UGH and DOUBLE UGH
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stoney321I have a locked down FB for a very important security reason. I don't use Twitter much. I DO NOT WANT ANYTHING HERE REPOSTED ON EITHER SITE. They are separate for a reason. Again: I hate this new feature of LJ and that you can't opt out (even though they say you can in the FAQ) and I also don't use Firefox, so the Greasemonkey add-on won't work for me.
DO NOT REPOST ANYTHING I HAVE HERE OR ANYONE ELSE'S COMMENTS HERE TO YOUR FACEBOOK OR TWITTER. I will ban you from commenting, that's how serious this is to me.
In other ugh news, we won't be getting plaster for the pool in time for a Labor Day party, so I'm bummed. There are backups with the crew, apparently. And while I'm glad that it won't be done unless it can be done right, I'm still sad face at my plans not coming together the way I want. This is pushing back landscaping, etc. etc. Oh, well, what can you do?
You can can up more tomatoes and make cookie dough, that's what you can do. Plus, that helps you avoid the pounds of laundry needing to be done.
Oh! Two things I forgot to mention earlier this week. I got a call from my agency to go to a commercial shoot on Friday. it's one of the types of gigs I love - they look on my agent's site, saw me, and said "Hire her." YAY. No information was given beyond me being a waitress for a scene. Ok! EXCEPT. It turns out that it was for a political campaign, but I didn't know that until I was already in costume and waiting to be filmed. BOO. I don't like doing political ads because it's usually for a party I don't support (i.e. the Republican Party) But I'm not going to be a jerk and make my agent and myself look bad by walking out, so I grinned and suffered through hours and hours of hearing about the jerk wad "liebrals." UGH.
Also, I was working alongside three very old gentlemen (they weren't with my agency) and one was a dirty old man that kept hitting on me and I kept showing him my wedding ring and saying NO THANKS. Another was a complete bore and wanted to one-up everyone's stories as we passed the time. And the last one told me I was going to get fat when he saw me eating a cookie from the craft services table. 1.) It was the first thing I'd eaten all day, 2.) it was ONE EFFING COOKIE and 3) Eff you, dude. Eff you in the b-hole.
I said as he walked past me (he literally said it as he passed me, and said it in a "tsk, tsk" voice, I said, "Well, you're going to get dead, so..." He had a hearing aid and didn't actually hear me, lol. WHAT THE HELL, OLD MAN.
One positive thing was the place we filmed at - beautiful ranch location - had a resident barn cat, a big ol' grey-striped Tom. So affectionate and kept hopping up in my lap as I sat in a chair (they changed me from waitress to cafe patron.) Fortunately my back was to the camera, so they didn't catch it. :) Also: I brought my Kindle because commercials are all about hurry up and wait, and because my back was to the camera and my job was to turn pages in a magazine (a tool catalog, omg) I just slipped my Kindle in there and read books all day. The producer said that was the smartest thing she'd seen, and she'd remember that for future projects. Hah.
I do think I need to take a break from auditions for a month or so. I just don't have it in me right now to constantly get rejected for jobs because of my looks/ability/whatever and my inability to properly network because I'm a full-time mom. It's a pretty brutal profession. I mean, I get told by old men in diapers that I'm going to get fat from a 2 inch chips ahoy. :/
DO NOT REPOST ANYTHING I HAVE HERE OR ANYONE ELSE'S COMMENTS HERE TO YOUR FACEBOOK OR TWITTER. I will ban you from commenting, that's how serious this is to me.
In other ugh news, we won't be getting plaster for the pool in time for a Labor Day party, so I'm bummed. There are backups with the crew, apparently. And while I'm glad that it won't be done unless it can be done right, I'm still sad face at my plans not coming together the way I want. This is pushing back landscaping, etc. etc. Oh, well, what can you do?
You can can up more tomatoes and make cookie dough, that's what you can do. Plus, that helps you avoid the pounds of laundry needing to be done.
Oh! Two things I forgot to mention earlier this week. I got a call from my agency to go to a commercial shoot on Friday. it's one of the types of gigs I love - they look on my agent's site, saw me, and said "Hire her." YAY. No information was given beyond me being a waitress for a scene. Ok! EXCEPT. It turns out that it was for a political campaign, but I didn't know that until I was already in costume and waiting to be filmed. BOO. I don't like doing political ads because it's usually for a party I don't support (i.e. the Republican Party) But I'm not going to be a jerk and make my agent and myself look bad by walking out, so I grinned and suffered through hours and hours of hearing about the jerk wad "liebrals." UGH.
Also, I was working alongside three very old gentlemen (they weren't with my agency) and one was a dirty old man that kept hitting on me and I kept showing him my wedding ring and saying NO THANKS. Another was a complete bore and wanted to one-up everyone's stories as we passed the time. And the last one told me I was going to get fat when he saw me eating a cookie from the craft services table. 1.) It was the first thing I'd eaten all day, 2.) it was ONE EFFING COOKIE and 3) Eff you, dude. Eff you in the b-hole.
I said as he walked past me (he literally said it as he passed me, and said it in a "tsk, tsk" voice, I said, "Well, you're going to get dead, so..." He had a hearing aid and didn't actually hear me, lol. WHAT THE HELL, OLD MAN.
One positive thing was the place we filmed at - beautiful ranch location - had a resident barn cat, a big ol' grey-striped Tom. So affectionate and kept hopping up in my lap as I sat in a chair (they changed me from waitress to cafe patron.) Fortunately my back was to the camera, so they didn't catch it. :) Also: I brought my Kindle because commercials are all about hurry up and wait, and because my back was to the camera and my job was to turn pages in a magazine (a tool catalog, omg) I just slipped my Kindle in there and read books all day. The producer said that was the smartest thing she'd seen, and she'd remember that for future projects. Hah.
I do think I need to take a break from auditions for a month or so. I just don't have it in me right now to constantly get rejected for jobs because of my looks/ability/whatever and my inability to properly network because I'm a full-time mom. It's a pretty brutal profession. I mean, I get told by old men in diapers that I'm going to get fat from a 2 inch chips ahoy. :/
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Date: 2010-09-01 03:15 pm (UTC)I Just noticed those options for facebook and twitter. Like really? I don't even want 80% of the people on my facebook even knowing I have an account on LJ!
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Date: 2010-09-01 03:32 pm (UTC)This. Seriously. O_o
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Date: 2010-09-01 03:18 pm (UTC)What pains in the NECK.
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Date: 2010-09-01 03:36 pm (UTC)Make that three. Harumph!
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Date: 2010-09-01 03:45 pm (UTC)I didn't know that you could post to Facebook from here! That makes me feel pretty uncomfortable since I've always kept this identity away from most people I know IRL. Ick.
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Date: 2010-09-01 03:50 pm (UTC)Yeah, it's a new feature LJ has added, and didn't add the ability to opt out. BOO.
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Date: 2010-09-01 04:39 pm (UTC)I haven't seen one person who's happy about this, so hopefully, due to so many pissed off users, LJ will pull its head out of its ass and get rid of this ridiculously privacy invading "function".
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Date: 2010-09-01 10:06 pm (UTC)The number of people that buy this site and yet have no idea the point of LJ is staggering to me.
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Date: 2010-09-01 04:50 pm (UTC)I don't know ANYONE that thinks this new thing is a good idea. WTF?
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Date: 2010-09-01 04:51 pm (UTC)Bwahahahaha! Sorry I missed that one. You rule.
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Date: 2010-09-01 05:07 pm (UTC)cookies!commercial! Addition to the resume and all.WRT the crossposting? Yeah. I purposefully keep LJ and Twitter SEP.AR.ATE.
p.s. send me a copy of the commercial if you can.
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Date: 2010-09-01 05:29 pm (UTC)SEPARATE FA LYF!
(I rarely get copies of them. BOO.)
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Date: 2010-09-01 07:48 pm (UTC)I think most of us here want to keep them far, far away from each other.
I guess I shouldn't be surprised that your agent didn't tell you it was a political ad but I still am. Seems to me that there are probably many actors who would feel as you do (about participating in an ad for a politician they don't care for). And what's with all the weird old guys?! Not one but three! Oh well, good thing you had a nice kitty to make friends with. :)
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Date: 2010-09-01 08:27 pm (UTC)Well, it was for a GOP candidate, so of course it was three old white guys, right? :D Oh man, the kitty was SO SWEET. Huge huge huge and just a purr-lovings factory.
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Date: 2010-09-01 08:20 pm (UTC)Boo for Facebook and Twitter on LJ. YOU GOT YOUR BULLSHIT IN MY PEANUT BUTTER. Facebook is for the politically correct canned information fed to parents, relatives, and occasionally friends you're not actually that close with. The telephone is for sharing anything deeper with those people. I have no idea if Twitter honestly serves any functional purpose.
AND LJ IS MY SAFE PLACE.
Hopefully someone will figure out a plug in or something to turn this ish off.
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Date: 2010-09-01 08:28 pm (UTC)NO FB IN MY LJ AND VICE VERSA. I know there's a greasemonkey add on for FF users, but I'm on Chrome. Booooo.
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Date: 2010-09-01 11:59 pm (UTC)(remember, I might end up seeing it!)
A TOOL CATALOG
In other news I AM FINALLY BEING RAINED UPON. GLORY GLORY GREAT DAY IN THE MORNING.
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Date: 2010-09-02 01:30 am (UTC)A TOOL CATALOG. It was all they had on hand. Fortunately I didn't have to look at welders and tractor parts as I brought my handy dandy Kindle.
RAIN! SO MUCH RAIN!
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Date: 2010-09-02 01:40 am (UTC)We even got a RAINBOW!
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