I was doing a live hands scene for the Mayor which involved throwing a fried egg off a spatula. He said, “that was really funny” after one throw. (Yay!) But after the whole scene was over, I was standing close to the director’s table and he said, “You are the best woman–best person with hands that I have seen. You do a lot of subtle details. It is not easy being in sync with the puppet. You are very good.”

I think I blushed; why is that an evolutionary reponse to a compliment?

David, the mayor’s puppeteer just found this quiz online. Quiz: What Lazy Town Character are You? It’s very funny. Give it a try.

I was on set today doing live hands for the mayor and shooting the breeze with Toti (one of our puppet wranglers) between shots. He asked if it snowed a lot in Portland. I said “no”. He said, “So it’s about like here, only once a month or so.” I looked at him in complete bafflement and then realized that when he says “it snowed” he means an accumulation of more than a couple of inches. When I say “it snowed” I mean that white stuff fell out of the sky. Which means, by Icelandic standards, it never snows in Portland.

What’s interesting about that little revelation is that I have stopped posting in my weblog when the white stuff falls out of the sky, because it just seems like normal precipitation now. I hadn’t noticed that I’d stopped mentioning it till I talked to Toti.