Today (Day 8) and yesterday have been amazingly relaxing, in stark contrast to most of our other days.

Thursday, we shot at the clinic where Russ' doctor works, and that went very smoothly. When they were close to wrapping, a group of us headed out with whatever equipment we could, and started to set up at Robin's home for the rest of the shoot.

We shot all of Larry Laverty's (Doc Anderson) scenes, and were planning to do a scene we missed last week with Laura (Courtney) and Matt (Royse). However, Laura had hurt her back the other day, and hasn't been to a doc or taken anything for it, so she was in severe pain and couldn't stay to do the shoot. Still, we didn't finish up until 4:00 am, and everyone was moaning about my decision to go to the school at 8:00 in the morning.

Daybreak came, and I was the first one up...so I started to load up all the equipment into Russ' truck. Since he and Mark were crashed in Robin's living room, that woke them up. Then I called Robin on her cell phone to wake her. We got out to the set at 9:00; imagine what would have happened if I had capitulated and let them have the 10 AM call time they were begging for!

She did show up for today's shoot at the school where Robin works, and she is at this very moment shooting at Russ's house. One of his bedrooms is doubling as hers. For most of the crew, it has been a day of sitting around and doing nothing...which as I said is very relaxing. The actors, Russ, and Robin, and our sound man, Richard, are the only ones allowed in the room. No, it's not a sex scene!

In any case, this was a much needed break.

Here's a few bonus photos for folks reading my blog here instead of on myspace.