Weekend Update

Always kind of the more-or-less reliable part of SNL, right?

So the wedding reception was a wedding reception: catered food and booze and line dancing. Lisa, who is very hard to get out of her apartment AT ALL, for any reason other than work, was 45 minutes late, meaning that the already looooooong trip out to flushing was even longer. Helene was wearing pretty much exactly the same dress as the mother of the groom, which i thought was pretty funny.

Yesterday started with a quick breakfast before a noon rehearsal. It's taking me a while to get used to the downtown theater rehearsal vibe again. Nebulous start times, talk talk talk about whatever, whenever. I remember working like that and liking it, but over the last few years in grad school and regional theater i've gotten so used to being way stricter with time, and getting to the nuts and bolts pretty fast. I really like the director alot - what he says makes sense and gets results, plus he's cool and fun and easy to get along with - so that's a big plus. It's just a way of approaching the work i haven't been involved with lately.

Which brings up a point that's been gnawing on me since that day i wrote last week about not feeling the day job. I am pretty tired of the whole 'aspiring actor with an office gig' thing. For a few years prior to last spring ('05) i had been doing acting and teaching fairly exclusively. Never had any money, but i felt like i was doing was i am on this earth to do. Now i'm in the union but getting work less frequently - the day job means i don't struggle so much financially, but my life is out of synch. Either i have to make peace with this system of doing shows in indie theater while working office jobs and such (which, knowing myself, i don't really see happening) or find a way into fulfilling this calling i have.

That's where i'm at today.