Friday 09th 2004f July 2004
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Yeah, so I’m going to leave. I’m going to head back to Dublin at the end of the month. Anybody know a good place online for cheap flights?
I’m looking at this as a retreat to regroup rather than an abandonment. New York is better than Dublin, but Dublin is where I have to be at the moment. Basically, as I see it, the only way for me to have any chance of remaining here is to focus on sound editing – something I stopped doing a few months ago. Trying to be a writer here from scratch is too hard! I’ll go back to Dublin, where I can live with my parents for a little while and be in touch with people who work in the film business and know me – something I don’t have here.
This may be wrongheaded of me – it’s hard to tell. Am I a fool to want to be a writer rather than a sound editor? Well, yes, obviously. But I have to try for a little while. New York is a really bad place to try and switch careers when you’re not established anyway. But I would probably never even have tried the change if I hadn’t come here, so it’s all to the good.
So, now I have to focus on doing a bunch of stuff I haven’t gotten around to yet for the first time, doing another bunch of stuff for the last time, and fretting about packing.
And just to show that I’m serious: I’ve actually been offered a job doing sound on a low budget feature that would pay just enough (with some NYFA teaching hours) to keep me here another month, but I’m still not staying. My decision to leave is motivated by more than total lack of funds! The lack of funds is fairly total, though… These next few weeks will be disappointingly quiet, I fear.
I am a little worried about my Green Card – I’m all legal and everything, but the stamp in my passport (which is only supposed to tide you over until your physical Green Card gets to you) expires October 6th, and no sign of the card yet. Apparently, what with new Homeland Security regulations, it frequently takes a year or more to appear.
This will only be a problem if I decide I want to re-enter the States sometime between the expiry of the stamp and the delivery of the Card. What are the chances of that?
Of course, there is Julian and Lisa’s wedding in Vegas on October 24th. D’oh!
Hopefully this won’t be an issue – maybe the consul in Dublin can renew my stamp. Damn you, elephantine bureaucracy!
Oh, and I’ve seen and reviewed Fahrenheit 9/11 and Spiderman 2.
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At 9:18 pm on Friday 09th 2004f July 2004, Babs postedGod bless the do-over. Least you’re going back to a sane place. Leaving NYC is the easy bit. It’s coming back that’s the pain in the ass. No matter where your coming from. Rather sucks that you’ve got to go, mind. But I totally get the ‘regroup’ thing.
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At 7:26 am on Saturday 10th 2004f July 2004, Nigel discoursedOf course this also means you can wash your hands of the obligation to organise the In The Dark Party now. As a matter of fact, you ought to be prohibited from havign any role in it.
Sorry to hear you’re coming back. I’d definitely concentrate on getting that card sorted out for the future. If you can’t return can I have it? People do get us confused anyway!