Friday trip to CIW

Friday was an early morning. we had to be at the prison in Chino at 8:30 for an interview with the warden, which took longer than we thought because Lieutenant Aaron was dealing with like three other camera crews...they were interesting individuals. the one guy was nice, i think he was from the prison up north. There was one crew though, that, i swear, I've seen some side burns in my day...but these had a mind of their own...they were absolutely baffling, and on top of which were accompanied by a ponytail. the only way this situation could have been any worse was if they had been on a woman. And the guy, who I'm assuming was their leader, was carrying this huge betacam (compensating...?), and tried to start up conversation with us by asking if we were in 24p...yada yada (it was just me and Olivia at this point). I think he had camera envy, and didn't know what to do with himself and was hurt that 2 girls had a better(but smaller) camera than he did. at this point, we had interviewed the warden, left for lunch, and come back, and we got into the auditorium about 20 minutes before everything started, only to find that the guy from up north stole the spot we scouted for my camera, so we just set it up next to him, and we still got the good audio hook-up, so that was cool. Everything was cool with running the camera and everything,(except that the tripod hated me), until my card ran out of time right in the middle of a choir song, and Olivia had the other two, so I had to dig for a tape, switch the camera to tape really fast, and then the computer drive filled up as I was downloading the last card, so I couldn't put it back in...it was a little stressful...I started sweating. I totally thought i was in trouble, and I'm not sure if the tape idea even worked, but hoepfully it's ok. I got to meet BOTH of the Manson girls...which was a trip and a half, and Betty (I guess we're friends now) came up and told me I was so cute AGAIN and wanted to ADOPT me...I didn't really know how to respond to that, i guess if my own parents ever get sick of me...?

Oh, and I got to meet Lindsey Wagner too...and to be honest I'm more of a Chevy girl, but it was still exciting.

all together it was a very cool day. long, but worth getting up at 7 for! It's like an adventure every time...very cool.