Well, I'm done with my internship, and it... well, it wasn't always a whirlwind, but when it was crazy, it was CRAZY. I feel like that's actually a fair summary of the film industry in general. When I first got to Stillking, there was nothing to do. But everyone had just gotten back from holiday, there were jobs on the table -- it was fine. Until the second week. And the third. And soon, I began to realize that just because you SHOULD be getting jobs, for ...

Pretty quickly, we've learned to roll with the punches here. We lost power the other night; just lit up some candles and tried not to think about the screams we heard a couple houses down. Had our water cut another night; just sighed and hoped quietly that the council would turn it back on in time to shower the next morning. The Spar down the street, for example, has had a rough week. First, the wind storm did this to one of its customer's cars: <img s...

Well, nothing gets me used to the idea of returning to Oregon in the dead of winter than a storm in Cape Town! The Cape Doctor blew through with 40 mph winds and sideways rain this week. Knocked out some power, blew the water tank of my office's roof (onto our bench!), and knocked out the supports to a construction project next to our KwikSpar in Obs, sending the whole first floor toppling onto someone's car. It's calming down a bit today, thank God, but it's s...

Haven't updated in some time -- shame on me. But not a lot has been going on, to be honest! I'm at work right now and, having just eaten the remains of my super-burrito from Pancho's (YUM!), am considering running over to Woolworth's for some ice cream. Tomorrow is Halloween, and this whole week has been dedicated to figuring out my costume. Anyone who knows me knows how epically indecisive I can be if I set my mind to it, and so I've hopped between costumes o...

Oh, yet another weekend has passed (and another is due soon! Time is passing so quickly...) since I last updated. I'm feeling a bit under the weather, so I'll try to keep this post brief. I spent the whole weekend at the beach, which was wonderful, as the weather's really been getting nice. We went to Muizenberg on Saturday but never got around to surfing (the waves were too small to bother), so we just wandered the town a bit. It's a bit of a dying holiday...