Wow, I can't believe it's been 2 weeks since my last post! Time is flying by here! Work has been busy. I work on 5th Avenue. 5th Avenue is a beautiful and busy street. It isn't as busy as Time Square, but the foot traffic is comparable to the Las Vegas Strip. It will be amazing to see during the holidays! There seems to be a parade there almost every weekend! There was a parade on 5th Avenue 3 days in a row for Columbus Day. Lots of parade floats, but mostly people just walking on the street that were part of the parade. 5th Avenue had barricades and was closed to traffic for about half of the day. Pedestrians couldn't cross the street to get to my store during that time. They had to walk 4 or 5 streets over and go a different way. I learned the last time we had a parade that I need to walk a different way. Lucky for me a police officer let me run through the parade a few weeks ago so I could get to work on time. I ran right between the military and I think some dancers.:)
I get an hour for my lunch break. I'm not used to it, but it's been nice. I usually read and eat my lunch that I bring from home. It's so much cheaper than eating out. I take a walk outside sometimes. I walked past Jay Mohr on my lunch break last week. He's a comedian and was also on the Ghost Whisperer and Last Comic Standing. It's really cool that no one really cares about celebrities out here. Or from what I can tell, being superficial. I haven't seen one pair of fake boobs, fake blond hair or acrylic nails!! I got a pedicure and manicure for $19.99 last week. (That's $15-$20 cheaper than Vegas.) There were about 20 manicure stations which is ridiculously big for a nail salon. I noticed that no one had acrylic nails and they didn't have the supplies set up for it. I asked my nail tech if they did acrylic nails and she didn't even know what I was talking about!! I'm not in Vegas anymore.
I went to an open mic last week with a friend that used to be in the Short Bus Comics Show with me. It was good to get out and see and meet other comedians. It was fun, but New York definitely has a different style. It will make me a stronger comedian.
School has been exhausting and rewarding too. My Voice and Speech teacher is incredible. Our text book is a book that she wrote. It's a very popular book that's offered on Amazon, etc. Movement class was fun today. We somehow ended up dancing to some 80's and 90's music and my very bad dancing wasn't so bad in the dim lighting with everyone else dancing. Wait, that sounds like how it goes down in a club... Anyhow, it was so much fun and movement is my favorite class. Acting class continues to be challenging, but I'm making progress and learning a lot. My instructor said if we are well rested, we aren't learning enough and getting our money's worth. She said that we should be tired for the next 2 years and not have much of a social life. I see where she's coming from. I work 40 hours a week, my commute can take an hour each way depending on the time of day and walking, I have classes 6 times a week and meet with my acting partner to rehearse 2 times a week. I don't have any days off with nothing scheduled. I've been making it work though. I even found time to go to happy hour with some classmates this week. A few of them weren't old enough to go though! I'm one of the older students. I'm impressed that the younger students were able to figure out what they wanted to do so early in life and go for it! They may be younger and capable of getting younger roles than me, but I feel like I've lived 5 different lives! I wouldn't change my background because it makes me who I am and I have so many life experiences to appreciate and pull from.
Have a great weekend!
xoxo
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