Font Friends

It's funny what font op talk about to each other.  My friend, who is a font op with CBC, were comparing notes on each other's notes.  She is working the Stanley Cup Playoffs in the next truck to me. I am working the playoffs for FOX Sports.  She had posted her pics from round 1 on facebook.  It's funny, because some of the pics I had posted from my first round with FOX, were very similiar in manner.  So at 1 in the morning, we were having facebook conversations about our cheat sheets, our producers, and our treats. Every font op I know, always have treats laying beside their machines.  It's because you may not get a lunch break, or you just may need that extra sugar to get you through the game.  For me it's a box of altoids, it's my sugar crack.

When round 1 of the playoffs began, I was at the arena at 10:30 in the morning, copying and building graphics for the show.  Billboards, 8 new downloads, team promos, had to be created, and team elevator, which is like another sponsporship.  Not to mention, I had to build graphics for the open, intermissions, and postgame.  I had finished building everything by 5pm. All the stuff that was required,...done!  I was happy to get a 1 hour lunch break.  But,only to realize, upon my return, I would be typing like a mad woman to try and get some fancy stat graphics that Todd and the producer wanted...  game 1, some bumps along the way, but

for the most part, all the sponsorhip crap was there, and the producer was happy..And in the end, that's all that matters...and the fact that I still had some font crack left to chew on.