A quick wrap up of this week

This past week went by FAST.

I was starting to feel that "beginning of a new year" busy-ness, determination, focus, and energy starting wear off. It seems like I go through this every year - the first week or two back is busy, busy, then it tapers off and I lose focus. But I feel motivated again.

I'm really trying to keep up with this blog, so here's the rundown of this past week:

I decided not to go to the audition on Monday. It's not like I had an appointment and blew it off - if I wanted to audition I could just show up within the time frame, so no harm done. I would like to say there was some good reason why I didn't go, but there wasn't. I just didn't feel like going. From what I understood it was a semi-open call - some people had appointments and some didn't but would be allowed to audition whenever they wanted during the time frame and just had to show up. I was one of those and just didn't feel like dealing with a crowd of people, not having the sides ahead of time, then having to go straight to class from there. I also wasn't 100% sure I wanted to do this show - it sounded interesting, but the big thing was I didn't know the rehearsal schedule and usually I get it ahead of time. I'd just be wasting my time and everyone else's time going to audition for a show I wasn't even sure I could do. Then again, I should just go audition, but I just didn't feel like it. I wanted to sit down, eat a decent dinner and go have a kick-ass class.

Then, not too long after I decided not to go, I got an e-mail saying that I got the internship at the casting office I applied for! I was supposed to start this week but it's been pushed back a week. I'm slowly getting the details about the gig and although it's not exactly what I thought it would be, it will still be a great experience. And I've never interned at a casting office before, so then again, how would I know what to expect.

I did have a kick-ass class this week. It's been awhile since I've had one of those. I mean, every class is great, but this one was exceptionally great. I think I may have had a long, long, long overdue breakthrough.

This week I also talked to an actor friend I sort of lost touch with. We had been working on a scene and some other stuff last fall and it kind of fell by the wayside. We had an
1 1/2 hour conversation about a million things and I think we may be back on track with our scene and a few other things.

I also updated my master contact list. It was pretty much up to date except for a few things so it didn't take long to update. I've also continued my massive cleaning/organizing kick I've been. Since I've been back from Christmas I've been getting rid of stuff I just don’t need anymore and organizing the stuff I have. I've been doing it one cabinet/closet/etc. at a time so I don't feel overwhelmed by it all. In fact it feels GREAT! So freeing! I think I might have mentioned this before but I also got a new hard drive for my computer - 500GB! This gave me plenty of room to add a bunch of software updates and now my computer is running better than ever. Final Cut was acting up and Live Type kept crashing and now it works better than ever! My next thing is to clean out old programs/files/etc. I don't need and wipe out the old hard drive.

I guess that's it for now. I'll expand on some of this stuff at another time. Tomorrow's a busy day - I have to go meet with my new power group buddy and go to class. Okay, maybe not THAT busy, but still busy.