In the Country

Well, here we are back in Mooresville, NC and it's another hot one. Yikes. I can feel the heat permeating up through my shoes. It almost feels as though my feet are on fire. As if it's not bad enough, but we had to do process trailer work. For those of you not familiar with this, a process trailer is a device that allows us to put a car on the back of a trailer and drive the car with actors and cameras in it around. It is typically how driving car work is done these days as the trailer is big enough to put cameras on the outside of the car as well as lights. Whenever we do process trailer work, I get the privilege of riding on the back of the big diesel truck that tows the trailer around. The back of the truck is not your normal truck as it is equipped with metal bars, monitors and harnesses to strap its riders in and also has a lower flat bed aspect where additional lights or equipment as well as people can ride. My spot is always on a bench in front of the monitors where I get to ride backwards facing the car in tow. So in addition to the already hot day, I find myself sitting on a metal bench with my back up against a hot generator and myself encompassed in a black wrap that blankets the monitors. Oh boy is this fun.

Meanwhile, most of the crew gets to sit around the work trucks while we are off shooting on the process trailer. While some took this time to clean out their trucks, I found that other took the time to play games and do a little gambling. I haven't quite figured out the game they were playing or how you win, but from the cheers as we drove in on the process trailer, I guessed it was lots of fun. They couldn't possibly have been cheering at the site of the process trailer for that certainly meant they had to go back to work. It did manage to get so incredibly hot on the process trailer that even my iPhone had decided it had had enough and was done working. Yep, I had heard rumors of the rare iPhone temperature warning, but today was the first time I experienced it first-hand myself. When we stopped and I was able to get off the process trailer, it took a good 5 minutes of me holding my iPhone in front of an air conditioner for it to stop the warning and turn on. Wowzers! That was hot!

Thankfully, the process trailer work was short-lived and we moved on to the rest of work on the side of a road. Even better. Now we just get to stand on the hot pavement the rest of the day. And boy was it a long day. My drive in this morning was pleasant enough as I was able to see the sun rise over the countryside as I pulled into crew parking. It really was lovely and quaint. We parked and had lunch on this farm and it was a very pleasant place to be. I can always see why people like this lifestyle. My ride home was not quite as pleasant. The sun was going down as I pulled out of crew parking, already making for a very long day. And now I had an hour long drive ahead of me. Great. I talked to Marshall for part of the ride which was a relief as I was starting to doze on my way home. I hardly made it up to my apartment awake. I could have easily just fallen asleep but the stickiness of the day had to be washed off first. The only upside to days like this is I have no problem sleeping. Sleep is still something that I struggle with. I'm not sure why but I have a hard time falling asleep before midnight, making days when I have to be at work before the sun, very long days. Tonight, however, I don't suspect I will have that problem. The sun and long hours have worn me down and sleep will be my friend again tonight.