Labor Day Weekend – Escape to Richmond (and writing)

This last long weekend was a great getaway.  We headed out about 4pm on Friday to visit our friend, Meriah who is a professor at Virginia Commonwealth University.  I’d forgotten how good it is to brainstorm with her.  I have a big script deadline set for tomorrow (September 2) and we were able to talk through a lot of problem areas.  Yay.   Although not directly writing related, I managed to get to watch L.A. Confidential.  I thought it was a great movie and with some awesome scripting and fabulous acting.  It’d set the audience up with certain expectations and then punish us for those assumptions.  I loved it.  And of course I spent the closing credits, lamenting my own inadequate skills. 

On the down side, Renee spent almost the entire weekend on the couch sniffling and coughing.  She’d been pretty ill with this flu for most of the week.  Unfortunately, I’m the one now with a scratchy throat and sniffling nose.  But in spite of that, we all stayed relatively on track and managed to really move forward on the writing front.  Of course, considering the availability of extra space and the recent damp, it was also the perfect opportunity to take out a little time late in the evening to do some fire spinning.  (Hopefully, pictures will be coming soon).  It also is/was N.R. Brown’s birthday and we had to celebrate with cake and icecream and presents.  I shall leave it to her to discuss those details. 

All in all, a great relaxing weekend.  AND being able to purchase gas at $3.38 a gallon and then coming home to see prices at $3.71 did not hurt our mood one bit either.