Day two of production is over and in just a few hours we’ll do it all over again! It’s just coming up to 3:30am, which means that I have been up for 20 hours straight. (Cooking’s all fine and dandy. It’s the dishes that break you.) I’m dead on my feet but feeling pretty proud of myself. There were no huge hitches on set today, at least not in terms of food. Just after dinner we decided to embrace going slightly over budget because we ran out of snacks to keep people trucking along in between meals. But lucky for us, because of the generosity of the University and the frugality (and luck) of other departments in the production, we had a little leeway. So even that doesn’t really count as an official hitch. Tomorrow (though really, later today) should be a lot of fun because I did most of the necessary prep work today. Which means I’ll be able to step out of the kitchen and assist in the production! After the evening snacks were looked after I got to take a break (my first and only all day) and watch the goings-on. Once the Tylenol kicked in (oh man were my legs aching away), it was all pretty amazing. Everyone was doing something! Even those of us who were able to take it easy were watching and learning and pitching in to create and maintain the awesome creative vibe in the room.
I hope to spend a great deal more time in that space for the rest of the production.
Cross my fingers!
Bonne nuit-
Chef Wil