Back to Work

We’ve been off, enjoying a little holiday vacation for the past week, and the time has never gone by so fast.  But tomorrow it’s back to the set, and I’m hoping my stuffed toy dog Snoopy will be able to play a small (nonspeaking) part in the upcoming scenes at our next location.  If so, this will be his tenth film, and a continuation of his incredible acting career.

My dog’s last appearance was in the soon-to-be-released film Extraordinary Measures, starring Brendan Fraser and Harrison Ford.  Snoop played in a scene with Brendan, and hopefully this moping, one-eyed stuffed dog will be seen in the background, sitting with a woman near the left side of the frame as Brendan races through a hospital waiting room.

So now it’s off to get some beauty sleep for my dog Snoopy and for myself some sanity sleep.  My “vacation” was a nonstop parade of driving, frantic Thanksgiving visits, hideous illness, and working on my flip house, interrupted on one day by an amazing, shamanic animal encounter, compliments of my hawk friend Tennerin.  That last brilliant, strange event I am still trying to process, and will probably be thinking about it even as I rush into set to deal with some emergency tomorrow.

It’s good to be going back to work—I’ve missed the crew with all our camaraderie.  And without my radio and headset on all day, I’ve been missing those voices in my head, too.