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Eight years in just under two minutes. You gotta admire his dedication.
As some of you have probably guessed, I've been feeling kind of emotionally "meh" for a while now due to various reasons. First and foremost my lack of a job. I have been soul-crushingly bored for weeks now, but I finally have employment and prospects for more - provided that Universal and Sea World don't turn out to be cock teases just like The Holy Land Experience.
I had another interview with Universal yesterday, and the guy forwarded my info to costumes again - even though I was there to interview for Merchandising. He said that if I didn't get a call by the end of the week to call him - and he'd set me up in another department if he could. In the meantime, I have another interview with Sea World's costuming department in just over an hour...that's a plus, since they let their employees have weird hair.
As well as the hourly wage prospects, I've managed to pick up another show from Mad Cow, "I Have Before Me A Remarkable Document Given To Me By A Young Lady From Rwanda." Hmm...Death Row, Assassins and Genocide...Do I sense a theme emerging in my work?
Mad Cow does not pay as well as the Gramercy (when they pay), but I really don't care at this point because I'm finally working on shows that have artistic integrity. It's been over a year since I sat around a production table and discussed what a play means as opposed to how much money it will make and I am feeling artistically refreshed.
On the Gramercy front, I had a meeting with the Legal Aid Society on Monday in which I discussed my case
with a case manager and he discussed it with a lawyer. It goes to committee this week and I'll find out by mail towards the end of the week whether they will take my case or not. I'm pretty sure they'll take it; but if they don't I'm not giving up. I'll take them to small claims myself if I have to.
I'm also apparently making a name for myself in the Drag circuit. This is especially cool because it's a chance to do some really off beat designs and improve my couture work without having the stress of a show behind it. Plus I get to meet some really cool people. So I'm starting to warm up to Orlando.
Alex and I are doing alright. We're in an upswing from a rough patch we were going through in which I basically cut off all of my hair in some kind of mental protest. It's not quite G.I. Jane, but it's close. It should come as a surprise to no-one that we really weren't ready to live together and things got too domestic too fast. We sat down and talked about it and came to the conclusion that moving in together made sense at the time - and still does- but we really didn't take into account the changes it would bring to our lifestyle and our relationship. We discussed where conflict was coming from (my neediness and his tendency to hole up in his shell - along with an inequitable share in chore work and a lack of "fun dates") and came up with some steps for improvement. Things have been working well so far and I'm starting to feel better about our life together in general. I should probably add that we are not, nor were we ever in danger of breaking up. We were just really getting on each other's nerves and noting was being done about it. Alex has been and continues to be a strong source of love and support in my life for which I am extremely grateful for...he just plays War Craft too damn much!
That's it for now, but expect a funny story with pictures in the near future. Suffice to say that Alex and I posses a deviant streak that will come as a real surprise to our asshole neighbors.
As some of you have probably guessed, I've been feeling kind of emotionally "meh" for a while now due to various reasons. First and foremost my lack of a job. I have been soul-crushingly bored for weeks now, but I finally have employment and prospects for more - provided that Universal and Sea World don't turn out to be cock teases just like The Holy Land Experience.
I had another interview with Universal yesterday, and the guy forwarded my info to costumes again - even though I was there to interview for Merchandising. He said that if I didn't get a call by the end of the week to call him - and he'd set me up in another department if he could. In the meantime, I have another interview with Sea World's costuming department in just over an hour...that's a plus, since they let their employees have weird hair.
As well as the hourly wage prospects, I've managed to pick up another show from Mad Cow, "I Have Before Me A Remarkable Document Given To Me By A Young Lady From Rwanda." Hmm...Death Row, Assassins and Genocide...Do I sense a theme emerging in my work?
Mad Cow does not pay as well as the Gramercy (when they pay), but I really don't care at this point because I'm finally working on shows that have artistic integrity. It's been over a year since I sat around a production table and discussed what a play means as opposed to how much money it will make and I am feeling artistically refreshed.
On the Gramercy front, I had a meeting with the Legal Aid Society on Monday in which I discussed my case
with a case manager and he discussed it with a lawyer. It goes to committee this week and I'll find out by mail towards the end of the week whether they will take my case or not. I'm pretty sure they'll take it; but if they don't I'm not giving up. I'll take them to small claims myself if I have to.
I'm also apparently making a name for myself in the Drag circuit. This is especially cool because it's a chance to do some really off beat designs and improve my couture work without having the stress of a show behind it. Plus I get to meet some really cool people. So I'm starting to warm up to Orlando.
Alex and I are doing alright. We're in an upswing from a rough patch we were going through in which I basically cut off all of my hair in some kind of mental protest. It's not quite G.I. Jane, but it's close. It should come as a surprise to no-one that we really weren't ready to live together and things got too domestic too fast. We sat down and talked about it and came to the conclusion that moving in together made sense at the time - and still does- but we really didn't take into account the changes it would bring to our lifestyle and our relationship. We discussed where conflict was coming from (my neediness and his tendency to hole up in his shell - along with an inequitable share in chore work and a lack of "fun dates") and came up with some steps for improvement. Things have been working well so far and I'm starting to feel better about our life together in general. I should probably add that we are not, nor were we ever in danger of breaking up. We were just really getting on each other's nerves and noting was being done about it. Alex has been and continues to be a strong source of love and support in my life for which I am extremely grateful for...he just plays War Craft too damn much!
That's it for now, but expect a funny story with pictures in the near future. Suffice to say that Alex and I posses a deviant streak that will come as a real surprise to our asshole neighbors.