hello again.

So, it's been a while since I've written, and I apologize.

The weeks have passed in a blur. The job is better now.

I'm learning a lot, and I'd like to think I'd settled in, but I feel there is still so much to learn at the studio. How can I explain what I do without the technical jargon? Remember making dioramas for school? Like for a book you've read? You take a scene, and you display it in a shoebox with a background and tiny props and tiny people. I guess what I do, is that I make a diorama on the computer.

For each shot, I grab a background, the props, the characters, and I put them all on the screen. And I do that for each shot in the episode. It's a lot of shots.

I also do something like script supervising. For each shot, I put what lines were said and what sounds were heard for that shot.

I also get lunches and dinners for director, editors, producers, and animators.

I also fill the vending machine with tasty snacks.

I'm happy to be working, in other words, I'm happy that I'm making money. Not a lot of it, but it's better than minimum wage, I get to wear casual clothes to the office, and the people are pretty nice and funny.

And just Friday night, one of the studio execs invited me out to dinner with some other co-workers, which was an extremely nice gesture. She said we could order whatever we want and even have a drink. She paid with the company card. That was cool.

So that's life, pretty much. Not extremely exciting, but I'm working/making money, so I'll take it.