Today's...Monday?

I could have gone to bed earlier and woken up a lot earlier. But I didn't. And so I suffered.

Flyers. flyers. flyers.
booklets booklets booklets booklets booklets
emails
tickets

That was my day today. Plus lots of driving. Which isn't good for someone who loathes driving, like me. Lots of reverses, a couple of u-turns, etc. But I'm able to get around with no navigation system, I'm proud to say. Though my friend Komal is someone I frequently call to get addresses or directions, so that's kind of cheating. Anyway, later, it was cool to go to Dearborn (for flyering purposes) - I haven't been there in a few months and it was nice to see some of the places and roads I used to haunt in the past. The place still seems very familiar to me.

Anyway, today was all about booklets and flyers. Thank you United Sonz, our printing company, for dealing with all our emails and frantic phone calls. These poor guys got so confused because we have multiple orders going at once, and all are last minute. But they are really great, and very patient with a realll quick turnaround time.

I wanna also give a HUGE THANK YOU to our designer Namira who has put up with all our requests and changes. Thanks Namz for helping us out and doing such an amazing job. Many people have said they like what you've done. Namira designed all our posters/flyers, the upcoming program booklet, as well as the logo.

Today I was on Samir Haddad's radio show (see post below). He's a really cool guy (who looks like the Arab version of my uncle in Wales) whose show is all about bringing the arts to the Arab communities. His show was in fusha Arabic and I could catch a word here or there, but that was it unfortunately. Our segment on the film festival was in English and hopefully I was coherent and clear enough for people to understand. But half the time no one can understand me anyway.

Shifting to Ann Arbor tomorrow for the rest of the week. Unlike the other organizers I don't have classes or work to deal with at the same time as the film festival, so I'm lucky compared to them.

Once the festival starts I'll try to get the other organizers to do guest postings so that you, dear reader, aren't just reading the rubbish that I write. There's a whole group of people behind this film festival and I want you guys to see what they have to say as well.

That's it for now. Here's another Pali tune:

The Meadow Smiled - El-Funoun