I am trying to put the downtime at work to productive use, but I haven’t made a tremendous amount of headway thus far. I’m enjoying this less stressful plateau… I even baked some cornbread muffins last night (how’s that for assimilating).
While I’m technically still doing the improv show for the next few weeks, it doesn’t feel like I’m really doing anything at this point. Of course, this is largely due to not working 16-hour days anymore, while trying to do three shows every weekend. And for the first time in ages I’m not rushing out to auditions or anything… I feel oddly theatred-out. I wonder how long that feeling will last.
In the cool-if-it-could-actually-happen department, I was contacted by a talent agent that wants me to sign with them. I went so far as to go down to their offices and do a cold reading for a commercial… they seem really eager to have me, and I’m eager to sign. Unfortunately, upon double-checking the terms of my work permit I don’t think it’s allowable, and I was pretty certain it would be when I was talking to them. The money isn’t even important to me… it’s not like I’ll ever make enough for it to even approach a legitimate source of income (for me, anyway, if not the IRS). But they require my SSN, so it’s a non-starter. Sucks.
Dan.