DADDY'S HERE!!

Oh my, much to talk about. First of all, my Dad and stepmom are in town, which is a treat. I have a special relationship with my father, and like to think of him as one of my best friends. He lives in a far away state called North Dakota, so I only get to see him a couple of times a year. Having them in for the weekend rocks, though I couldn't get any time off of work, which does not rock. I would have had one of the days free, but I needed a specific night off earlier in the week to audition for an acting class that I didn't get in to because...ready for this?...because I am too invested in THEATRE. Y'know, theatre, that thing where acting began? Yeah, apparently that whole "idea" is a little scary to the film and t.v. actors out here, because they run screaming when it's mentioned. I don't mean to undermine LA actors or the work they do, but to claim to be studying an art form and then completely ignore or have no interest in the ROOT of that art form shows a lack of....something. I don't know what that "something" is, but to be lacking in it is surely a detriment. Anywho, enough about the silly class.
Daddy's here, and I am trying to spend as much time with him as possible before he returns to the frozen tundra. Other than that, not much else to report. Oh, there is the whole "thinking of moving to Paris" thing, but that's still in the works. I really am seriously looking in to living in Europe for a year or so before I go to Grad school. I'd prefer London, but Paris would be nice too. I just figure that if I am ever going to do this (and I really want to do this) I am going to have to do it now. Got no man, got no kids...nothing to tie me here. I have never been so happy as when I lived there the summer of my sophomore year. England is my "happy place", and I could use a happy place right about now. The more I live in LA, the less impressed with it and it's culture I become. I mean, I love California, I love living here, but I think Europe suits me better. I spend too much of my time here looking at things or people and shaking my head in amazement that they can even manage to blink and breathe in and out without tripping over their feet as they walk. Sometimes you have to just take yourself out of your comfort zone and throw yourself in to things. I think this would be an amazing experience for me, and I don't want to spend my life regretting not doing it. My dad is being super supportive about it all, which means everything to me. He thinks it's a great idea, and I think I do too. Don't worry, they have internet over there and regular "blog" updates will still occur. Europe, here I come.

MOVIE ROLE I WISH I COULD HAVE HAD

I wish I could been the random naked extra that was draped over Brad Pitt's glorious naked back the first time we see him in Troy. I have five letters for that...Y U M M Y. (well I guess that's really three letters, but you get the drift)

ARGGH...AVAST YE MATEY'S!!

I work on a soap opera called Passions from time to time (hence the references to the TV nurse) and just recently I was called in to be a "wench" in a spoof on Pirates of the Caribbean. I had to wear a curly red wig for about nine hours which forced me to call upon all of my Buddhist concentration in order to not rip the thing from my head. But hey, all in the name of "the art", right? Bleh. I enjoy working on the show though. I have been with them for about a year and a half, and even though they haven't seen fit to give me any LINES yet (I am not sure they are aware I can speak) I am none the less learning a lot from being around an actual professional television production. Theatre was my major in college and I learned about the business aspects of theatre there, but as far as the business out here, I was definitely a novice. But I sit back and I observe the crew and directors and how they all interact with the actors and I feel like I am receiving a minor graduate education just being on the set. Beyond the fact that it fulfilled a dream to walk on to an actual studio lot and soundstage. Surreal, lemme tell ya. I never watched the show before I was on it, but now that I know the cast and have been on the sets, I get a laugh out of watching some episodes. I have been present for some fun cast moments as well. Like the time two of the "Hot" young guys on the show (Eric and Justin who play Ethan and Fox if you happen to follow) decided to take bets on an arm wrestling match between to the two. Now Justin came out sans shirt because he was about to shoot a pool scene, and Eric was finishing a hospital scene and had a white button down shirt on, and here I am, the ONLY girl on the set at the time (standing there looking around me like "you're kidding me right...This is really about to happen right in front of me? Hollywood rocks) and I am watching them prep the whole event. I bet on Eric because I have worked with him more and he's kind of a friend, and I noticed he was having trouble settling in to the wrestling pose. I, in all of my brilliance, proposed a solution to the problem and said, "Eric, just take off your shirt, you'll be able to stretch more." AND HE DID. Whew. Good times, man. I would have paid the show to be there that day. As I was in the middle of tis testosterone fest it occurred to me that I was smack dab in the middle of what was probably the fantasy of many a giddy housewife. I should have brought a camera. Not that I would have let anyone else see the pics, mind you. MINE!
Anywho, that's just one of many stories. I will try to remember some more for the future. It just hit me that I have yet to talk about being on the show, so I have some catching up to do, I guess.


FAVORITE NEW T-SHIRT PURCHASE

I bought a cute, baby-blue shirt with a fuzzy bunny smiling out, and the caption on it reads..."It's cute how you think I'm listening."