Acting Without the Drama

July 18, 2009.  So, after days and days of going and going and going, I’m beat.  But I realized today that me being beat was less about a physical state and more about an emotional one.

My business partner and I had a significant break-down of communication today.  Feelings were hurt on both sides.  Tensions were running a bit high.  Then, I unconsciously lashed out in a moment of fear and frustration.

It stirred up a whole hornet’s nest of trouble for both of us.  She later referred to it as the “perfect storm.”  The worst possible confluence of events designed to completely derail us.

Because, if I haven’t mentioned it lately, we’re going to Comic-con this next week.  Important people will be viewing our work.  We may have the opportunity to meet with some influencial personalities in the industry.

In addition to that, this week or next looks like the time frame for the book deal to go through.  Once that happens, it could open a lot of doors for us, and rather quickly at that.

As if that weren’t enough, we just found out that we may have an opportunity to get one of our short films viewed by the top horror magazine in the world, and also at a couple of very prestigious film festivals.

Any wonder that we took that moment to completely lose our minds?

But, okay, here’s the thing:  we didn’t.  At least not completely.  After one of the worst rifts we’ve had in over a year, we sat down and talked it through.  There was a bit of fussiness at first, but only a bit.  There were certainly tender feelings, but we were pretty careful with each other.  Within a relatively short period of time, we were connected once more.

And that’s with us both being emotionally bushwacked right now.

The fritz sucked, don’t get me wrong.  I don’t want to go back to that particular place again, but I’m almost glad that we did.  It gave us a chance to understand each other better and to realize that, once more, we would figure it out.

And now, to bed.  Physically and emotionally. 

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