this being latin america and neither a shakespearean tragedy nor the middle of the month, I shrugged her silly comment off.
oh that I would have listened to her message of doom, because I was not prepared for today.
the morning started off fine enough. we put on a good meeting and I successfully performed all of my required duties. (see image to the right of our awesome stage set-up)i was then assigned to follow a group to hike through the rain forest.
the only caveat was that my boss didn't want me to be off site for the entire tour.
he suggested that I request a ride back on the bus after getting the desired shots.
unfortunately, for safety's sake, the bus had to remain at the tour site, in case emergency transport was needed.
i relayed this to my boss and he asked me to follow up to see if I could get a driver to take me out in a chase vehicle.
this took some doing and about a half hour before the tour was to leave, we got the cost estimate in.
$400 smackaroos.
my boss, eager to keep costs down, declined this option and then said, "let's see if we can get the loaner SUV that the company has on site for you to follow behind them."
what I understood that to mean was that he would locate the vehicle for me since he was in the staging office and I was at the front entry way.
i was wrong.
i waited until all the sales reps were on the bus and called my boss back.
"just checking on the status of the SUV." I said.
"you were supposed to get that." He replied.
"sh*t. I am SO sorry." Was my response.
what else could I say?
...
and that was only the beginning.
i'll give you the bullet points
- mucho difficulty uploading meeting video files, including accidental unplugging and battery death while uploading, then a copy-status window that read 5-minutes remaining for over 20 minutes.
- manager stress at the spa where I was shooting walk-ins and -outs, because when you have a camcorder and you're hanging outside a spa and you look like me, you tend to get people asking you to get the heck away.
- a near-missed second video shoot at the beach. (I was told that the ferry went out every half-hour. And I arrived 12 minutes after the last one had left.)
- last minute background music request with none of the appropriate music loaded to my ipod.
and now it's 1am and i'm sitting at a hotel bar with three vodka and cranberries in me trying to get the adrenalin to slow down.
and a 7am call for tomorrow morning.
on the plus side, my boss thanked me for all my hard work before he turned in for the night.
i talked to my mom earlier tonight and she asked if I was getting to enjoy any personal time on this trip.
i told her that it was all about perspective.
i'm working in puerto rico eyeing a bevy of attractive latin women while generally running around and doing non-office related work.
it's not MY vacation but it sure beats dayton.
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Updated:
I just realized that I'm at a bar in Puerto rico and I'm drinking alone updating my blog.
My two readers better enjoy my dedication to this stupid thing.
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