May 14, 2008

Been a bit busy and also a tad blue. I’m definitely getting bigger and it’s been an extra effort to walk around.

The class with Israel and the Columbia students is ending and I’m a bit bummed about that. They were a rare and terrific group to work with. Sometimes with other screenwriters people can be competitive nor offer very constructive crit. This was not the case in this class. The writers were very smart, compassionate and earnestly wanted other people to improve their scripts. I mentioned it to one of the students and he agreed that it was a special class.

With the class ending, I’m definitely enrolling in a writing class during the day so I can stay on top of things. I want to have a reading next week. We’re also getting a Mac so I can finish up the projects I keep talking about. Honestly, it’s also because J really wants to get a Mac desktop.

Found an interesting article about Jennifer Dundas who is in Crimes Of The Heart on Broadway:
http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Story.aspx?ci=561894
Apparently she is an actress/ice cream shop owner. Very cool.

April 6, 2008

Today I’m exhausted. If I were a mac computer, I’d be in “sleep” mode right now.

April 4, 2008

I did not feel well today. I’m finding that having a full day of activity one day leaves me slightly incapacitated the next.

I did a little research for this movie I’m supposed to be in which deals with adoption. I’ve read blogs about women who infertile and how they go through the struggle of trying to conceive. One actually showed the needles and vials they used. Another blog talked about how she had 5 miscarriages. I’ve complained a lot about how bad I’ve been feeling, but I’ll stop that now. (The above comment “I did not feel well today”was not a complaint but an observation)

April 2, 2008

Today was a restful day and yet there were cool developments:

I got a callback for a job that would be shooting in a few weeks. It shoots for a week so if I booked it, that would be nice.

Hoping to get the commercial I had the callback for yesterday. Crossing fingers.

Just got an email from my modeling agency that I’m hold for a print job next week.

Today I sat on my couch, I did research on one person shows and wrote a few pages.

I had a discussion with SR today about frustrating managers/agents. She ranted about how frustratingly apathetic her agents seemed about her career. It’s understandable but I reminded her that these agents aren’t holding our hands but they were giving us opportunities to build our careers.

Illin’

12:40 PM

Still not feeling so hot.

I spoke to my manager and she said that casting director thought I was “great” but they didn’t think they needed me and they had someone in mind. She told me that nothing is definite and she’s heard that before and then they booked her client. She also said that I should feel good because the casting director took a big risk in having me meet with the producer and director of the show.

I was bummed because I REALLY wanted it. It would’ve been great for my career and I was eager to be on set for a whole month. At the same time, I have these bad days (like today) where I just want to stay in bed all day. That said, if I booked it, I would do it come hell or high water.

I wrote 5 pages of the feature and it feels a lot better than the hodge podge script I had earlier.