Any Day Now

Well, it's been a busy few weeks. As I mentioned last time, my second child is due very soon. I actually thought I might already have him by the time I wrote this post. For various medical reasons, I will probably have the baby in the next few days, so we're now just waiting for his arrival. It's all very exciting. The past two weeks have been busy getting everything in order, packing our bags for the hospital, going to doctor's appointments, etc.

It's also been the final few weeks for me to take care of work before I take a few weeks off. Just barely in time, my partner and I received the first draft of the script on one of our projects. The writer has done a fantastic job. We've spent the last week reading and doing notes, then we had a series of 3 marathon notes sessions, both alone and with the writer. These lasted about 8 hours each day, but they were such productive meetings. We've finally sent the writer off to work on the second draft of the script. He'll have a few weeks of work before giving it back to us for another round of notes. You never know what to expect when the first draft comes in. Sometimes there's so much work to be done, it's impossible to know where to start. Other times, the writer gives you so much to work with, it's a pleasure to jump in and make those changes necessary to make it a movie. Although time consuming, it's been a fantastic process on this one.

We're continuing with the usual on our other projects--checking in with writers who are working, meeting with studio executives, looking for writers on a new project, among many other things that I won't get into here.

At home, my two year old daughter is so excited to become a big sister. We've been busy trying to get her registered for preschool next fall and putting together Valentine's cards for her class. Our dog, a boxer named Winston, is wondering what's going on, but he's a good sport about the whole thing.

I'm keeping this short, as there are quite a few things to do as we get ready to potentially have our baby tomorrow. I'm actually jumping on a conference call for work right now before finishing up everything else.

More soon...