Archive for February, 2009

Observe…
Nothing up my sleeve. Nothing up my other sleeve. Now, with one stroke of a pen I’ll make a day of work disappear!
Poof!
Tada!
I was supposed to work Tueday and Wednesday, but the second day cancelled – so I’ve only gotten one day this week (so far, but it’s slow so I’m not expecting anything else).
As of [...]

This is getting sent around via email – for some reason, I thought that the results were even kept secret from Academy members, so my initial response is to assume that it’s a joke, but there’s a teeny kernel of doubt, so I thought I’d share.
Well, I guess we’ll find out tomorrow night, won’t we?

Traffic flow

Tuesday, our call time was 6:30 am – which meant that the crosstown drive took me all of 25 minutes – and that’s including a stop for coffee.
Today, our call time was 10 am, and since rush hour in Los Angeles is from roughly 7 am to 9 pm, the same drive took me an [...]

Friday the 13th photo

Although my job for today cancelled, I still managed to work three days this week.
Actually, two and a half days. Two full days on a stage (where I decided not to bring my bicycle and ended up walking from one end of the backlot to the other about 15 times)  and one half day pulling [...]

But I waaaaaant to!

I thought I had a day of work today, but it got cancelled at the last minute – which is fine.
Okay, it’s not fine. I need the money and losing a day of work sucks ass, but since there’s no use crying over spilled milk I went to the chiropractor instead.
My plan was to get [...]

Design flaws

This past week, I’ve been doing a few days on a no-budget indie movie. It hasn’t been bad – the director is the nicest guy in the world, and is really efficient so the days haven’t been very long.
The show’s shooting in an old TV studio that was abandoned and is now being rented to [...]