Additional acting bits

Just remembered stuff from acting the other day. They provided snack-ies and i randomly grabbed a donut, i was pleasantly surprised by the blueberry jam filling, NOM! Also some guy came up to me cuz i was reading a physical geography book. He was kind of cute but he is Australian. He was trying to get rid of his accent, which is sad. He also told me he used to be a Genetics major, what a surprise but graduated with science journalism. He was nice and interesting but a bit weird.

Also I'm pretty sure i'm going to start using a call-in service to get acting jobs during my winter break. I have a really long break so I can work during the weekday. I'm pretty excited about this, I've always loved TV now i get to be on TV and get paid doing it.

First day of paid acting/extra

Last night i got a call from my acting agency, they wanted my car and me to be in some new show. This is the first time I've been contacted instead of me calling-in. I figure i can just miss a day of class, I'm getting an A in that class anyways. Thing is, call time is at 6am, so i have to be there at 6am. I finally go to sleep at midnight, I'm nervous and excited, my first ever gig!

I wake up at 4:45am get ready and drive all the way to LA. There was actually some traffic at 5:30am, crazy crazy. I drive around downtown LA at sunset, there's barely any cars and is quite beautiful. It took me a while to find the parking structure we're supposed to use. I run and go find the building I have to be in. There was lots of running. I finally found it and someone told me that i was super early, ugh.

I brought my textbook with me as a prop and to study. I try to read but i hear interesting stuff from the next table. So i join them and we all talk. There was a girl and a guy. The girl says that she gets work like 3-4 days a week. I am very impressed but she says it's because she paid for a call-in service. So she pays them like $70 a month but she gets steady work, so that's worth it. The guy is pretty new, this is his second gig. He's pretty cute too.

There are actually a lot of people at this shoot. We check-in by getting papers that pay us later. They check our wardrobe. People were pretty serious about wardrobe, a bunch of people brought suitcases with different clothes.

The production people guide us to a place where they have breakfast for us. Apparently they give us a really good breakfast. We had a lot of choices for breakfast: scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage patty, oatmeal, cereal, fruit, hash browns, coffee and orange juice. It was a pretty good breakfast, I was pretty nervous.

After breakfast we did a lot of waiting. I was a car person so we had to do different things. Since i had very little gas i was one of the people that was supposed to just park their car on the street. I was happy because driving in circles under someone's directions seem scary. So then we do more waiting. I talk to the guy and we're both TV fanatics. It was really fun talking to someone that's as obsessed as me about TV. If only he wasn't gay! Bummer.

They call everyone out except the parked car people. Cute gay guy was one of the drivers so i had no one to talk to. So we just wait in the room for a long time, I tried studying but the boringness was getting to me and i was getting sleepy. I figured he didn't need us anymore so I wander outside. I just decide to be a pedestrian it's not like they're going to care. They're paying me, might as well use me on the streets instead of sitting inside. So what we do is walk around. Wait, then walk some more, repeat.

It was kind of boring but then i call Cynthia and tell her about everything that happened. I looked like a real New Yorker, walking fast and talking on the phone. More realistic hahaha! Thing is that i really didn't know where the cameras, i just walked where they told me to. I also got some free coffee samples, looks really delicious.

So it's a wrap, we only actually did 2 or 3 hours of work. They told us to stay, so everyone wrapped up. I didn't get to talk or say bye to the cute gay guy :( then they said we were wrapped. We got compted for our parking. I was pretty damn tired when we left at 2:30pm.

This gig really made me want to actually do acting actively on my time off.

UCSB vs. Fullerton

On Saturday, Ann, Mika and I went to SB for the Men's Soccer Big West Championship game. We got to SB around 2pm and met up with Mary and Tony. We all piled into Ann's car like old times and drove down to State st. We had lunch at The Habit and went shopping at Urban. It felt like old times and it felt like home. I think I returned to my worry-less mood and just enjoyed the moments as they came.

We bought some booze and went back to the apartment. We all had different stuff and proceeded to get drunk. Then we all walked to the soccer game. Of course we were in the Gaucho Loco section, where else would we be? The game was really fun, we learned some new cheers and we won. Overall a great game. We took lots of pictures and got a coupon for a free burger from Silvergreens! I got my wish to eat at Silvergreens.

Went back to the apartment, ate and chilled. It felt really good but of course we had to leave. Oh i miss SB, but it was really great visiting.

On the drive back, Ann and I had real talk while Mika talked to a boy she liked on the phone. We need to have more trips to SB or anywhere else.

Whine whine whine

Being broke really sucks. I don't have money to eat out, hang out with friends, do fun things or even buy simple things.

My social life is basically in the toilet because I can't afford to do anything. I would have visited SB more if I had money to get back to SB and back AND money for gas for going to school and back.

But i guess it's my fault, I haven't really applied for too many jobs. Most jobs want me to apply online. I feel that doing that is very impersonal and that they don't even read my application/resume.

I was thinking about going with a Temp Service place, but those require you to work full time which I cannot do because I am deferring my loan payments. I wouldn't make enough money to pay my loans and have some fun money. I miss fun money, booo.

I miss eating at Chipotle :(