The Trouble With Time Travel

Dropped the ball on this blog thing for a couple weeks it seems ("Seventeen days, to be exact," says the snooty voice of my blogging subconscious) - Whoops.

Well, imagine a flurried-hurried montage with fast-forwarding noises for a soundtrack, and the past few/several/many/lots of days that I haven't blogged about look something like this:

Fight with myspace. Fight with myspace. Hate myspace and profess love of facebook. Re-learn some html and CSS and fix myspace. Tolerate myspace again. Make random updates to social sites (EXCEPT the blog, mind you). Read over website copy. Read other marketing copy. Write copy for the SFF marketing department. Rewrite copy. REWRITE copy. Website training. Skip off to Cape Canaveral for a few days (just me, not the rest of SFF). Valentine's Day (a whole other crazy story). Staff meeting that doesn't last eight hours. Marketing copy. Copy. Copy copy copy.

So... What's new with the Festival, you ask fervently.

Tons!

And I still can't tell you about it just yet.

(I might just be being mean at this point. You'll never know.)

Instead, I will tell you one of my goals for this year's Festival. By which I mean to say, the goal my sister wants me to have. Which is: high-five William H. Macy. Which is a problem. Because Mr. W.H. Macy was a guest last year. So that means my goal for the 2009 Sarasota Film Festival is actually to build a time machine - which is a bit time consuming on top of all this proofing and copy-writing.* So we'll see how it goes.

Wendy


(*Secretly, I succeeded with the time machine goal - and I'm actually getting all the completed marketing copy and proofing from my future self.** I would turn it in sooner, except I usually talk to my future self for a few hours,*** trying to weasel information about the festival's success this year. Unfortunately, I'm much better at keeping secrets than weaseling out information.)

(**Don't tell Michele. She thinks I've been working hard!)

(***I can talk to my future self without disrupting the space-time continuum since I've had years of preparation - due to my aforementioned twin sister. I don't recommend anyone else take the risk - not without consulting Back to the Future, at any rate.)