Work

First things first I got the "blogroll" working. I say that like it's hard it turns out I just failed to save it last time. Sadly I may have forgotten your blog. If you know me and would like to be on the blog roll comment with your page address and I'll throw it up. It's mostly for my own benefit since I'm purely a creature of blogger now. Since blogger doesn't have a friends page I'm going to use this to keep up with blogs.

If your blog is friends only no worries, I can still read it from here but no one else can. Oh, the wonders of the internet.

Also, any comments about how "blogroll" makes you think of the British slang for toilet paper, "bog roll", will be appreciated. It would be nice to know that someone else had that problem.

So, housekeeping having been taken care of the two of you actually reading are probably wondering what the heck I've been doing with myself. It seems like I can't manage more than one post a week. I don't know why that is. It's not like I've been doing the sewing, memorizing or dialect work I should have been.

There have been a few developments in my life recently which bear mentioning. Employment has seem the most activity. I will hereafter itemize the list since there are five employers to be mentioned.

Hats Plus- I really enjoyed working at Hats Plus. It's a small company and the people there are super nice. Martin, the owner, was trying to mold me into a copy writer and I really enjoyed learning about hats and selling them. I was kinda good at interpreting people's vague fashion desires. I guess I can thank Donna and the costume shop for that. "I'm looking for a cowboy hat, but not really a cowboy hat. sort of cowboy style but with a flat top and flipped up edges" somehow translated into a concrete idea for me. It wasn't until afterward I realized it shouldn't have. That was literally the last hat I sold. I had been really up front with Martin the whole way through since the offers had come in the same day for him and ACCR so on Thursday I actually quit and Friday was my last day.

American Chamber of Commerce Resources- I started here last Tuesday and it is my current occupation. I am a telemarketer. basically I sell books to keep businesses up to date on labor law. It's a good service we're providing and it pays well. Even though I spend most of my day leaving messages and getting rejected I find I enjoy working there and the environment is pretty good.

The only downside is that the day starts at 7:30 so to make my full required hours I need to wake up at like 5:30 most days. I have yet to succeed. they don't sound like they're going to make life too hard on me for it though. I really like the people there and it's a family owned company. I like that.

Optics Plus- Jim Estrella, the Span Am from faire, referred me to the place where he works and I turned in my resume this morning. Within hours I received a call asking me to come in tomorrow for an interview. I'll have to drive every day if I decide to work there. it's a consideration to be sure. I'm willing to look into it anyway and we'll see how things go.

Tea Essence- I applied there about a month ago and for the longest time thought they might have gone out of business or something. today I went in by chance and found out the entirely mundane reasons they had been hard to catch and had a cup of tea. The really nice woman behind the counter recognized me from when I put my resume in and complimented me on it. She also mentioned how they're still looking for help. I'll be interested to see if anything comes of that.

Tony and Tina's Wedding- I got an e-mail from these guys yesterday asking me to put in an application for their costuming director position. I look forward to hearing from them. Basically it's the only theatre experience I've ever heard normal people refer to when trying to describe ren faire. I'm not sure its a very good analogue but I guess it's a sort of interactive theatrical experience. Anyway, I look forward to hearing more about this opportunity.

In other news.

It's official and public. I will be playing opposite Angela for first and second weekend of faire as Rachel will be playing the queen while Mary is out for medical reasons. So if you were coming to see the person I've been raving about all pre-season She'll be the one in the purple dress. If you want to see the person I've been raving about differently she'll be my wife instead of the marionette as originally planned. That's right, the marionette, I told you it was cool. You know, if I talked about this gig with you at all.

I need to work on faire a lot more during the regular week. Needless to say I usually do not have this particular problem. usually I spend all week doing faire prep to the exclusion of all else. Now here we are two weeks out and I don't have tights, shoes, pouches and haven't solidified my dialect or gotten the script cold. What is wrong with me? I'll be working on that for the next two days.

Well, it's late and I have an interview tomorrow morning so with no further ado here is today's gem of the internet, "Waiters who are Nauseated by Food"



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mH3EEd9RVTo