Upon coming home from the gym (1st time this week), I stopped to pick up my mail, and what did I find?! A random letter from Edy's, accompanied by a coupon for a free 1/2 gallon of ice cream! WTF?! Oh why do the Gods tempt me so?
Two weeks ago, I auditioned for an Advanced Auto Parts industrial- to which I sucked.... allow me to elaborate: It's for a corporate training video, one role was a manager the other a trainee. The day was raw and rainy, I showed up just in time for my time slot, and they are never "on-time" so I figured I'd have 1/2 hour or so to get comfortable and prepare. No such luck... no sooner had I hung up my coat (I was actually still in this process) when a woman came out and barked my name- I sheepishly raised my hand and she gestured for me to go immediately into the audition room with a fellow auditionee. She then told us that this was for a very blue-collar type of population, so be a little 'gruff' with it. We than flipped the script and it was my turn to play the manager... I never adjusted- I was as polite and good natured as you could imagine, a poster boy for the church of latter-day saints- too bad this wasn't an audition for that... I left there feeling irritated with myself for not giving it my best and being adaptable, something I pride myself on. It just added to the already miserable day. Long story short, I was doing another commercial this week for $50- something in which I'll never do again, they exploited the HELL out of us! One of my acting comrades got an email from AAP, letting her know she didn't get the part, which was nice of them to do (as you rarely hear back from these types of auditions). I told her about my experience as I actually saw her at this audition two weeks ago. She told me she felt the same way and not to worry about it, they were auditioning tons of people anyway... On Thursday, I checked my email, looking to see if they were nice enough to send my a rejection email as well. They were, only it wasn't a rejection... they offered me a PART! I mean what the hell is going on here? I kick-ass at an audition and I never hear back, I suck the hell out of an audition and I get offered a role? What am I supposed to learn from that exactly??? Ok, deep breaths, easy does it, one day at a time, and every other AA axiom every uttered. I just have to continue to train and do my best, and not allow complacency to set in. Or learned helplessness, that's what I'm afraid of- that I'll lose the edge I haven't even acquired yet. I have to remember to let auditions float away on the wind the second I leave the building, and onto the next one, big boy...
Here is is, our moment of Zen: Diablo III
(what I would be doing with my "down-time" if my computer, and Cory, could handle it ;)
http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in/five-things-know-diablo-iii-193952711.html
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