Day From Hell

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.

My audition was for a comedic web series, almost like The Office.  I felt like my character was more like “Pam”.  We didn’t receive the sides until about 10 minutes before we went in.   I thought they were clever, and while reading them I kept picturing Pam from The Office speaking to the camera.  I went in, the loved my headshot (it’s sideways), I sat down on a broken chair, but I quickly scooted over to the non-broken chair (I thought it would be funny, but really it wasn’t).  Then I did my read – not bad.  The writer gave me direction, I did the read again… but for some reason, I was stuck in the first read and the second read was a little too similar, they also encouraged improv, which I love, but for some reason didn’t do (wtf was wrong with me?).  Anyways, the writer was about to grab the male actor to read with me, when the director stopped him and said, “No, that’s okay.  That’s okay, we’ll get another female actor to read with him.”  I was shocked, wow that was blunt.  “Thank you, you have a really lovely headshot.  Oh, wow, you have a lot of experience!”  “Yea…” “How long have you been acting?” “Since I was 12, but really into it since 2003.” “Hmm, I can tell, you’re talented. Thank you.” “Thanks.”  Um, WTF just happened there?? 

I head home, thankful that it was over (oddly as I try to figure out what the hell just happened?). 

I take off my sweater, my button up shirt, my slacks (we had to dress as if we worked in a law firm), my heels and put on some shorts and a tank… ahh, much better!  I get to work, I have a few e-mails from bands that I started to help promote, a few that are interested in what I had to offer them, and a few that were offering me comp tickets to their shows… too bad they’re all in Seattle and I am in LA. 

I check my bank account, yes, I got paid.  I have to head to Chase to transfer money from one account to another so I can pay my car payment which is now due.  As I pull up to the bank, I try to squeeze my car in a tiny space, but alas the space is too small.  I start to back out, I hear a honking.  My mind is still fried from what happened earlier and the gas fumes of my apartment. I look around, I see nothing.  I continue to back up, and BOOB, right into another car… good job LAchic!  Luckily the guy was high, I was wearing short shorts and there was no damage to either car, otherwise we could have had some issues.  I run in the bank, a nice man opens the door for me (first nice thing to happen all day, unless you count the guy letting me get away with nothing from the car accident). 

I quickly run over to the grocery store, since its in the same parking lot, double checking everything before I back up (wtf is wrong with me, I never do that). 

When I get home, J calls me… guess what!  He can’t make it for my birthday this weekend… go figure. What else can go wrong?

Oh, wait... did I say that?  My website got shut down… my oldest brother knew that the company that does the web hosting for his site was going out of business, but instead of telling me, so I could move my website, it goes under… Now, I can’t transfer it for 60 days.  That means everyone I have been directing to my site for all my acting work cannot see it… wonderful.

I finished work, thankful that I at least had that to keep my mind occupied from going insane, text a few friends about this weekend and now I am going to sit back and read a script for a film I will be shooting in Washington the end of July to mid-August. 

Please let tomorrow be better!