Today 27th May 2009 Production, My Arch Nemesis!

Today I walked into Abigail's class an Editor and left as a Script Supervisor/Editor. For some of yourselves that were present to witness the look of terror on my face as Abigail tried her best to explain to me what it involves, must have been a sight. She tried her best to explain the details involved from timing the script to adding it all up, to then subtract it again against the estimated time then to do something else with total shot footage tally number. To be fair she did try, but as soon as someone even starts mentioning numbers to me I just shut down, I can deal with time codes as an editor because all I need to do is punch the numbers in, Done, Easy, Sorted.
But for every time I half clicked onto what she was explaining, she would pull out another sheet of paper with another set of rules attached to it, somewhere involving numbers! I did feel like I was going to pass out, my head was swirling round and round trying to grasp at what she was saying. But my brain just kept rebooting and I would be like, sorry what? what's going on?