How the West was Won

Another week down, and another week closer to reaching my goal. I didn't have any auditions, call backs, or meet anyone cool. But I did have a full week of work and I am still alive to see another day to get an audition, get a call back, and meet the right people. It has been one of those weeks where when it rains it pours. Every day that I worked went late into the night and started at an odd time of the day to where you gotta sit in a lot of traffic or you can't get any errands done because you get done so late at night.

I worked on the show HOUSE the other day and they were on location in Redondo Beach. Which is about 30 miles from my home, so a 60 mile round trip. This was inconvenient in more ways than one. First of all when I booked myself they didn't tell me it was in Redondo. If I had known, I would have done another show. Second of all my call time was 11 am. Which doesn't sound too bad, but you gotta think: 30 miles = 45 mins of travel in no traffic. 30 miles to arrive at 11am = leave at 9:30 or earlier. I was happy to get work, so I took it. Except on this day I made a rookie mistake. I didn't pay too much attention to the street signs and overshot an important street by 3 MIILES!!! What a DOPE! And I didn't fill up my gas tank the day before when I knew I should have. So once I realized I went too far, I was running late and had to stop to get gas. It was the first time I was late in 4 years.

This job provides with enough stress that the last you need is a call from the agency asking you why you're late to a 11am call time. Although, my day did provide me with entertainment. As I was sitting in my chair reading my book, there was a cute girl sitting across from me and this guy had come over to make conversation. I thought to myself, "alright, this should be good." He started out pretty good, but then he started to slip. She was reading 'Anything' by Ernest Hemingway and he thought he should pull the "Twilight" card and say the phrase "i'm team Jacob." Which was AWESOME. Because I know his thought process went like this: She's reading a book, which means she's read Twilight, and that's popular, chicks like Twilight, I should say something witty/funny, then BOOM GOES THE DYNAMITE. She didn't even give him a sympathy laugh, just a polite way to letting him know she was enjoying her book and would like to be left alone. BURN! He left with his tail in between his legs. She shook her head and I said "Team Jacob huh? Team Edward is way cooler." We had a good laugh and went back to reading.

"Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid." - John Wayne