I'm Coming Out (Of Isolation)

 Took another lateral flow test - negative result as predicted. I deemed it ok to leave my mancave for the day and camp out in the living room instead for a change... But first, I had to clean up any remnant of my squalid lifestyle. Burnt through every mug, bowl and plate in the house it felt like so a good portion of the morning was spent washing it all up and packing down the sofa-bed. Feel a lot more human now, though I did feel myself becoming almost overstimulated by the world beyond my four walls. Around midday my eyes were tired and my brain became ratty so I rested in a dark room for a spell. Felt right as rain afterwards, just gotta take it easy when I'm back at work tomorrow. Wonder what the day will have in store for me.

Breaking Quarantine

Balenced my petty cash invoices and upgraded our iPad storage, all in a day's work while working from home. Technically speaking I broke my isolation for but a moment as I dashed out in the dark, dead of the evening to my car to grab something and nip back again. I didn't see a soul on my adventure so no-one was ever at threat, but it was so gratifying to feel the cool, fresh air on my face again... If only for 15 seconds. 

Some of my work colleagues called me up on a video chat to check on me. They kept saying how much they missed me and how I'm a core member of the filming family... Funnily enough this wasn't even my department lavishing me with love and attention. The AD team really have adopted me, and I couldn't be happier about that.

Miss Americana

 Though I'm still in solitary confinement, Rebecca and I have still dreamed up of little ways to spend time together. I tuned in to watch Netflix's Taylor Swift documentary with Rebecca, I wrote it off last year as a self-aggrandizing short-term biopic, at least, that was my thoughts before having seen it. In reality, it does a lot of flag bearing for her, but it does at least begin to peek under the hood of how she's a victim and benefactor of fame. It didn't really want to get its hands dirty though so we only get a glimpse of these things followed by a lot of fan-pleasing recording session clips. At the end of the day, it's a documentary for the fans, for better and for worse.

Some distaced board games were played on my landing too. Rebecca had to move ally pieces but we still got some good matches in of some of our favorites. More than anything, it just whetted my appetite for some real board game nights with friend and family. Just so ready to leave this room now.

The Last Duel

 Rebecca tapped on my door, wakinge up just in time to catch my eyebrows hit the ceiling as I realized I slept in until 10am. Felt like a normal day rather than a weekend being locked in the same room. Rebecca got to go out and enjoy the outside thankfully, she told me all about it and I listened with child-like wonder in my eyes.

We've also recently been watching some things together over video chats, we both press the play button on a movie at the same time and keep our microphones on so we can catch each other's witty banter. A mid day movie was the perfect thing to do in Lockdown and The Last Duel satisfied a lot of criteria to earn the favour of both Rebecca and myself. It's writing and attention to structure was its most praiseworthy quality, it juggles a lot of balls and manages to keep them all airborne while keeping you constantly invested in the fate of the characters. Only Ridley Scott can make chain-mail look this good and a lot of attention to detail brought Medieval France to life - it was almost a shame I watched it on a laptop. Solid film all round, if you peek under the hood you'll admire its craft all the more.

End of Contract

A mammoth bit of data logging stood between me and my weekend. I was asked to use a spreadsheet from accounts to figure out all the companies who have raised invoices through us and log all the names and addresses of those places in a separate document. Long? Yes. Tedious? Yes. Soul Crushing? A thousand times yes. It's one of those things that's kinda meant to be spread across the entire filming job, but now that everything is getting a bit last minute we're scrambling to get it all ready to hand in before the end date. Speaking of, my contract with this job technically expired after today, no word on if they want to keep me on or not. Still got the car so I reckon I'm still on the payroll? Let's see what happens next week and go from there. Some of my colleagues are already planning an informal get together after the non-day everyone had yesterday. Very much llooking forward to saying goodbye properly.

No More Blue Unit... I Guess

Unceremoniously, at about 3pm, my filming unit were told that today was the last day they'd be filming. So... That's a wrap, I guess? Though I was at home, the nervous tension was palpable through the messages I got through all day. Still a lot of unanswered questions and curious decisions being made behind the scenes, but I was too busy coordinating a pizza and doughnut order our director wanted to arrange (fairly last minute) for the crew. With any luck I'll be able to see my team again one last time before the job is all done and dusted, there was no 'last hurrah' so we'll no doubt arrange our own little shindig.

Health wise, I'm doing better today. The naffness has migrated towards my head and ears mostly, throwing me off balence and simulating the torturous feeling of tinitus all day. It's my muscles thoigh that are proving to be in the most pain, purely due to misuse. I had to ask Rebecca if it'd be ok to go up and down the stairs a bunch of times to get them back into the swing of things. Might make a habit of doing that a lot more over the coming days.

With or Without Me

Still here in my little room, beavering away at some small jobs work has passed onto me. Our last day of filming is tomorrow and one of my group chats very sweetly pointed out that it's all going to fall apart without me on the day. Very flattered, but they'll be just fine without me, though I have a hunch the printer will break down almost immediately for them - good thing I said I could be on call for the day. 

Feeling a little more chipper today overall, think I've broken through the heart of the illness now so it's just a long road towards the sunlight.