Current mood:

hopeful

huh.....
So, I've been pretty contemplative lately... but before I launch into that, I have an AWESOME announcement:

**I've just been cast in a kids' theater science show called Snarkasnoops!  We will be performing on Saturday mornings in October at the Stella Adler Theater in Hollywood, then on Sundays in North Hollywood, and then we have two dates at the Geffen Theater!  This show is also presently being pitched to Disney... the Disney execs will actually be coming to check out our shows, so cross your fingers!

**In addition, you can now find me on IMDB.com!  Yeay~~!

** I just finished performing in East West Player's "Command Performance" to wrap up our six week program!  One of my classmates' friends actually came up to me after wards and asked me to audition for her film.  She's a UCLA extension school student and a really cool gal.  I auditioned for her this past Sunday.

Now, that the announcements are over, onto the contemplative schtuff as of late:

I'm 4 days shy of my tenth month here... wow!  In both good and bad ways.  I mean, life as an actor in Hollywood, is pretty hard...  well, it feels that way these days more than it did before.  Since being 'terminated' from my temp job at the very end of June, I've been doing odds and ends jobs.  Hell, I'll confess, I'm actually on unemployment right now too!  I think that temp experience was okay only for a while until my 'I hate working in the corporate environment..grrr..!' really reared its head.  My time these days has definitely been taken up by job searches compared to the acting biz stuff, which is a bit unfortunate.  I've been looking for mainly Japanese/English interpreting and translating jobs in addition to tutoring two Japanese students at the moment, like I use to back in Boston.  I've applied for jobs via monster.com and craigslist and I'm at a point where I think I've 'cast my net' as much as I can for the time being, but the money situation is a reality and continues to elude me these days.

One 'acting comfort' is that I've continued to be in class... a very *key* thing where people can easily forget that they are actors because of jobs, friends, significant others, 'projects' or whatever.  In addition, I'm going to go talk to my theatrical agent tomorrow.  It's been a little over two months since signing with him and I haven't been sent out at all.  I sat back for a month with the 'comfort' of having an agent, but I've still been sending out my pictures to casting directors like a diligent actor that I am.  Most of the reason is because TV season is kicking into gear *now* and I'm also a newbie.  Nonetheless, I need my agent to pull for me and to get me in that room with those casting directors!  As for the commercial agent, it's been okay with them; they've sent me out here and there... I just gotta book it!  Which is why I'm taking a commercial auditioning class in addition to my scene study class.  Where do I get the money to finance this?  I have no idea.  Thank god for credit cards :p

But despite my inner turmoil, I still like to keep my chin up.  I have this philosophy (which is probably 99.999% true) that if you keep thinking gloomy thoughts, only bad things can happen to you.  So, I've been trying to be optimistic and keep looking at the horizon.  I've been super active in the community at large... I've been house managing for Lodestone Theatre company for their present show "One Nation Under God."  In addition, I've been continuing to be active in the music community... I'm helping out with a fundraiser called The Platform 2006 and also with jd8 record/komuzika's singer songwriter residency at Chow Fun restaurant in LA's Chinatown.  It's been crazy especially with the house managing thing, but after this month it'll get a bit more quiet... thank god!!!  I think I won't be freaking out as much and I hope that I start seeing more auditions coming my way in September!

Thanks for reading folks!  And double THANK YOU for posting too... it means a lot for me to know that you guys support me, even if it's just to say hi!