Wasted time

There are so many times now where I'm out for the day and I have an hour or two to fill in before I'm off to the next of my many things. Today there are three things on the list, which unavoidably turns into a full day in the city. I've just finished the first, my callback for a feature film (hehehe) where I would play a singing teacher. It went quite well, minus the fact that I left the script at home (sitting on the table under where I keep my handbag so I wouldn't forget it). I also left at home the words to the American National Anthem, which I had to sing as part of the callback, and which I probably should know now that this is my country of residence (for the time being, parents, don't fret). Anyway, I was thankfully able to use my trusty iPhone to retrieve the script from my email, google the national anthem and write everything down on the only paper I had - my outback ordering pad. So if someone gets a 'home of the brave' for dessert next time I work, that's why.

So who knows? It went well I think but everyone in this town is great so you can never tell. And singing from an Outback ordering pad can't really be considered 'nailing it'. But fingers and toes.

So now I'm in Starbucks drinking my cheap $1.91 coffee (honestly America, include tax in your prices so nothing ever has to cost $1.91), waiting to meet the husband for a 2pm screening of Hugo in 3D...with a Q&A afterwards with Ben Kingsley and Sacha Baron Cohen. We're getting to see a lot of these special screenings cause they're trying to woo all of the Screen Actors Guild members into voting for their movies in awards season. Last night we saw Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy with a Q&A with Garry Oldman (Syrius Black not "what you talkin' about, Willis"...everyone knows this but me) AND Colin Firth. Yes. Colin Firth. And although I didn't understand a large chunk of the movie cause we were in the front row and the character's faces were in weird proportions, it was still very good. And did I mention that Colin Firth was there? And that we were in the front? Yes.

And then after our screening of Hugo this afternoon I'm off to work. Tips have been pretty poor lately. They're putting more servers on cause everyone's complaining about not getting enough shifts, but that means less tables per shift and less money! So basically I work more for less. Silly system.

I've also been inspired to do some proper writing. At a recent audition I heard some girls talking about epublishing, which is basically just 'publishing' a book on your own using one of the platforms now widely available with the ebook revolution. At Amazon you can easily put your own book up and you get a share of the sale price whenever someone downloads it for their Kindle, iPad, etc. Pretty cool. The audition girl was talking about how she wanted to do kids books but she can't draw. So I had a flash of inspiration. I can write. I can draw. And I'm also kinda into changing the world and helping people, so why not create a series of kids books devoted to teaching kids things like gay people are normal and religion should unite not divide and that kindness always works. I'm sure loads of people would think I'm the devil. But hopefully there'd be a few open minded parents out there who want their kids just to always know these things, from when they're little, so the world can keep changing for the better. Anyway, that's me the idealist with a fun flash of inspiration. Who knows if I'll do anything with it.

Matt should be here soon. So I will sign off and get ready for some more Q&A fun with the stars. Yay!