2013 year in review

CAREER

Followed the best year of my life career-wise and financially with a pretty good year.  Got to work on a variety of shows for a variety of networks, all of which I’m very proud…  This year I  finished up Gypsy Sisters for TLC, then Gigolos season 4 for Showtime, and Catfish: The TV Show season 2 for MTV, and finally back to Gigolos to crush season 5, making it the longest running show my company has created and a great personal success as well.  By the time I am done with my three episodes this season, I will have cut 15 episodes of Gigolos and had broadcast credit as editor on 50 episodes of television!

I did take some time off during the year to work on my first feature as editor, a documentary called "The Vagine Regime: Queer Roller Derby."  It's still shooting through March and has a lot of work left to do, but I've had a great time working on it and I think it's really something special.  In the meantime, the low-budget horror movie I PA'd on last year was screened and I fulfilled a childhood dream of seeing my name on the big screen.

I maxed out my Roth IRA again, even though I barely made any money on it this year.  And I hope to do the same next year.

I voted on the Emmy awards again this year, though I was too busy to vote in as many categories as I wanted to.

PERSONAL

Still living with Chelsea, we’ve been together for 52 months now and our nub continues to grow.  I still love her and our life together will all my heart!

For the first time ever, I had a piece in a real art show--twice!  And both of them sold for great causes.

I went to 13 concerts, including Jazz Fest in New Orleans, Electric 6, Charles Bradley, Cindy Lauper at the Greek, and Wayne Shorter with Esperanza Spalding and the LA Phil!  I met Weird Al for the second time, as well as meeting Jon Voight, Eric McCormick (who bought a painting from me), Lori Petty, Lloyd Kaufman, Pete & Pete, Paul Scheer, Tony Todd, John Romita Jr, Whilce Portacio, Jane Espenson, and many more.  

I've been running again and I'm getting ready to do another marathon in 2014, though I haven't decided which.  In the meantime, I came in 3rd place in my division at a local 5k, and 10th place overall, both firsts for me.  I ran a 6:27 mile, my fastest ever.

A lot of great trips this year, we spent Memorial Day in Savannah for 10 year college get-together and we took over an awesome house downtown.  Of course we did Jazz Fest in New Orleans, which was a TOTAL BLAST!  We went to Atlanta and Seattle to see family, also San Francisco for a wedding.  Chelsea and I had a wonderful fourth anniversary in Napa Valley.  We ate at two of the top ten most expensive restaurants in America, and they were meals I will always remember.

JAN 1, 2013 WEIGHT:  180

JAN 1, 2014 WEIGHT: 190

I still think I could be a solid 170 or so someday, if I was real lean.  I need to try harder to work in cross training and not eat so much shit.

RESOLUTIONS FOR 2013

1) Be really serious about fitness.  I want to be in the best shape of my life.

2) Go to a foreign country.

3) Write a good script.

4) Write and begin to draw a comic book.

5) Buy a new car.

6) Cut a feature.

7) Pay off my student loans.

8) Continue learning to use more graphics in editing.  Use AfterEffects.

9) Love Chelsea like she’s never been loved before.  And then love her some more.

10) Continue being awesome.

RESOLUTIONS FOR 2014

1) Go to a foreign country.

2) Finish cutting a feature.

3) A secret resolution that I will not tell you.

4) Get a piece in another art show.

5) Be really serious about fitness.  I want to be in the best shape of my life.

6) Write a good script.

7) Pay off my student loans.

8) Continue learning to use more graphics in editing.  Use AfterEffects.

9) Love Chelsea like she’s never been loved before.  And then love her some more.

10) Continue being awesome.

I know, I gotta believe!