dim sum diaries

Maybe I'm too superstitious, but yesterday karma paid me back for the good deed I did on Tuesday. Buried under a bunch of files, I found a long synopsis for A Close Shave that I must have written months ago. I had forgotten about it, but it saved me about 2 hours of work. I punched up the document and sent it off to my agent, which cleared the rest of the day to pitch CBC radio ideas. I just heard from the producer this morning that he received them and was going to take a couple of days to think them over (for those of you familiar with the business, that means he doesn't like the pitches and is trying to find the nice way of saying no). However, I'm happy to get the rejection next week, so that I have enough time to brainstorm other radio play ideas.

Today is my first presentation at the teachers' convention, but tomorrow is the big day... a keynote in the morning! I'm mostly ready for the keynote, but I wanted to do another pass on the script to make sure I'm not repeating myself. I really should have prepared some slides or something, but I guess that would defeat the purpose of the keynote, which is that stories matter. I'd be a bit of a hypocrite if I started flashing cool images to hold the audience's attention.

Okay, got to prep today's session.