Things are falling into place

Guess where I got a job!!! Starbucks:) One 0f Forbes top 100 companies to work for. http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/bestcompanies/2009/full_list

I started training this week and am really excited to have a job I won't hate. My co-workers are very nice and helpful; there are some definite characters. I’m a little overwhelmed with all of the information I have to learn, but that is the same with any new job. Once I get some good practice I will be a drink making master. I will normally be working opening shifts, which means I will have to be to work at 4:15am.

I would consider myself a morning person, but someone who wakes up at 3:45am to go to work is not a morning person, that is a middle of the night person. The nice thing is that it will give me the whole rest of the day to work on auditions or anything else I want.

I’m so excited to finally start building some stability here.

I had three auditions this week. The first of many auditions I will hopefully be going on here. I auditioned for an agent, a theatre production, and a student film.

The agency was the Colleen Cler agency http://www.colleencler.com/. Both Andrew (boyfriend) and I were asked to come in at 11am on Tuesday morning. We thought it would just be the two of us, but in reality it was about fifteen people. We all got a chance to introduce ourselves and then we had to read a 30 sec commercial. The woman we were auditioning for was giving everyone comments like "now do it as if you were a valley girl," and the like. Well, we get to me and she says "pretend you are applying for a job, but you are anxious and nervous visibally." First of all when I go in for job interviews in real life I am anxious and nervous, but I always present myself professionaly. Second, I didn't know what she was looking for, so I was a little frustrated. My main focus became just making my second read much different than my first read. Overall, I did the best I could.

Andrew did really well, he had everyone laughing. We should find out yes or no tomorrow.

The theatre audition was very interesting. The director had us get up on the stage one at a time and say whatever we wanted for two minutes, and that was our audition. It was complete improv. I went in planning to sing and ended up talking about moving to California and the different jobs I have worked. There are some really strange individuals in this world. Lets just say I heard some crazy stories at that audition.

The student film was also an odd audition. The sides they sent were a giant action scene, no dialouge. I was extremley curious to see what the audtion would consist of. I kept having this image of me trying to act out a death scene by myself, which, of course, would look ridiculous...(punching) "take that you imgainary killer."

Let me preface this next part by saying that I am not a physically aggressive person in any way. I have never hit, kicked, or even spit on anyone intentionally.

When I got to the audtion I found out that they were pairing one man and one woman and having them audition together. They would put the two individuals on either side of the room, and would then telll the woman her goal was to get to the other side of the room while the man's goal was to keep her from getting there. Needless to say I was nervous, nervous, nervous. It didn't help that everyone coming out of the room after the audition looked exhausted and upset.

I was the last person to audition and when it came to my turn there was only me and one other girl there. They brought us both into the room and said "ok, you are both the victim and you each think that the other person is the killer, so you will fight each other." This makes no logical sense. If we each thought the other person was the killer we would just run away from each other, but whatever.

So here I am at my second audition in LA and I have to get into a girl fight; it was scary. We were pushing each other and screaming. I left that audition shaking...I hope not all auditions here are crazy.