A little busier, not much change just yet

It's been like a week! The reason I lag a little bit between entries is that the individual occurrences don't really feel like enough to write about on their own, but once I get a few I feel like I can pound out a good, solid entry. The thing is, occurrences tend to be few and far between, so it takes a little while to build things up. Fortunately, I'm ready to go today.

Last weekend Justin offered me a chance to go the Dodgers game, and I jumped at it. Major league baseball! The home team! The possibility of tailgating! I hadn't been to a baseball game since I was old enough to drink, so it was a new and exciting experience. Justin hooked me up with a Dodgers shirt so I wouldn't look out of place, and we grabbed his friends Blake and Gary and went to the stadium.

It was a solid game, we won and I got to see two home runs. I was told to try a Dodger dog, and while I don't think I'd do it again, it was an important part of the whole atmosphere. Two days later, Jim said that he and Karen were going to another Dodgers game and asked me if I felt like coming along, but I don't think I'm the kind of person who can attend more than one big sporting event a month. It was a lot of fun though, and when I figure out whether or not we're in the playoffs, I bet we'll go again.

Oh yeah, I had an audition last week for this guy's thesis project. I was supposed to show up at 7:30 but I got there a little early, and didn't end up going until around 9. I got to talk to the other people who were auditioning, and they seemed like a good bunch, though they didn't really have much to say. The audition itself was a lot of improvising and body language rather than reading lines, which was refreshing but a little awkward. I did not hear back from them, however.

I went out with Billy and his girlfriend Lindsey on Thursday, which was nice and relaxing. We had lunch in little Tokyo and then looked at a bunch of shops. He mentioned that John will be in town with Dashboard next week and that we should all hang out, which would be awesome.

Saturday I got up early and went up to Santa Clarita to be a featured extra in an independent short called Death's Door, which is about a guy who somehow has a curse where people around him die, so he just gets a job at a hospital where death is normal and acceptable, and presumably hilarity ensues because it's supposed to be a dark comedy. I got there at around 11:30 when we were called at noon, and spent a lot of the time waiting and talking to this guy Ray who had decided that he hated his desk job and quit to become an actor. We started talking to another guy, David, who was trying to break into things as well as maintaining his circuit as a motivational speaker after he got out of being in a gang in Los Angeles. They were good guys.

There was a bit of a lull, so we just sat and talked and ate free food while waiting for wardrobe to give us clothes, so I went and grabbed A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius out of my car. As I was sitting and reading, one of the other extras asked me about it, and we started talking about literature and authors. A girl sitting nearby picked up on the conversation and soon we had a nice little team going, joking and talking and waiting to go on.

Eventually they threw some scrubs on me and told me I was a surgeon, so I made a point of walking around in the background doing surgeony things (aside from, y'know, actual surgery). It was a lot of fun and I got to see/hear David Moscow act. When I told Sam, he looked him up and found out that he was in Honey with Jessica Alba. He was the music director who discovered her character and then sexually harassed her. He was paid to sexually harass Jessica Alba. This guy is living the dream.

Before we all parted ways, a bunch of us exchanged phone numbers and Kara, my literature buddy, invited me out to Hollywood and Highland where a bunch of people would be after they got off the set. It took me forever to find parking, but we ended up hanging out at the Geisha House, a sake bar/sushi restaurant. I ordered some sake, and it came out in a carafe with condensation on the side. I had never had cold sake before, so it was a learning experience. When we parted ways, I gave Justin a call to see what he was up to, but I guess his phone wasn't handy so I just went back to the Vititoes and crashed.

Now it's another busy week of sending out dozens of resumes and going to apply wherever I can. Billy told me to look over my resume and maybe try to rework it a little, and when I did I realized that my work experience was upside down, with the oldest job first. How the hell did I mess that up?