Wednesday, May 19: Anne-ified.

What a day.

This morning my alarm went off, but half-assedly. The actual  ENH ENH ENH ENH (pardon my terrible interpretation of the worst sound in the world) was so quiet I could barely hear it. My internal clock woke me up at 6:43 am, and good thing.

I got to work this morning and received a temporary computer! Unfortunately, I wasn't set up on the network yet so I couldn't use it, but A TEMPORARY COMPUTER! Hopefully tomorrow I'll be away to the races!

I drove to Cavendish today to do a little bit of Anne/Maud research. The lovely people who work at the LMMNHS showed me upstairs in the office, where they had tons of information about Lucy Maud Montgomery and Anne Shirley. I can quite honestly say that yes, I was an Anne hater. I haven't read the books, but the whole "coming from PEI and having red hair" thing was enough for almost everyone to call me Carrots or Anne. I was done with her before I even knew her. In fact, that's an idea for a pitch I'll be making. Hopefully they let me do it.

After reading some of Maud's old scrapbooks, I started to really get into her own personal story. The girl was asked to marry 12 times! I feel lucky that I was asked once, LMM was HOT! I found out a lot of interesting bits of info about her that I had no idea, and got very carried away with reading. I had to return the company car for 2, so I returned to Dalvay.

Much of the afternoon was spent trying to write a formal pitch for the Anne piece. Unfortunately, I was having an "I'll never pull any of this off, who were they kidding in hiring me" kind of day. I think that I really fed off the enthusiasm of my peers in Banff, and I've gotta keep reminding myself that I can do it on my own. I got what I call "cubicle head" (cabin fever, if you may) at around 3. One of the amazing aspects of having this job and working out in Dalvay is that I could leave the compound, walk 2 minutes and be at the beach. I took a little stroll, found a flat rock and tried to relax and let the ideas come to me. It did work, I calmed down and reminded myself that one afternoon of self doubt didn't mean anything.

Photo of the day: Me trying to fight my way through said self-doubt sitting in one of the more beautiful places on the whole island. If that doesn't inspire me, nothing will.

I finished work, grabbed a terrible meal at Pat and Willy's with Jacob, and came home. I am going to try out the waterproof camera case in the tub tonight to make sure it is actually waterproof. We don't need anything else going wrong with the camera.