-At the beach with my mullet
-Shooting on the train tracks with Nar Williams
In other news, I'd love for everybody to keep my sister in your prayers. She hurt her knee a couple nights ago playing indoor soccer. Turned wrong and heard a pop and pain. ER doctors that night said it may just be a sprain or strain, and she's seeing her regular doctor tomorrow. So, hoping for the best that it's just bruised or strained or whatever and it can quickly heal on it's own quickly. It's times like this it makes me sad I live in a different city. It'd be nice to comfort and be there physically for my sister. Until then I can only be the nice brother that I am and make fun of her and crack jokes at her expense over the phone.
Is it just me or is writing cover letters, stapling resumes to headshots, stuffing envelopes, researching and handwriting out addresses on manila envelopes EXTREMELY boring?! Yeah, that was my day yesterday, and will be today. Casting directors beware...you are getting an awesome headshot and cover letter shortly...the answer to your casting needs is about to be solved. So just do me a favor and look at it and not just throw it out. It costs $1.05 to send you that junk, so make my $1.05 count!
On that note, apparently the post office hates actors. It's been an ongoing thing with raising rates and stuff. I found one day in NY mailing headshots that if you write "Do Not Bend: Pictures" the rate goes up. I only wrote that so that the mail carrier would be nice and not just shove it and bend and crumple them. Once I found out there was a new more expensive rate...whatever...if you need to jam it in a box, go ahead. So in all my time in NY and now in LA, rates just keep going up and up and up. That generally means more stamps on a single envelope. As if I needed more things to stuff, stick, piece together in the assembly line that is my mailing.
So, I go to the post office the other day. You know the manila envelopes with the clasp? Yeah, the one that is the most normal and standard one? Yeah, that's the one I'm talking about. I generally don't use the clasp, nor do I seal it, I use a small piece of scotch tape to seal it so it's easy to open for agents and casting directors. Apparently, with new sorting equipment that the post office has, tape or even the clasp jams it, so that mail goes up in price to $1.39. That may not seem like a huge amount, but it adds up. Also, it requires 4 stamps rather than 2. I mean, how fun is it to peel and stick 4 stamps to 30 envelopes! The post office woman told me that the best way to get back to the regular price is obviously to buy the 9x12 envelopes without clasps, or physically rip them off (my choice at the moment until I run out of the envelopes I have) and seal them in two places with the lick technique.
LAME! But I do what has to be done for my career. So enjoy my hard frick'n work agents and casting directors...a lot of "love" (obvious sarcastic moment) went into them.
