"Loving is Sharing Rainbows of Happiness"

I'm baaaaaaaack!

After a week of what seemed liked endless auditions and driving around the county of Orange, it's Tuesday again! I can't believe it. As much as I don't have a regular job yet (being positive), I'm still staying busy with reading, working on monologues, arranging auditions, going to auditions, and making the apartment more and more like the den of theatre I want it to be. I'll try to post a pic of the wall I put up today.

Originally this post was going to be called "Callback Conflicts and Comfort Food." Instead, I changed it to the fortune in my...fortune cookie, "Loving is Sharing Rainbows of Happiness." Yes, I realize, a little cheesy, but I feel it's something my week was missing, at least in my career world. Now I know I haven't been hoofing it for years, living on Ramen Noodles and selling blood to make rent, but I definitely had got caught in a rut of sorts. I realized I wasn't having enough fun at my auditions. I was too stuck in my head worrying about too much when I should just be letting it flow. In other words, I wasn't loving my job. And when you are an actor, if you don't love it, it's not like you are doing it for the money. Now mind you, some of these things I auditioned for didn't pay, but I wanted to go out and stretch my wings. Plus, sometimes one non-paying thing can lead to a paying thing. So take a chance, you never know. But always try to love and get out of your head!

So now I'm trying to kind of pep rally myself before an audition.
"Go Alex, Go! Remember to have fun! You can do this! Just listen to what they are asking for and give it your best! Ra Ra Shish Goo Bomb!" (Or something like that. I really don't know how that last bit is supposed to go.)

Anyway, just remember fellow entertainers, and people of the world in general, love what you do, or at least find something in it to love. If you don't, that's when you will find yourself in a rut, hating your life.

In career news, I just got cast in a PSA for the Humane Society. More details to come soon. I have the callback coming up for the sketch comedy group. (Oh that's where the part of the title "Callback Conflicts" came from. They were planning on filming the PSA on Thursday which was the same day as the sketch comedy callback. But I got some things rearranged, so we are good to go.) Bunch more auditions coming up in February. I'm going to Tampa on Monday, to be an extra in a commercial, my first actual paid one! So things are on the up and up. Like someone very special to me said one day, "It takes those 99 'No's to get that 1 'Yes'."

So what do you love about your job? What's that thing that actually makes you happy at work, or if you don't have that, what is something that you look for in a job that makes you happy? (if you need a map to that sentence, i understand.)