that I just didn't have time to learn about.

Those are printing plates above, wrapped in new-old prints of the Virginian Gazette. I think we are filming there so watch for them when the series comes out.

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Back from Billburg with news beyond news. I have been invited to work for just one day in the kitchen at the Govenor's Palace. Why am I so giddy about it? If you understood my love of historical cooking, or knew about how much I need a boost to get this Options Show ready you would be smilin' with me. Yes it will be quite hot, and I'll loose a few pounds, but will you learn how to make liberty teas, mince pie, spotted dick, or salt pork wrapped trout?

All in all it was a fantastic day at Williamsburg, good guide who stopped people from going into character when we asked questions. I think it is the fake persona that bothers me so much. I admire the learning of a long dead skill, the attentions to detail, and the fact that everyone who wants to move up the ladder has to do copious amounts of research. It's just the sing song voices of the past that make me want to punch them. So were all glad that didn't happen. Picked up some books, new (though quite old) cookbook, and got a few business cards to help with my hunting. Taking it slow this morning as best as I can.

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Tomorrow is a great day. I am going to Williamsburg for research about food. After talking on the phone to Rob Brantley who is a journeyman in the Colonial Foodways department they are going to let people know that I am coming to the Govenor's Palace to ask everything food. So excited, so happy, couldn't ask for more. I have actually been thinking for a while about interning at williamsburg in the foodways program. It would be a change for sure, but it could be quite interesting.

Well they aren't hiring just yet.

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the new rumor, this is why we are taking a break on production.

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my desk is a sad little world full of deer park and diamond spring water. I never finish my second or third coffee each day so they just collect on the desk till I knock one over on to some papers, and then the whole thing gets cleaned. If you haven't seen PBS's Colonial House I say go watch it stat! They most likely have it in the library for free, or get it from net flicks. Powerful stuf that made me cry and laugh and smile that uncontrolable happy smile you only get when you realize that you landed safe and someone is waiting for you outside of the gate.

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Not sure how accurate these things are that the fabricators made, but I like them! I said that people just put up the broad side made by the Sam Adams but they wanted something stronger. Almost finished with "The Speckled Monster" which is a most illuminating book on the 1720 epidemic. My favorite part is where Cotton Matther's slave answers the question, "did you ever have small-pox?" with "Yes and never." It is such a great way to talk about the idea of treatments that use the disease to build antibodies.

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Back in the office I realized that the bosses are out shopping for the movie. Picking up irons and bowls, cups and napkins. If things work out we get to go to Williamsburg this friday. Oh to talk to other crazy people about history. My plan is to do like Pete and ask them all, "Excuse me do you have the time?" or my personal favorite, "Hey, my friend is sick, can I use your cell phone?" I have to catch one reach for his pocket. I just have to!

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One of my bosses was so freeked out when I told her about the leeches that Julia and I went to go see in the world famous Hugh Mercer House. If you need to learn about how to Purge yourself I recomend the powdered murcury, as it will clean you out quite fast according to our "Living Historians." So why is there a picture of Jesus painted in 1730 at the top of this post? Well I get to submit my recomendations for folk paintings to be remade for the movie! Yes, I who know nothing about colonial folk art am in charge of gathering all of the propper era works still in existance for interior shots of houses. I want three of these somewhere, and maybe an oversized donkey too.

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So after each state ratified the constitution there was a parade in Boston and Phili, home of the federalists. I really wish we were making a movie about 1835 and I could say, "well this parade happened, and we must have it in the movie! We must!"

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Rough night last night, rougher morning trying to get up. The office seems slow, and careful today. I think everyone is waiting for some more bad news. Supposedly I might be heading over to the special collections at williamsburg this week to scope out some goods. I need to find ways to take field trips.

Going to talk to the props department about what meals are being served to the guests. Might call the author of this revolution in eating book for some help on how to arrange meals for the table.

My shirt smells like at thrift store.

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Ben Shaw's photo of a 1935 Medicine Show.

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Now I get to look up my favorite hero of theatre, Punch! I remember some time ago sitting on a concrete floor watching a puppet show that made me roll on the ground because this puppet was beating his physic with a club. When this thing is over maybe I will start my own troupe.

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Trying to find out what Cloth was shipped in. Were they wrapped in Oilskins? Who knows? I must learn about everything for this movie, and learn it without getting a swelled head.

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Folk art form the Abby Aldrich collection that they want in the film. Well something like this. I think that the people who could afford a portait wouldn't have been the Adams. Looking for the correct potatoes for all seasons, yes there are some that could be harvested as early as mid March. So the Irish could have survived in colonial new england.
Trying to keep at a reasonable pace. Finished my tretise on Herbs.

Still Have A JOB

So today there was a meeting with the producers and the department heads. I am no longer a Researcher (technically) Now I am a set Dresser! Which means when they need to re-hire after the break, I will already be on the records as a Set Dresser and they can just move me on over if they want. What does this actually do for me? Nothing. I just feel good that I didn't get fired today, cause honestly there was a good chance I could have been.

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Friday is here and My boss came into the office to let me know how things are going to work out. After asking about my father, my life, and saying he's so happy that I found the Rye for him (which we will be getting for free) he wants to try to keep me into till the end of september. Set dress will be shutting down for October and most likely November. He wants me to come back either november, december, or Jan depending on approval. So now I know. No matter what happens I am getting paid to learn things that no one really needs to know about.

Calling Strawberry Bank Musuem today to talk about historic crops. Going to be an interesting conversation I hope.

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Charles Peale Polk's painting of his wife with a deer, amazing? Found this jem while on the San Fransico online exhibit page. I can't buy the book I need because I was told to not buy anything else. So there you go! I most likely will not get reembursed for what I purchased so far, but it was only 50 bucks or so, so I'm not sweating that either.

I'm having more fun now that my boss seems to think I am doing a good job. I just need more confidance, find more things out and answer the questions people have to a T. The thing is they don't take my word for it, like they do on reading rainbow... On my desk is a Hardee's big cup, and it is peeing down the desk, which is a fold up plastic table. Does anyone have a book on crop production in Colonial New England, and the seasons it happened in?

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I think saints are kind of like Grandfathers who are looking out from heaven just keeping an eye out for those in need. But if any of them could put in a good word for my father I think it would be St. Michael who stood up to the dragon that eventually became the symbol for healers. I wanted to say alot more here but can't seem to figure out how to say it.

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I need to eat better. Waking up with Headache, going to bed with headache, after an hour at work my eyeball is hurting and I can't seem to fix it. Do I need glasses? Do I need more sleep?

So the big news for the day is the October Vacation that I am not sure if I will have, or want, or need, or what-have you. I need to find a way to not spend any more money on food durring this whole thing.

OUtside there is a giant upside down boat being built and after they finish it it goes to the farm where it sits in grass. Why not put the boat in water you ask? Well Braintree Productions doesn't use water, we use CGI because CGI is cheeper than building a lake, or making the boat actually waterproof.

Garden design

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This is from an 18th century journal. Watercolor plan for a garden in front of a house. How awsome is this? Still have that sharp pain in front of my eye and I don't know what from. caffene? Water? Anger?

So the production is going on hold for one month in October, which would be great. When will I be kicked out? I hope not before that so at least I can save some bucks.

I am not sure how long this production is going to take, or if I am going to be on it for the whole thing. Today we found out that filming isn't going to start until Feb and we are trying to do as much as we can to or through October but after that, who knows.

Must not let it stop me from working hard on this project.

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Donuts, dutch, candy figs, finger bowls. Why do we need to know about this? Because now I have to come up with still lifes of the colonial era to be put in the houses and they need to know how to historically arrange flowers. I can't wait to have phone calls with flower arranger researchers. That is a field that I never want to be passionate about. When people say working on a movie you meet so many interesting people they were right, but you also have to call the obsessed ones.

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Woke up at work, not actually but it feels like it. Been thinking that maybe I should have coffee before I start driving here. First thing when you pass through the front doors you walk by the stink wall. People here have many names for it: Peruvian poo-wood, Brazilian stink-oak, etc. Personally I think it smells like a sunday school classroom. Animal cracker farts and baby powder mixed with milk. One would think with how image conscience these people are that someone would complain to a producer and get it removed.

First email of the morning is from an Antiques Gallery on 42nd St. NY. He wonders how accurate do I need the globe, and am I interested in renting or buying. If this was any other job that decission would take a few days to a few weeks, but not here. I found the globe that they wanted, sure it is from 1650, but no one will notice. BTW did you know that the Terrestrial globe in Tomb Raider and in Harry Potter are the same? If you happen to be forced into a chair and tied down to watch Laura Croft Tomb Raider, I suggest looking for it.

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wrong with this painting
1 floor
2. clothes
3. wigs
4. too many people in the room at once
5. size of the room
6. eagle and flags on the wall
7. window coverings during July would have been Blinds
8. Molding is off
9. table cloths are wrong
10. inkwells and quills wrong
11. almost everything else.

What have we learned from working on this production so far. Don't trust artists, they make history be whatever they want it to be. Take this painting that someone wants to hang in a room around 1800, well lets not forget it was painted slightly after 1800, and there was one copy of it, not to mention If you were there, why would you want a historically inacurate painting of an event that was tyranous? Wny not go with the Edward Savage engraving that was made 1776. Look it up, much better, the men actually look hot being in the room.

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these cards were printed by the government to be purchased by a secret agency and then shipped to P.O.W. Camps from places like the red cross. Glued between each card is a part of a map of Europe to help POW's escape. How amazing is this. Library of congress, I will see you soon!

All in a name

My bosses have told me when contacting companies, services, or anyone that we might pay to use the production company's name. When we talk to libraries, museums, or history buffs use the network name or the producers names. So when the casting call came out they used the big names. Sorry if you missed the deadline, I am sure it will happen again in a few months.

Globes and Gores

I never knew how they made globes. I mean I figured it had to involve cutting up a map somehow and simple math to perform a complex idea. This is my favorite gore (section of a globe) because it shows California as an Island. I was thinking that Marc might make an attempt at making this a reality.

Next day off

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Heading out to the Virginia Frontier Life Museum on my next day off. Get some inspiration, some photos, and some fresh air.

New Harp

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This is the harpsichord that I am suggesting we rent for the film. I have learned that my job is only to suggest, I never make any direct choices. When they need maps, I pick the appropriate maps and try to hide the flashy ones that wouldn't actually work for the period. From what I read this Harp was based on a brishis design from 1745 or so and would have ample time to be remade in America, or to be coppied as most artistic achievements were of that era.
I hope they go with this one, it is both a strong object, clear in period, and simple enough to belong to a person like JA.

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Waiting for the omish liason officer to get back to me with Wheat, on to looking up the brothers who invented the first ballon to life people from the ground. What a novel idea they had. This is Etainne's wife, we don't actually know her name to this day. At least I couldn't find it. She is supposed to be in the film episode 7-8 somewhere with the ballon men in France.

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Everything I know about woodworking I learned through this man. He worked as master HouseMan at Williamsburg for quite some time and then started his own show. The funny thing is I always put him and the new yankey workshop together and thought they both were from somewhere way up above New York. Thinking that New York City is where the world ends and the Colonial people start.

He is supposed to be working on a few projects for the production (they hope) and I might just meet him. Funny how I am more excited about meeting someone on PBS than on HBO. Thought quite long and hard about buying the "Colonial House" DVD Set for my early birthday present for myself but at the last minute I realized that my birthday is only a month away and someone will get it for me.

All the wood here is cut with power tools and then they rough it up with chainsaws, strippers, and other rough sawed materials. I saw one guy outside shaving at the wood with a hand saw, and beside him someone had an ax to chunk out some timbers for something.

Lunch again was not that great, for about 20 minutes I was under the impression that I could get free lunch because I am a PA, but I am not a PA I am an A, just an A so no lunch unless I get a P. He he. My boss must trust me more because he gave me a big assignment to contact Wheat Producers. He heard me on the phone and said I could sell anything. I always hated calling, and still do hate calling people at work. Some phobia I learned when I was a kid.
Anyway, time to add to my netflick list and get back to work.

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Today I get to start mustering interest from Rev. War re-enactors. Oh the crazies are coming out of the woodwork!

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How did you do it, you crazy old man? I just found out he gets copies of every script made. I hear he was at the casting up in New York yesterday evening which I assume is a good sign. Somewhere in the building is the "Sreen Test" of the actor our old Director wanted to play John Adams. Some british Theatre actor, that the network didn't want.

Changing inks again means I am working hard.

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This morning I forgot to take a shower, and almost forgot to wake up but so glad I did in time to hear a StoryCorp story on NPR. What was your Proudest Moment? When did you feel most alive?

Just started noticing the way tube lights buzz and flicker, and I hope it stops once people show up. Iwant the art directors to get here soon. I hate hearing this place be quiet, feeling like a real work-place. They talk loud about the oddest things. Yesterday two of them were arguing about Homeless Relocation Programs. I had never heard of such a thing, but obviously there must be one somewhere. But if they are homeless, what home are you relocating them from.

Anyway, today I get to check out the blueprints for the Leeching box. This one looks a little low to the ground on the product side. I also found some leeching stones, circular flat rocks with a cut groove to pour out the lye through. Each one big enough to hold about a large UPS box of ashes on top. Witing for an email from the National Parks Service, reading TH Breen's "The Marketplace of Revolution." Not bad if you want to find out about consumer politics in colonial new england.

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for someone who misses these things so much.

I'm keeping a lookout for the good stuff.

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Researching scales and weights for the market place and came upon this great photo of Kelvin when he was a young proff. You only ever see him as an old grizley man with white stringy beard but looking at him with his determinative eyes and intensity, is humbling. I mean I never understood the Kelvin Scale but look at the guy, doesn't he look like he is the perfect mad scientist. Hollywood has nothing on the real deal.

This afternoon I am calling some reenactors from the British Regulars who advise me to not contact the Boston Company of Minute Men, "They promise 100 and deliver 20, and those twenty presented are children." Some fires never die.

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Coffee was made for me today, lucky charms stayed milk resistant, lots of emails from Reenactors and history buffs. I choose to use email to talk to historians, they like to read. It might be quicker on the phone but I figure they can go more in depth with type.
Outside they are making a effigy of someone from england, It isn't the research I gave them. But they do like these robes and want to make them and then burn them.
Everyone here has huge address books full of important peoples numbers. Today I might get to talk to the Woodwright from PBS. Personal hero of mine who worked at Williamsburg for 10 years or so. Expert on hand hewn wood.

Might solve my problem

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Gave up for a while on a project involving martyr's and remembering the dead. But today it hit me that maybe something was done through printing. This one is at the Library of Congress and I have to call them to find out dimensions. I hope my team goes for it cause it would seem quite accurate and could save us alot of energy building or making something that was not accurate in the least.

Horid lunch break at a Super Buffet Chinese Place where people were just stuffing themselves, and then I come back here to work and everyone from New York is eating salad. That's all they eat. The Craft Service rooms have bagels that are so yummy, but I found out today that they are low carb. Low Carb is like eating air, and I'm trying to save money by eating what's provided as much as I can, which means the lucky charm box in the craft room somehow ended up under my desk for snacking purposes.

Woke up with the hope that coffee would already be made by one of the other Production Assistants. Having an office makes me feel like I am slightly ahead of the game. A few new people started in set dress department, two from VCU, one was a student of mine. There is a family feel about everyone here, old young, some people act like the goofy uncle, others the attention needing child. I am trying to keep things as professional as possible, not talk about my personal life too much. This is my first Job in the "Real World" and I don't want to offend anyone.
I was standing at the color copy machine making two new versions of books to be taken on set by the dress team and I started feeling like a robot. Like a monkey could do this job if he was wearing a diaper.

BTW I miss my friend too.

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Just found out that I can use screen capture on my mac and the Detroit Institute of Art has a great zoom function and together I get to see cracks in paintings.

This by the way is by John Singleton Copley, who also did the only painting of Andrew Oliver who was secretary distributor of stamps durring the stamp act. He had an effigy made of him and burned while the Sons of liberty raided his house and stole the stamps, threw them all over the place. Why is this needed, don't ask me, they just need it.

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So this is the father of George III, the reason my old roomate doesn't drink tea. To quote Michael, "Ryan, you don't want King George the third breathin' down your neck?!"

I have to decide what paintings are going in the courthouse of Boston circa 1760

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I always thought that the use of text in America was extremely limited. But I guess it works with the pictures. Kindof like McDonald's menus. Anyone can point and say numbers.

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So the big bosses are ready to ask me more about making soap. Have to put together some more photos of chandlers, leeching boxes, and wicks.