tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-370796792011-08-06T23:56:46.492-07:00A look into a life otherwise unnoticed.Emilio Mejia Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11570660876856636432noreply@blogger.comBlogger331100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37079679.post-65725994326163907732010-02-24T00:41:00.002-07:002010-02-24T01:14:30.044-07:00

Okay, so I said in my last blog here that I was going to switch to Tumblr, and I did. I posted a few times there and it went well, but I think I've decided to switch back for a few reasons. First, I can't save drafts on Tumblr. I rarely finish a post in one sitting and Blogger allows me to save a draft to finish later. This very post was probably written in a few rounds. The experiment to post

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It's been two months since my last post, but it seems like a lifetime ago, so much has happened. I'm more than halfway done with the school semester, a fourth of the way through my last school year.I've worked most of the semester non-stop on short films of varying lengths and difficulties. Some have been more successful and/or fun than others. But I wouldn't trade the experience of any of them

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So, I'll start off with a shout out to the homie Geoff McCarthy since he gave me a mention in his own blog today.Well, jeeeezus. It's been too long since my last post. I have been wanting to sit down and write something for a long time, but I just can't seem to find the time to do it that in. Let's see what I can do to catch things up around here.I'm still working on editing a my film from

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My next post will be from California where I will be vacationing for the weekend at my sister's. Hopefully it'll be a fun time and I can come back relaxed and ready to get on the grind.Haha! That's how I closed my previous post. That was about a month and a half ago. I'm still in California. Times are tough, I won't lie. I'm pretty much homesick all day except for a few moments when we're having

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It's May, so you know what that means. School's over. Thankfully and mercifully over. It was a tough semester to say the least. Did I succeed? Depends what your definition of it is. My standards for academic success are pretty low, so that has an effect on my definition. That said, I did well in the classes that I worked hard in. The other classes I gave a half-ass effort and got a half-ass grade

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So I'm going to be up all night tonight. I have a couple of essays to write and an entire book to read. Since being up late isn't an issue, I thought I'd spend a few minutes and drop a few lines about my recent happenings.In my previous post I mentioned staying up to study for a French exam. I got a 96 percent. Très bien! I took another one last week, but I don't think I did as well on that one.

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It's about 1:30 AM right now and I can't sleep a wink. Which is strange since last night I only got about 5 hours of sleep because I was up all night studying for a French exam. I hope I did well. This has been an exciting and tiring week. Last Sunday I was a grip on a friend's capstone film. For those not in the ASU film program, a student's capstone is their thesis project in which they try to

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Wow. A lot sure has happened since the last post I wrote. The Fall semester ended and it couldn't have come any sooner than it did. I failed a couple of classes, but I actually did better in the other two than I expected. I think at least one of those is because my professor was retiring and he just didn't care what grades he gave out. I don't mind, it got me an A. Gus Edwards, you will be

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I am depressed right now. I've been trying to downplay it and cheer myself up, but there's no getting around it. This isn't an "I'm going to sit in my room in the dark and cry all day" type of depressed. I've just lost my sense of optimism. It's hard to wake up and face a new day this way. The little things that I used to hang on to that made me feel better aren't there anymore. The good times

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Nostalgia is a bitch. Every day at work I see a lot of families. Lately it has been bumming me out when I see small children that look up to their parents with a reverence and admiration that only children know how to achieve. It makes me long for the old days when I used to have the same feelings for my parents. Now, I'm not here to bash on my parents for the choices they've made or the actions

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I haven't written a post in a long time so I figured I needed to write SOMETHING down before I put it off for so long that I would no longer feel inclined to ever write.School has been back in session for about 3 months. I'm actually close to the end of the semester than the beginning so this post is long overdue. To say that I haven't been doing well in school this semester would be a gross

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Quite a lot has happened since my last post, but none of it has been particularly interesting. Or at least that’s what I think but that’s probably just because I’m the one that lived it first hand. I’ve worked on another film, started school, said goodbye to a friend, and started learning a new language.Soon after the interesting experience that was the 48-hour film festival I begun to work on

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Moving sucks. Last time I talked briefly about my thoughts after coming back home, but what is even more taxing and stressful is the physical side of it. We got an apartment on a second floor and it was a pain in the ass – literally and metaphorically – to move our furniture in. I’ve always had old creaky knees and back which bothered me during the move but the topper was the asthma attack I

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I really am not in the mood to write, but I had an interesting and revealing day, so I felt compelled to put it into words.I’ll start by catching up on recent events. I’ve been away from home for about two months now. I forget if I ever mentioned it to anybody except for a few close friends. To most people I say that I was away on vacation, but in truth I was away because I had no home for a

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Most everyone that has read this blog, and just about everyone I have come into contact with in the last year or two has known of my strong stance when it comes to religion. Because of that stance, I have gotten into argument with friends, family, and other acquaintances sometimes offending or hurting people. It becomes difficult for me to hide my opinions. Recently, I came across a post in a

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I really had no intention of writing an entry today, but something compelled me to. One of my older posts recently received a couple of replies. They were posted anonymously, but I have a feeling of who they may have come from. I'll start of by saying I'm sorry to that person. That person really went off on me and on the comments I made about pregnancy and babies. It troubles me to a great

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Procrastination is a bitch. I've been putting off writing anything for quite a while. And it's not even because I've been busy. I've been on vacation at my sister's in Los Angeles for nearly a month and I've done jack shit with that time. There was an infinite number of projects I could've put some time into, but instead I've slept into the afternoon and watched an assload of TV. But you

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Hello. This blog has been a long time coming, but I finally have the time to write it. And I only have the time because I'm writing as I watch the Suns game. My time has been so consumed lately with film after film after film, that I barely have time to sleep. I mean that almost literally. Over this past weekend, I was so busy with shooting not only my own project, but a couple of other

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Okay, this time I promise I'll cut back on all of the film talk. I know I'm the only one that's ever as excited about that stuff as I am. But you have to realize it's what I'm most passionate about in life. If I lose film and film-making, I'm lost. There's no Plan B. Luckily, there's other things I've been wanting to talk about but haven't gotten around to it.First thing's first. Babies.

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Wow. It's been quite a while since I've let this much time pass between posts. I really shouldn't do that because now I have enough content to write a book. I have been ridiculously busy the last couple of weeks. As I've mentioned for a while, I'm keeping busy planning my next short film. In the last couple of weeks especially, there have been a lot of steps made forward which means this is

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Hello. It's been longer than I expected between posts. I still don't know why I even write anything ever, but I think it's more for me than for anybody else. Still, I'd like to know it has an audience. It's like if I go and make movies that only I'm gonna watch. Not too cool.I am sitting here late Friday night/Saturday morning not really too sleepy. So I write to try to tire myself out on

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Chances are I'm writing this blog in two parts. I'm really sleepy and tired right now, but I wanted to get a train of thought going before hitting the sack.Exciting times are coming. I've semi-officially started pre-production of my new movie. I say semi-officially because I'm not even fully sure which project I'm going to be doing. I have it basically narrowed down to two, but which one

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Whew. I finally make time to write this. I was meaning to write this earlier in the week, but just didn't make the time. I actually wrote a bit of it, but my computer crashed before I was able to finish.First things first. I wanted to ask everyone who reads this for some help. If you remember the last post I mentioned that I'm going to be making a short film for my Film Production course at

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I'm very tired so I'll keep this entry short.Today was the first day back at school. I woke up sort of early, but I've been doing that all summer. Since early morning, it was hotter than a motherfucker outside. But again, I'm used to it. You don't live in Phoenix for 15+ years and not get used to it. It's hilarious seeing freshman and/or transfer students that aren't used to the heat walking

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Finally, the end of the summer is drawing to a close. Sadly, I can summarize the entirety of my summer with one word... wasted.I don't mean drunk, though I wish that was the entirety of my summer. It was only a small portion, though maybe that's a good thing. I had so much unused time, if I would've dedicated it all to drinking, I would be an alcoholic by now.I return to school in a week from

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Hi. I've been meaning to write sooner, but the lethargy just gets to me when I try to. I'll start by apologizing for my latest blogs. They've all recently had a very gloomy mood to them, most of them dealing with death or the futility of life. Not surprisingly, this has made my own thoughts of life and death come to the surface, as represented in my writing and demeanor.For starters, I spent

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Seems every time I feel compelled to write it is spurred by something that has been happening in my sleep, or with lack thereof. This time is no exception. I write this now without sleep since I wasn't able to sleep all night. Instead, I stayed up writing and playing online poker.Lately, I have been watching a lot of the TV show Six Feet Under. Before I get into much, let me just quickly

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Another month between blog posts. Correction, three weeks. I forgot I had a post at my Virb blog. Well, hello again everyone (all one of you... including myself).Last I blogged (there has to be a better word than that), I was feeling unsure about a rekindled relationship with an old flame. But a few days ago, I suddenly became sure of it all. I became sure I'm no longer interested. It's not

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Hello.It's nice to be back here. It's been a while since I've written a blog here, and this is the first one with any actual content other than to link to another blog. My previous blogging "history" is pretty much contained to the posts I made on my Myspace blog. But I figured there are only certain types of people that can be reached on a community like that, and over the last few months, I

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After a long hiatus, I've added another chapter to the production blog. It's still not caught up, but I don't think I'll catch up till the end of production.On another note, I'm considering migrating my everyday blog here to blogspot. I've been keeping it on my Myspace Blog but they have so many bugs all the time that I don't know if it's worth it. It gets much more exposure there, so more

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I posted another episode on the production blog. So far I'm up to when we started writing the script which is when the movie really stared to come together. I also recently redid my Myspace, which I am kinda proud of though it is nowhere near finished. I'm kinda hungry now, so I won't talk too much about me in this post, but I've got lots to say should I ever decide to sit and write it all. I

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I have started a production blog on Blogger.com to keep a written collection of the process of making the short film I am working on. You can find it here. Please feel free to comment there as I keep updating.

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First post...Not much of a blogger, but I thought, what the hell. I'm not good at putting my thoughts into writing. For some reason I feel that once they leave my head and go through pen or keyboard into writing, they've lost value somehow. But it's something that I seriously need to get in the hang of if I am ever going to get my many movie ideas out of my head, onto paper, and onto film (

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