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Once again, I am starting an entry shortly before Rob is due home, so I'll probably not get anywhere near as much as I intend written.
The show is going well. Three more performances left. I am both happy and sad to see it almost over.
The last night Joe (the director) was with us, we had a little "party" for him. I was in charge of ordering the cake so naturally I did from my Wal-Mart. Everyone gushed about how wonderful the cake was. Um... OK. whatever.
Joe and I talked a long time about acting and whatnot. He told me that he really didn't see any reason why I couldn't do commercials or voice overs or the like out of Nashville. He told me I have a very good look, a great voice and am very good in the acting department as well. This all gave me a huge boost of confidence and so I have started trying once again to find those kinds of opportunities online. I really need to just ask Kathy if she knows of anything to just send it my way. Because Kathy is an amazing resource.
This play has been an interesting experience for me. I'm used to playing the comedic roles, and none of my lines get laughed at in this show. So I kind of wondered if I wasn't doing a good enough job. But then I realized, that really... even though I do try for laughs in some of the places where I act all sarcastic and everything... they're not laughers. And really, the reaction I go for more is the tear jerker towards the end.
I do wish that Ev could have made it to see the show. I kind of want a "See, I TOLD you!" but... I don't think he came the night he said he was going to.
I'm having fun at Wal-Mart. I get to do all sorts of different things most of the time. And perhaps will have the opportunity to be considered for another position, but not still on the front end. Which I'm torn about. We need people, good people, on the front end so badly... But there have been so many people who have risen to department managers and other promotions from this position... I don't know. And I do really like to get to do things off the front end every now and then. But, I do still love the front end...
Drama and Comedy are doing well. They play together and Drama frequently will groom Comedy. We haven't gotten them to canned food quite yet. We had just not long before I decided to switch gotten a huge bag of food... I kind of want to start feeding half and half... But that's an expense that we don't really need to make right now.
Rob needs new shoes desperately. Luckily, it's payday (well, Thursday is). I also would like to get some different shoes, but for me it isn't necessary at all.
I keep thinking about how nice it would be to just find and land a commercial shoot. Get enough notice I can ask for time off from Wal-mart and go shoot a commercial and then start getting some extra checks.
It'd be more than just being "nice" with the money. It'd be really cool to know that I again bested what Ev had told me. Ev told me not quite in so many words that I could never make it on TV or movies. I didn't have the look. I was strictly theater. But Joe... Joe basically (though not in so many words) said he didn't understand why I wasn't already on TV.
I watch the LG15 stuff occasionally still... and I just think about what a lucky break Jessica Rose and Youssef had. They applied for Craiglist auditions, just the same as I've been looking through... and they landed a huge ... whatever. I want so badly to apply/audition for some of the "feature films" advertised on Craiglist, but I am scared because I have work to work around.
On another note... I played my first ever table top RPG the other day. I kind of drug my feet and bitched and moaned about it, but ultimately decided to "be a good sport" and put a half hearted effort into it so that the boys could have some fun. And I actually discovered that I kind of liked it. Sure it was a rushed "1 shot" thing... But honestly, I think I would like to give something like that another go. Admittedly, I had a good group (very small, just Derek, Casey and Rob. Derek being GM so only two other players beside myself) and they were very understanding and helped me along. But yeah... not such a bad thing after all.
Well... Now I need to go put a little work toward dinner.
The show is going well. Three more performances left. I am both happy and sad to see it almost over.
The last night Joe (the director) was with us, we had a little "party" for him. I was in charge of ordering the cake so naturally I did from my Wal-Mart. Everyone gushed about how wonderful the cake was. Um... OK. whatever.
Joe and I talked a long time about acting and whatnot. He told me that he really didn't see any reason why I couldn't do commercials or voice overs or the like out of Nashville. He told me I have a very good look, a great voice and am very good in the acting department as well. This all gave me a huge boost of confidence and so I have started trying once again to find those kinds of opportunities online. I really need to just ask Kathy if she knows of anything to just send it my way. Because Kathy is an amazing resource.
This play has been an interesting experience for me. I'm used to playing the comedic roles, and none of my lines get laughed at in this show. So I kind of wondered if I wasn't doing a good enough job. But then I realized, that really... even though I do try for laughs in some of the places where I act all sarcastic and everything... they're not laughers. And really, the reaction I go for more is the tear jerker towards the end.
I do wish that Ev could have made it to see the show. I kind of want a "See, I TOLD you!" but... I don't think he came the night he said he was going to.
I'm having fun at Wal-Mart. I get to do all sorts of different things most of the time. And perhaps will have the opportunity to be considered for another position, but not still on the front end. Which I'm torn about. We need people, good people, on the front end so badly... But there have been so many people who have risen to department managers and other promotions from this position... I don't know. And I do really like to get to do things off the front end every now and then. But, I do still love the front end...
Drama and Comedy are doing well. They play together and Drama frequently will groom Comedy. We haven't gotten them to canned food quite yet. We had just not long before I decided to switch gotten a huge bag of food... I kind of want to start feeding half and half... But that's an expense that we don't really need to make right now.
Rob needs new shoes desperately. Luckily, it's payday (well, Thursday is). I also would like to get some different shoes, but for me it isn't necessary at all.
I keep thinking about how nice it would be to just find and land a commercial shoot. Get enough notice I can ask for time off from Wal-mart and go shoot a commercial and then start getting some extra checks.
It'd be more than just being "nice" with the money. It'd be really cool to know that I again bested what Ev had told me. Ev told me not quite in so many words that I could never make it on TV or movies. I didn't have the look. I was strictly theater. But Joe... Joe basically (though not in so many words) said he didn't understand why I wasn't already on TV.
I watch the LG15 stuff occasionally still... and I just think about what a lucky break Jessica Rose and Youssef had. They applied for Craiglist auditions, just the same as I've been looking through... and they landed a huge ... whatever. I want so badly to apply/audition for some of the "feature films" advertised on Craiglist, but I am scared because I have work to work around.
On another note... I played my first ever table top RPG the other day. I kind of drug my feet and bitched and moaned about it, but ultimately decided to "be a good sport" and put a half hearted effort into it so that the boys could have some fun. And I actually discovered that I kind of liked it. Sure it was a rushed "1 shot" thing... But honestly, I think I would like to give something like that another go. Admittedly, I had a good group (very small, just Derek, Casey and Rob. Derek being GM so only two other players beside myself) and they were very understanding and helped me along. But yeah... not such a bad thing after all.
Well... Now I need to go put a little work toward dinner.