Mini-update # 42

After being sick for what felt like months - I am now back and ready to take on the world again.

So what has been happening...

- Lots of days of work... boring I know.

- Auditions, tons of them for a bunch of different commercials, but I haven't booked anything.

- Working hard in Scene Study class, doing two scenes this time, one from "The Seafarer" and the other from "Blue Surge". Both are going great and I feel like I'm making some wonderful break thrus. Working on the simple storytelling, instead of adding all kinds of unneeded actor crap.

- booked our tickets for the cruise Bree and I are going on at the end of the month.

- Even though I haven't been working out, being sick and not eating has gotten me down to 200 lbs... I can hardly believe it... 20 lbs away from the goal and right now I'm not even doing anything! =)

- Going to lots of theatre - saw "Some Girl(s)" at the Geffen Playhouse, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at Long Beach Shakespeare's Goad Theatre, "Death of an Anarchiest" last night at the Unknown Theatre. Which really has gotten me dying to get back on stage. I needed to wait till closer to the cruise to audition for anything, since the cruise dates seemed to fall right in the middle of tech week on anything I was interested in doing. No worries though, I'm going to rejoin the acting ranks after the cruise ends, one way or another.

- watching alot of movies, just saw MotherNight and Chaplin (Just amazing!) last night, saw Vantage Point a few weeks ago (wait and rent it.)

- Heading to Brian Koehler's 30th Birthday party tonight - lazer tag and pizza, the only way to do a birthday!

- Cannot wait for Ironman and The Dark Knight to come out! Summer movies are gonna rule this year!

I think that is all for now. Sorry for being away for so long =)

Peace out!

- J.

This week in action news!

So, this week...

- I had an audition at the Geffen Playhouse in Westwood for Understudies. I did a piece from "Long Day's Journey Into Night" - only had to wait 3 hours, which is good cause I thought for sure I would have be there longer since I'm not in AEA.

- Had an audition for Viread playing a 35 Polish man.

- Did week three of my "Rosencrants and Guildenstern are Dead" scene in my Steppenwolf West class; it went really great!

- Am down to 210 lbs as of Monday

- Have a CD workshop tonight

- finally saw "Eastern Promises" last week

- Am sad Russel Crowe seemed like dick to Bree, now I have to kick his ass. And I wanted us to be friends.

- Am stoked that Bree is still spinning.

- Cannot wait for the WGA to sign off on their deal (looks like the strike could be over in less than a week!)

- Pissed Clinton won CA!

- Cannot wait for Scott and Kel to be in LA!

- Have run out of things to update...

Later -

J.

- PS, set your tivo for this friday's Day's of Our Lives so you don't miss Bree!