6/19 Whitehouse

So I woke up unable to move this morning and my darling flat mates would not let me leave to go to the first meeting. I guess it’s time I come to terms with the fact that I am really sick. Boo. I headed to the free clinic in Noho or wherever I was and sat for almost four hours until a nurse finally saw me. She made me cough a few times and told me I should put my head over a pot of hot water and breathe in the steam. And she also said she wasn’t going to give me any antibiotics. Wow.

Feeling slightly better I made my way over to the afternoon visit at Whitehouse, where John Smith talked to us. He said the bread and butter of his company is editing commercials, but he is known for his work editing Leaving Las Vegas and Sliding Doors. He showed us a bunch of different clips that he had edited and the different versions he came up with from the footage. He told us that with al the new technology today, there are often too many versions to choose from; we are constantly changing our minds. When the process was slower the work was more intentional. I like doing things by hand and it does slow me down but I like this feeling, so I completely understood where he was coming from. I coughed through the whole meeting, which was pretty embarrassing but oh well, apparently I just need to put my head over a pot and I will be cured!