July 2009

The MintI woke up feeling sun burnt from Friday’s craziness.  Christine and I went to Ihop for breakfast, and then I jetted off to see my friend who is visiting from Kuwait in Temecula.  We visited for a couple hours by his friend’s pool and I could feel myself getting more and more burnt (lobster red).  I decided I should get out of the sun and head back home, hoping to get to my PMB in time before it closed to see if The Bicyclists dvd arrived in the mail.  Yay, it arrived!  Even better news is that the way I took home was much faster than going I-5 with all the backed up traffic!

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BUD/SI left to San Diego Thursday afternoon after my second casting session - this time it was much better with lots of variety and bigger choices from the actors.

 I talked to J on the way to Christine’s (my BFF and QB for TWBFL) in San Diego and he had mentioned that he was doing a ‘Rock Portage’ around 7pm in Coronado and that we could come and watch.  I have never seen him do anything with the Navy, I have seen his old job in Whidbey Island, but I have never seen him PT or actually work and since this was his passion and I had a chance to watch, I didn’t want to miss it.  I arrived at Christine’s around 6pm, I met her dad and we sat around and talked for a bit. All of a sudden it was already 7.  Christine and I headed out towards Coronado and we decided to grab some Starbucks before heading over to watch on the beach. 

My new rideThis weekend was a crazy weekend.  J came up to visit and he needed to find a car (he was stressing out not having one, whether he’ll admit it or not).  We woke up semi-early on Saturday and left to go car shopping down Brand Ave in Glendale.  He was really only interested in getting another Jeep either wrangler that someone had put a lot of money into, or a Rubicon (nothing brand new, he didn’t want higher payments again like his old, but brand new 09 Rubicon that was totaled).  Since we didn’t see a Chrysler/Jeep dealer on Brand (they must have went out of business), we stopped at Toyota.

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Since my acting class that I was supposed to start taking fell through, I took my first acting type of class since I have been back to Los Angeles, (actually the first acting class I have taken since going to AADA) this last Tuesday.  It was really a casting director workshop, but they worked on scenes and auditions with us, so I pretty much considered that an acting class.  They also picked apart our resumes and headshots and told us (what I already know) that in order to survive and get ahead in this industry if you are not already doing co-staring roles on television shows and leading roles in big budget indies, that you need to pigeon-hole yourself into a character type that you do/look/play well.  I am always the “girl- next-door” but even tha

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I woke up with a massive headache and finally decided to e-mail (once again) my landlord, whom I have already called three times about my oven/stove.  First it was broken (they never fixed it, someone else did), now it leaks gas, which is causing my headaches and dizziness when I stand around the oven for over five minutes.

My audition was bumped up to 11am, instead of 2pm, so I had to prepare for that this morning.  I left the house early, worried that all the Michael Jackson funeral traffic would hold me up, but I was clear.  I stopped by my PMB, picked up my mail, went to Target to pick up a few things, then off to my audition.  Street cleaning day, lovely – no parking.  I finally found a spot about 4 blocks from the audition place, not too bad… either that or a nice $65 ticket.  I even thought of parking on the street cleaning side and stealing someone else’s ticket and putting it on my car so that I would potentially be safe, but no.

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