So big changes in
Bizzy-land…I’ve gone back to school! I’m
basically doing a pre-med curriculum at the local community college in
preparation for applying to – wait for it – nursing programs. I’m taking night classes, which feature amazing
casts of characters (exotic dancer!) about whom I’d love to write someday. Community college is a great democratizing
institution – you have people sitting in a classroom with great careers and
prestigious degrees all the way down to clueless eighteen-year-olds just trying
to get some credits under their belt. I
took Biology over the summer and now I’m taking Chemistry and what I can only
term “BOOT CAMP” Anatomy & Physiology I with a professor who has the
reputation of being THE HARDEST A&P professor of any state institution from
UCONN on down. I really didn’t expect to
be diagnosing skin cancer in lab in week two.
But I digress!
So it’s been busy for
me to say the least. I thought I’d give
you a glimpse of what’s been going in on the child-performer side of my
world. I’ve kvetched a bit in the past
few months about the slow size 4, but there have been some slightly regular
opportunities lately…they’ve just come all at once! We had a few clusters of bookings over the
summer. Two weeks ago I got a deluge of
emails from the agency. In a three hour
period I was notified of two go-sees the next day, a decent booking for two
days later, and two holds for the following week. We managed to hit both go-sees pretty
smoothly. Two go-sees and the round trip
in six hours highlighted by one parking garage in-and-out in under half an hour
– $9 score! – and one free on-street parking spot. Didn’t book…but whatever, we got out
there. The job the following day was
crazy far in southern Jersey, but it was an 8-hour gig to make up for it and we
really didn’t hit any ridiculous traffic.
Far more stressful was the fact that my son’s car broke down (I let him
drive my car for a few days) and I scratched my rental when pulling over for
three police vans on W. 26th Street BUT saved myself by buying the
extra insurance coverage FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER (totally got a weird feeling
that I should and I am GLAD I DID!).
Last week was
dead. The holds last week fell through
(for the better, since I had to study for my first test in Boot Camp A&P). Friday afternoon we got another set of holds
for this coming week (one for some app and one for a department store) and an
audition for a film tomorrow afternoon.
Another race to the city and get to class in Northwestern Connecticut afternoon,
but hey, if it’s not ridiculous it must not be my jam.
I’ll keep you
posted. Back to studying my histology slides
and fetal pig organs!
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