Writer's Strike

I found a video on youtube today that deals with the writer's strike. It is a spoof, made by an independent production company but it is very funny because a lot of it is true. Also, it deals with both sides of this issue. If you'd like to see in a satirical way what is going on in Hollywood right now, watch this four minute video. A word of caution, there is a little violence in it. CLICK HERE TO WATCH

Ya snooze...

Yesterday morning, my sleeping roommate got a call that the agency that he works for was looking for someone to work the front desk, starting immediately. They asked if he happened to know anyone who might be interested. I was interested because it is a flexible paid position and they said they were fine with working actors who had to leave for auditions. He got the call around 10AM but didn't give me the message until noonish.

Within two hours, they had filled the position! He put my name in anyway just in case the new person doesn't work out, but we'll see. That just goes to show how even during a strike how quickly this industry moves. If you aren't always running to keep up, you will get left behind.

College

This weekend with my sister was awesome! I met a lot of my sister's sorority sisters and I finally met her boyfriend. Friday night, Matt, her boyfriend, had his fraternity date party. It was at their fraternity house and was really cool. The upstairs was kind of the "chill area" with one of the brothers singing and playing his guitar and Bob Saget was doing stand-up on the TV.

The basement had two ping pong tables, strobe lights and black lights, a DJ and a dance floor. The funniest part of the whole evening was seeing all of the girls dressed up in heels slipping around on the ice that was everywhere outside. To get from the upstairs to downstairs, walking outside up wooden ice covered stairs was required so that's where most of the slippage happened. One of my sister's nick-names is "Mom" because she was pledge mom semester after semester for awhile so her friend Tony started calling me "Mom 2" and it stuck for the weekend.

Saturday afternoon I went with my sister and one of her best friends, Carly to see the movie "Enchanted". I thought it was really cute and was exactly what I expected from Disney. My favorite part was a huge live musical number that took place in Central Park.

That evening I went to my sister's sorority formal at a restaurant. They had really great food and they gave their "sister awards" away for the semester. Her sorority "little" Steph, who came with her to visit me in LA last Spring Break, kicked off the awards with a dumb blond joke. My sister won "Most Likely to Bleed the Sorority Colors" and her friend Carly won "The Golden Crutch Award" which is one of the most coveted awards they give away.

After dinner there was an after party which was also a lot of fun. It went on from 11PM until about 4:30 AM. At the beginning of the night everyone was still in their dresses but as the night progressed, everyone ran and changed and by the end of the party most of the girls were in sweats.

One other thing that I found really funny was one of the slang words all of her friends use. They use the noun Dump Truck as a verb to describe eating a lot of food quickly. For example,
"wow, Steph just dump trucked a whole pizza", is a phrase that would not be uncommon to hear.

The first picture above is of Natalie, Laura, and Steph. Steph is Laura's sorority "little sister". Natalie is Steph's sorority "little sister" making her my sister's "little little".

The next picture is of Laura's boyfriend, Matt, Laura and me.

The last picture is of Laura and me before Matt's date party.