Times are a-changin'!

My first post was about being jobless, show-less, and cookie-less.  I fixed the cookie problem by the second post and the results were delicious.

Well, GUESS WHAT?  I have solved the other two as well.

First, my show.  I got a paid chorus part for Night Blue's production of Evita - a brief tour in Michigan to perform with the Michigan Symphony Orchestra, and a run from October through November.  Yay for being paid to do musical theatre!  I also have a call-back for a well-paid show out in the burbs tomorrow, so auditioning has been going well.  An indication I'm doing the right thing?  I think so.

The job bit is slightly more complicated.  After (almost) 100 applications, I finally was hired at Massage Envy Spa as a sales associate/receptionist.  I started last week, and everyone there was so nice and wonderful, but the pay was not ideal and I could only get 20 hrs/week.  That I wouldn't be able to pay rent/save/have any extra was bad enough, but I want so badly to be a significant contributor to our household income, not just a miniscule fraction.  Hard to do as a working actor, ain't it?  (Resounding head nod from about 60% of my friends).

So the job search continued.  Long story short, I got a long-term temp job with Groupon as a Market Researcher, with some data entry.  Better pay, 40 hrs a week, possibility for permanent hire.  Woohoo!  But most of all, it means that, for the time being, I'm a contributor. 

So things are good.  I start Wednesday.  Panic attacks have stopped, at least for the moment. 

And now for a funny story.  We were out this weekend at Madison's Bar in good ol' Madison, WI for a friend's birthday, and I ordered my fav - Jameson on the rocks.  Later on in the evening, I wen to the bar to order another drink, when I woman at the bar calls me over to her. 

"The bartender and I saw you order the Jameson on the rocks....did you drink that entire thing?"

"Um, yeah."

"Holy shit!  We both agreed, that girl's got BALLS"

And there you have it.

K