Hello Internets. Guess what? I got to carry a hot schoolgirl's schoolbooks today.

OK so "schoolgirl" is pushing it a bit, but let me have this one. I have so little.

Hey I'll say this: there's nothing like actually starting work on your Hallowe'en costume to really focus your life down to a laser point. This one is going to cost a damn fortune, mind you, but whoa... so worth it. Also because there were certain... um... "time sensitive" elements, I'm glad I got going now instead of post-TIFF. Post-TIFF would have been bad. Because then it's fatigue and birthdays and whatnot and before you know it it's Nuit Blanche and then the October offsite and then where are ya? Huh? You're on October damn twentieth with not a stitch stitched, that's where!

If only the same get-up-and-do-it-ness applied to my filmmaking projects. In the plus column, I finished VCR 5.1 on Friday. In the minus, VCR: The Ninth Gate pretty much has to start going to camera this weekend, or it's not happening. Man when this is all done and you see the madness I have wrought, you are going to split your unmentionables right down their vie en rose.

Otherwise it's all about the grid right now. I live and die by the grid. I put the "musts" and the "midnights" in the grid first because it made sense to do that, and then I took the first picks from the Vanguard programme (because for whatever reason, there ended up being a really nice corridor in there of flicks I'm really excited about). Already had to knock two first picks down to second picks just due to time conflicts, so it's been a rough road already. But that's all right, it's fun as fuck and I've got plenty of time to move things around.

Four down, and the timing's uncanny. Summer's over.