Battle of the Wills

This last week has been an epic battle of the wills. Usually I lose these types of battles, but I am pretty set on winning this particular battle.

If you remember me talking a couple of weeks ago about my storyboard project, you would recall that I was stressed about completing massive amounts of work by that Friday. Well, the good news is I worked like crazy and actually did manage to finish. The bad news is that they had more work planned for me. One of the thirty second commercials turned into a three minute music video. That means a lot more sketching. Since it was for the same client I figured that I had an obligation to see the project to completion so I grudgingly took the project on, while politely telling him that it would take me a bit longer because of my internship.

He then asked me if I would like to work on another commercial for him. I began to panic. How was I going to handle extra work while devoting my time to my internship? Then I realized,"Hey, dummy, you can say no to stuff like this! Stand up for yourself!" So I did. And I got a high from it.

Thankfully, that high has carried into this week. I've needed it. I have gotten an email and two texts asking me to do this other commercial. Quote "We really need you to do the ______ commercial, and we need you to get it to us by Wednesday. Thanks". That seemed slightly pushy to me. It didn't even seem to give me the option to decline. But I did anyways..over and over again. Who knows, maybe I'm just angry because they asked me if Payton was such a controlling husband that he wouldn't let me have my own email (we have a shared email).