I am in a much better mood than my last post, ha ha. I spent all day today helping Glenn with a set design at Galaxy, so I got to see Kirsten Perea again. Love that bitch. She has looked and acted the same way for the past two decades, is Dutch, and was once a member of the Helen Hayes Theater before it burnt down and was rebuilt. Like, are you kidding me? And she still runs this children's theater in Pinellas Park as the Artistic and Executive Director. It's hard for a young person to take on both of those responsibilities. She's the most amazing person in the world, I'm convinced. So, needless to say, it was good to see her. Pocketed a little money from that to get through the week. Of course, by the end of this week, I will be securely employed, right? Surely this will happen.
Speaking of which, the list of places I have applied this summer continues to grow, with two new contenders as of this evening: Blockbuster and Best Buy. I should hear back from Panera by tomorrow whether or not they are going to hire me, and I will probably bus down to Target and put in an application there as well if Panera doesn't end up working out. Actually, I may put in an application anyway. These are not difficult-to-get-into jobs. Or so I thought. The saga continues.
Last night I had some disturbing dreams about apartment hunting next year. I finally found a place, but I was only able to afford a really piece of crap apartment in a bad part of town, and although I was comforted to know that I had somewhere to live, there were holes in the walls and such... really large holes. I looked out of the window to see the view and it was all construction vehicles. We were walking out of the apartment and there was a man sitting on the side of a bridge with a beige potato sack, from which he was taking children and throwing them off the bridge one after another. Needless to say, I did not feel secure. The summer is still young, I still have two more months and I'm trying my darnedest, and I have Girlie Show and Manifesto coming up, and I'll definitely get money from Girlie Show, so I'm not that worried yet. But you know, there's always a part of you assuming the worst.
Speaking of which, I've been informed that I'm officially the Manifesto workshop this summer! For those of you that don't know, my friend Dylan Glatthorn has been writing a musical for the past several years called Manifesto, and just this past year Paul Alexander, a New York Times Best Selling author, has agreed to hop on board and help Dylan with the book of the musical, which is INCREDIBLY exciting. He just released a book called Machiavelli's Shadow: The Rise and Fall of Karl Rove which he's getting a lot of press for: he was on Andersoon Cooper and CNN this past week. I heard a little bit about what they've been doing with the book and it continues to get more and more exciting, I hope that it does well... I'm so excited to see the script! And to get an opportunity to perform again... it's been awhile. I'll update more when we start rehearsing and such.
For the record, we've been doing a lot of bowling this summer. It's been great fun. Twedt's Lanes. Cheap Seminole Bowling Lanes. We've been improving, except for Dylan, although he started to "use his thumb" in the last game and reclaimed his dignity. Saw Melissa Oropesa and she gave me coins from Israel. So good! I don't think I'm ever going to be able to use them for anything though... they're currently sitting on my shelf. And I got to hang out with my cousins Chloe & Shelby this past Friday which was really great because I've missed them all year and really wanted to spend more time with them over the summer. Yay! I'm going to ask my Aunt Lisa if I can sneak into her fitness center... oh, I forgot to mention, I also applied at Gold's Gym because I saw an ad on Craigslist. Have yet to hear back from them. Seriously, the day I get a job will be like the happiest day of my life. It will be like a dream from someone else's life. Like, I just won the lottery good.
Oh! Another thing. I saw my first concert since like, Warped Tour three years ago. On Thursday night Colleen, Sheila, Valerie, and her sister Julie all went to go see Ingrid Michaelson at the State Theater downtown and she was fucking AMAZINGGGGG! Even better in concert, and so funny too, so entertaining. Took video of the concert and tried to edit it on FinalCut Pro for my Mac, only to find that it is much more complicated than I had anticipated... I'm going to have to take it a little bit at a time I guess. While we were there we unexpectedly met up with Rachel Scherer (I don't even remember the last time I saw her, so needless to say it was really good to see her), Britta and her mom Deidre. How amazing, right? It was great stuff.
Sunday night, up late, watching [adult swim] and updating my blog after a long day of work. Oh, yes. Yes yes yes. This has been a wonderful week. A hard week, but a wonderful one.
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