No way!

Laser Portraits!

This makes me proud to be from Atlanta

Lyrics:

Obama on the left
McCain on the right
We can talk politics all night
And you can vote however you like
You can vote however you like, yeah

Democratic left
Republican right
November 4th we decide
And you can vote however you like
You can vote however you like, yeah

(McCain supporters)
McCain is the man
Fought for us in Vietnam
You know if anyone can
Help our country he can
Taxes droppin low
Dont you know oils gonna flow
Drill it low
I'll show our economy will grow

McCain's the best candidate
With Palin as his running mate
They'll fight for gun rights, pro life,
The conservative right
Our future is bright
Better economy in site
And all the world will feel our military might

(Obama supporters)
But McCain and Bush are real close right
They vote alike and keep it tight
Obama's new, he's younger too
The Middle Class he will help you
He'll bring a change, he's got the brains
McCain and Bush are just the same
You are to blame, Iraq's a shame
Four more years would be insane

Lower your Taxes - you know Obama Won't
PROTECT THE LOWER CLASS - You know McCain won't!
Have enough experience - you know that they don't
STOP GLOBAL WARMING - you know that you won't

I want Obama
FORGET OBAMA
Stick with McCain and you're going to have some drama
We need it
HE'LL BRING IT
He'll be it
YOU'LL SEE IT
We'll do it
GET TO IT
Let's move it
DO IT!

Obama on the left
McCain on the right
We can talk politics all night
And you can vote however you like
You can vote however you like, yeah

Democratic left
Republican right
November 4th we decide
And you can vote however you like, I said
You can vote however you like, yeah

I'm talking big pipe lines, and low gas prices
Below $2.00 that would be nice

But to do it right we gotta start today
Finding renewable ways that are here to stay

I want Obama
FORGET OBAMA,
Stick wit McCain you gone have some drama
MORE WAR IN IRAQ
Iran he will attack
CAN'T BRING OUR TROOPS BACK
We gotta vote Barack!

Obama on the left
McCain on the right
We can talk politics all night
And you can vote however you like, I said
You can vote however you like, yeah

Democratic left
Republican right
November 4th we decide
And you can vote however you like, I said
You can vote however you like, yeah

Teams I'm supporting this weekend

Texas against Oklahoma. The number 1 team has to go down.

Florida against LSU. This is a really tough one. I hate Florida...with a passion...and most of my dad's family went to LSU. The thing is, LSU is ranked #4 and Florida is ranked #11 so it's better for my team if Florida wins).

And then, of course, there is Georgia against Tennessee. After our horrible performance against Alabama, we absolutely have to win this one. Plus, Tennessee isn't even ranked. If we lose, it's all over...and I'll cry. And do a lot of tequila shots.

Winding Down

This week is just a lot of packing up and shoving things into deep dark corners to be lost until next year when we try to find them again and can't. I've spent a lot of time playing real life Tetris and trying to fit a lot of things into spaces that are way too small. We also helped out the Schlep guys this morning because half of their crew is hurt or sick. So, I've spent a lot of the morning lugging things around. Now, I'm headed over to do some paperwork. Hooray!

Lazy Sunday

Today I wandered down to the end of town to take a look at Bridal Veil Falls. It was only about a fifteen minute walk past the end of the business district, but I hadn't walked down there since my first year out here. It was such a beautiful day and when you get past Town Park, it gets so quiet and you really feel like you're in the middle of nowhere. There are a few houses and I saw one or two cars, but it's pretty uninhabited. I saw about a million chipmunks. They were very, very cute and chubby. The building at the top of the falls was once a power plant and is now a house. If you saw the movie The Prestige they did a really crazy shot running up the waterfall to this house. I can't imagine living up there. And, apparently, the people who live there have small children. What a weird place to grow up. From time to time, when it snows a lot, these people get completely stuck in their house. They did install some sort of zip line like escape chair to get out, but it just seems like a really odd place to live. I think it actually might be for sale. Can you blame them?

Last night was the annual Schlep Wedding. This is the fourth year in a row that the guy that runs the Schlep Crew, Timmy, has gotten married...to a woman. Timmy's gay and will not hire anyone to his crew sight unseen, therefore, he has this crew made up of amazingly good-looking 20 to 30 year old guys. The Schlep Wedding is always the best party of the year and this one didn't disappoint. It was a really good end to a very stressful week.

Now I'm off to our 10am Meeting...otherwise known and the Guiness Breakfast. (Yes, there is a bar here that opens at 10am).

There is a major communication gap in this festival and it completely messed me up this morning. As I walked over to breakfast at 8am, I got a phone call from one of the guys at the Conference Center. It went like this:

Him: I'm sorry to bother you so early, but I just got here and I'm a little concerned that no one is here yet.
Me: Confused pause
Him: You know you need to be completely cleared out of here by 11am, right?
Me: No, I didn't know that.
Him: Well, your boss knew.
Me: Well he didn't tell me.

So, I go to breakfast completely annoyed, scarf down a bagel, tell the guy who distributes the labor pool that I need a ton of people and run to the Gondola to head up the mountain. We were completely cleared out at 10:53am. The wonderfully helpful Tami and I carried 1500 pounds worth of sandbags up a staircase and into the booth where they get stored in about 20 minutes. It was an incredibly crazy few hours and I was so exhausted when we were done. This all could have been avoided with just a phone call from my boss or someone at the Conference Center, where I've been working all week, saying, "by the way, did you know you need to be out of here by 11am on Friday?" I'm not quite sure where the communication breakdown occurred, but it made my morning pretty hellish.

In other news, tonight is the biggest party of the film festival year so all of this will be forgotten very soon!