Maybe?

Ok, its definitely getting hard to keep up with this blog since unlike my trip, I'm doing nothing exciting every single day. Bare with me, I'll keep posting, but it won't be anything great.

My routine goes as this...wake up semi-early, like 10-10:30 (yes, that's early for me, especially when I don't have anything to do for the entire day), check the daily film sites, my gmail account, facebook, until Im wide awake and functional. Next I'll plant myself at the kitchen table and begin scouring the numerous job posting sites for the entertainment industry, applying to any job that has any criteria that I may fit. In other words, I'm whoring my resume out big time, hoping for something, or someone to bite on it. From there, I'll pop onto the couch and watch hours of the US Open, but I don't have much invested in it anymore since Roddick was eliminated - I at least have the women's draw to look forward too, Ivanovic and Clijsters are still in it. I'll get antsy, and check my email for job responses literally every hour, hoping for a new inbox message, but thus far, nothing. I'll exercise, eat my lunch, usually yogurt, granola, and an apple, and continue with the USO until Jordan and Rob get home from their jobs. We'll then talk about theirs respective days and hang out. Since they are television production graduates, every night there is some show we have to watch a new episode of, which is nice, keeps me looking forward to each day. When they go to bed, I try to go to bed. I usually can't fall asleep since I've wasted no energy throughout the day. Thank god for our netflix account and that I can stream movies onto my computer. It gives me something to do at night. I just watched Jesus Camp - scary shit. Really, really, really scary and disturbing. Worth a watch for sure.

On a lighter note, I have some leads for jobs hopefully. Next week I'll be meeting with an executive at Fox to sit down and talk about the industry, advice he should give me, he said we'll try and visit some sets to see some shows being shot, etc. He can't "promise" me anything, but we'll see what happens. This is a networking opportunity if nothing else.

A second lead is through my roommate, who is working at Bad Robot - mentioned to me they were looking at hiring more so I applied and there is a possibility I may have an interview with them as soon as tomorrow, if not next week  - we'll see though, it's kind of a big deal, sitting down to try and work for J.J. Abrams.

If none of this works out, I'll start freelancing. AKA working as a production assistant on numerous shoots whenever I can, trying to make a buck here or there.

LA is still awesome and I love it, but the industry itself is draining. Not hearing from anyone about jobs is disheartening. I've applied to literally no less than 40 positions and I haven't even received a "no, sorry, you aren't qualified" response. For as nice and friendly people are out here, the whole job hunting and application process is really impersonal.

Don't mind my bitching. I still love California, just after a summer of working every day from June until August, I'm bored to death having two weeks off.