Another Day ... Another Dollar
Hiya, folks,
Well, I got up early this morning to go to my admin group for my musical theater class. An admin group is simply a meeting of a couple of people to set goals for the next week to accomplish with regards to their career. I hadn't been going because I've been so wiped out doing Love's Labour's Lost that getting up at 6:00 a.m. was out of the question. Since the show opened last week and there aren't any rehearsals this week (for which I'm eternally grateful), I got to go this morning. It was good to connect with Ross, Ann and Tilly again.
I have to get my career going. Although, I like my legal secretary job, and I've been doing it almost 8 years (sheesh, I'm getting old), I would really LOVE to be a full-time actor and singer. So, what this means is a commercial agent. I hate agents, I've always been intimidated by the very idea of finding one that believes in my talent (which would mean that I would have to believe in my talent, which I am just recently starting to do), so I've avoided it for a very long time. I can't anymore. You can NOT get cast in commercials or films without a good agent. So, I'm going to swallow my fear and find one and get to work.
I also need to join the acting unions, which also scare the pants off me. Again, it's a thing of not wanting to put myself up to be rejected. SAG is especially important, and then Equity and AFTRA. The only hitch (besides the $1400 required to join ... AND the Taft-Hartley act) is that if I join Equity I won't be able to do the small Shakespeare stuff I've been doing. I don't know how to get around that. I help to run the Long Beach Shakespeare Company, so it would be kind of like not being able to work for myself.
And, last but certainly not least ... my health. I have to do the following things:
1) Lose 50 lbs.
2) Stop smoking.
3) Exercise daily
4) Start eating sensibly.
Why, you ask? Well, I've been HIV+ and Hep C+ for about 12 years, and if I'm going to live long enough to be a burden on my neices and nephews, I need to start taking better care of myself. Plus, I'm known for how tired I am all the time. I mean, granted, I work my ass off regularly and run for about 16 hours a day, but when a 16 year old tells you that "you're always tired," it's time to fix it or quit bitching.
So, I've joined e-diets, and am going to start following their regimen for weight loss. And get the patch from Sav-ons (AGAIN) and do that whole thing. And start going to the gym. Now, that means, I gotta figure out all the stuff I gotta do. What timne, where to shower, what clothes to bring, blah, blah, blah.
Anyway, the bosses are calling me, so I'm going to end it here.
See ya tomorrow.
Light and Laughter,
Travis
Well, I got up early this morning to go to my admin group for my musical theater class. An admin group is simply a meeting of a couple of people to set goals for the next week to accomplish with regards to their career. I hadn't been going because I've been so wiped out doing Love's Labour's Lost that getting up at 6:00 a.m. was out of the question. Since the show opened last week and there aren't any rehearsals this week (for which I'm eternally grateful), I got to go this morning. It was good to connect with Ross, Ann and Tilly again.
I have to get my career going. Although, I like my legal secretary job, and I've been doing it almost 8 years (sheesh, I'm getting old), I would really LOVE to be a full-time actor and singer. So, what this means is a commercial agent. I hate agents, I've always been intimidated by the very idea of finding one that believes in my talent (which would mean that I would have to believe in my talent, which I am just recently starting to do), so I've avoided it for a very long time. I can't anymore. You can NOT get cast in commercials or films without a good agent. So, I'm going to swallow my fear and find one and get to work.
I also need to join the acting unions, which also scare the pants off me. Again, it's a thing of not wanting to put myself up to be rejected. SAG is especially important, and then Equity and AFTRA. The only hitch (besides the $1400 required to join ... AND the Taft-Hartley act) is that if I join Equity I won't be able to do the small Shakespeare stuff I've been doing. I don't know how to get around that. I help to run the Long Beach Shakespeare Company, so it would be kind of like not being able to work for myself.
And, last but certainly not least ... my health. I have to do the following things:
1) Lose 50 lbs.
2) Stop smoking.
3) Exercise daily
4) Start eating sensibly.
Why, you ask? Well, I've been HIV+ and Hep C+ for about 12 years, and if I'm going to live long enough to be a burden on my neices and nephews, I need to start taking better care of myself. Plus, I'm known for how tired I am all the time. I mean, granted, I work my ass off regularly and run for about 16 hours a day, but when a 16 year old tells you that "you're always tired," it's time to fix it or quit bitching.
So, I've joined e-diets, and am going to start following their regimen for weight loss. And get the patch from Sav-ons (AGAIN) and do that whole thing. And start going to the gym. Now, that means, I gotta figure out all the stuff I gotta do. What timne, where to shower, what clothes to bring, blah, blah, blah.
Anyway, the bosses are calling me, so I'm going to end it here.
See ya tomorrow.
Light and Laughter,
Travis