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August 2nd marked a highlight for me. After 8 weeks of an intensive advanced Motion Picture class, our film shorts showed that night. All the sleepless nights, and missing meals, and agonizing over details finally paid off.

We showed ours with 7 other films that night. They were all great, but I loved how well ours turned out. Seeing it in HD (the first time the RVC hosted in HD on a giant projector) and then having the audience of maybe 60-70 people around watching too, it was marvelous. There is one scene in the movie, as a character walks down a flight of stairs that I just get chills. It was really awesome to see our film that Jake Perry, Aaron Markey, Josh White and me all worked on and slaved over and turned into something great. Our professor said it was beautiful; some alumni told us afterwards that they thought we should enter it into a film festival! How awesome is that? We are going to enter it in, after cleaning some stuff up in the next few months.

I'm really grateful for these friends I've found through this class. Most of them are all very hardworking individuals, and we all love video games and geek out over computer hardware and camera stuff. Its a group of people I'm going to try and stay in touch with and work with in the future; I'm going to miss this program once I'm finished with RVC in the spring. I've had the best teachers to date, and the best classroom group experience to date with this bunch of people.

Another highlight of thursday was that a certain cute blonde-headed brown eyed girl came to see me. She skipped her important grad class just to drive 2 hours after she got off working a 6 or 8 hour day to come and surprise me at the screening and watch it with me. What a woman; an amazing precious woman. A real gem, and example of what other men should look for in a woman, because she is simply awesome. The sweetest, kindest, ornery, beautiful, caring, friendly girl who loves Jesus. I am blessed, and don't feel particularly worthy of her, but I'm thankful that she's in my life.