Fraturday

Yet another Friday night that ends in a Fraturday. For those of you with normal hours that don't know what a Fraturday is its where you go to work on Friday and don't get off until sometime in the wee hours of Saturday thus making your Friday a Fraturday. The worst part about Fraturdays is that often following a Fraturday work day we have to then be back to work bright and early on Monday, thus eliminating any type of weekend we may have otherwise had. This weekend will be no exception to this rule. We worked until the wee hours of the morning Saturday and have to be back at work on Monday morning at 7am. Bye bye weekend. Unfortunately, this often becomes the life when working on a television series. If only the writers knew what they were doing to us I'm sure they would stop writing nighttime exterior scenes! Seriously, make all nighttime scenes inside so we can shoot them when it's daylight outside because nobody will ever know.

So, here we were again filming downtown with our kid actors. The only saving grace was that since they were both minors they had to be wrapped by 2am. Now this didn't mean we were done by 2 since we had photo doubles we could use once the kids were wrapped. Fortunately, we only had 2 more shots after Morgan and Timothy went home so we weren't there terribly late. Since the kids didn't work until it got dark, they had gone to see The Dark Knight Rises this afternoon and said it was awesome. Morgan informed me that I have to go see it this weekend so we can talk about it because she really, really liked it and wanted someone to talk to about it. Well, I just may do that. At least if I had to be working until 3am, I was working with one of my favorite actresses on the show. I really do love that kid. She is so talented, yet such a genuine person. We spent some time while they were setting up the shot to just chat and gossip about upcoming episodes and what she knows about her character for the upcoming episodes. She always knows I know more than she does so she tries to get me to spill the beans to her. I never really understood why exactly, but for some reason actors are always the last ones to find out what the upcoming episodes entail. I guess the writers don't want to hear from them until the draft is an official production draft, but I don't see the harm in letting them know the overall general story points.

By the time Morgan and Timothy were wrapped, I too was ready to go. It was late and we no longer had any actors and I was ready for bed. And then my phone started going off. Morgan was home now and texting me to tell me goodnight. She's such a doll. Tomorrow she leaves for a whirlwind trip to NY to do a photo shoot for a magazine and I think she's just a wee bit excited. I'm sure it will be an awesome experience for her and I can't wait to hear about it. Tonight Morgan also found out I'm pregnant again and was so excited for the news. I had to be the voice of reason and remind her it was still really, really early so let's just cross our fingers and hope that it all turns out well. She informed me (as so many other have too) that she just knew it was going to have a good outcome this time. I hope she's right. I hope everyone's right. I can't believe I have to wait until Aug 28th to find out if everything is okay. That's very far from now and it's hard to really get excited until I know that everything is progressing normally right now. First trimesters of any pregnancy are always hit or miss, but after losing a baby I feel an even greater sense of trepidation. I want to tell everyone but at the same time I want to keep it a secret. It's a strange paradox to be in. Most people are over the moon excited when they learn they are pregnant and often don't have a second thought about it. Those people haven't lost a baby. They haven't miscarried and they certainly didn't have a stillborn baby. I just pray that this pregnancy is a healthy and normal one so that I can get to experience the excitement of pregnancy again and ultimately the excitement of a healthy newborn baby.