Has it been 4 months already?

It's been one of those summers (spring/summers?).  So, I'm still on the job hunt.  Since last I blogged, I worked for 9 days and did a curling music video.  It wasn't union, but it was still pretty legit (apparently, they showed it at the Playboy mansion).  I also curled in the Hollywood Blockbuster Bomspiel (see it's sorta movie/writing/pop culture related).  I curled one of the best games of my life against a team from Scotland and ended up losing on the last stone (I'm actually happy and not bitter).
But, back to the task at hand.  So, I hadn't been reading much in the way of scripts nor had I been writing much.  Although having been inspired by Cutaway, I "cutaway" the majority of DVD and book library.  Lean and mean, that's what I'm going for.  I also realized that writing (or the lottery, fingers crossed) might be the only way I can get out of the massive debt load I'm under (I mean I guess there's always the possibility that someone would hire me to do actual law work, but I'm not sure that would allow me curling schedule I aspire for).  I also cancelled my cable and am contemplating cancelling the internet.  Not that the internet is all that expensive, it's just kinda distracting and I have an iPhone, so I'll still be able to blog and tweet and email and stuff.
So, I'm back on the horse.  I wrote for 2 pomodoros today and spent another 2 finishing up reading the thing I have been plugging away at for months now: a transcript of the story meeting between George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and Lawrence Kazdan for Raiders of the Lost Ark.  It's like 120 pages long.  I'm not sure how far along Lucas is in the process, but it feels like he's given it more thought than the others, but it's still really raw.  The two big things I got out of reading it was:
1)Your first idea is rarely the best:  In this case it took them about 5 pages to realize that the Nazi should have a part of the amulet burned on his hand instead of there being an out and out miscalculation.  they went through such ideas as mistranslation and not factoring in the change of the Earths orbit/tilt.  None as good as what they ended up with.
2)Just because you don't use it here, doesn't mean you won't use it:  There are two sequences that they initially talk about in this meeting that both appear in Temple of Doom.  They're both great sequences (most of the opening through the boat going down the mountain and the mine cars through the tunnels) and I'm glad they didn't just chuck them. They kept them around and used them in the sequel and I think they actually work better there).