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O M G !
No one told me that part of my Volunteer duties is being a witness to

Someone else’s PELVIC EXAM!

Last night on my ER shift I’m minding my own business when the verrry attractive  Dr. A motions for me to come over to him, which at first I think is a good thing, until —

I realize it’s because he needs me to be with him in the exam room when his hand is up someone else’s Whooha!

So before I can say –

No way will I be that room, when you do THAT!

I’m in there.
Looking down.
Looking up.
Looking anywhere but you-know-where. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s weird how on some days the world looks SUNNY and on other days it feels very DARK. And it has nothing to do with the weather most of the time.

Am I the only one who believes in me?
Will my hopes actually happen?
Am I idealistic?
Unrealistic?
Delusional?

If you’re an Actor; if you’re self-employed; if you free lance;  if you’re in any creative field whatsoever, you can relate, right?

Highs and Lows —

Some days are filled with REJECTION – other days with HOPE. And when you wake up in the morning, you’re never quite sure which one you’re gonna get. Read the rest of this entry »

are you listening?

Just saw RUBY SPARKS – so honest, deep, true and a little tough when you’re not quite ready for it. The show-stopping risky scene toward the end made me go WHOA big time. Not surprisingly, Zoe Kazan wrote her great scene herself.  She wrote and produced this little Fox Searchlight gem with her BF Paul Dano, who starred in it with her. How ROMANTIC! How PROACTIVE! How GENIOUS!

Directing DESTINY –

Actors (especially YOUNG CREATIVE WOMEN Actors-turned-MULTI-HYPHENATES) have started putting their destiny into their own hands. It seems like it’s the only way to keep from being a puppet, waiting for someone to pull strings.

Next weekend Rashinda Jones’ CELESTE AND JESSE FOREVER  is being released. Jones co-wrote, produced and (incidentally) is starring in it – destiny in her own hands…

Krysten Ritter did it with LIFE HAPPENS.
Maybe we should all make our own —

• LIVES HAPPEN
• CAREERS HAPPEN
• HAPPINESS HAPPEN.

If this is a trend,
I LIKE it.
I want to LEARN from it.
I want to TRY IT!

Gotta admit, I’m LUCKY to live in L.A.

I can RUN ALONG THE BEACH any time I want —
I can BLAST MY MUSIC whenever I’m in my car —
and the weather is pretty RAD.

But let’s face it —
People tend to come down with “gridlock crabbiness” —
Being an Actor isn’t all it’s cracked up to be —
And there must be something more interesting to talk about than Box Office or who the next American Idol Judges will be.

Things that bug me this week and it’s only Monday —

• Non-stop news alerts about how well the DARK KNIGHT RISES is doing despite the tragedy (WRONG on so many levels!)
• Too many trucks blocking my street (HONK! HONK!)
• Carmageddon – Will it EVER be over? (me no think so!) Read the rest of this entry »

i’m listening…

Last night it was pretty quiet on my ER shift except for this Jersey Shore-ish family, “The LOUDS” who made a scene in the Hallways, in Triage, in Trauma — basically everywhere they felt they had an AUDIENCE!
Then —

SECURITY to Room 16 STAT!

—  and like eight security guards rush in to break things up.

But other than that, it was actually uneventful. So I took eavesdrop-notes (on my Post-its) because even though I think I’ll always remember the hospital’s conversational gems, I don’t always.

I don’t think I’m breeching PATIENT CONFIDENTIALITY (at least I hope not!) because I’m not naming any names. Read the rest of this entry »

I’ll miss what she’s having

Nora Ephron was and will always be an inspiration to me on so many levels. But reading her “What I Will Miss” and “What I Won’t Miss“  LISTS has me thinking about my own priorities…

What I won’t miss

• auditions
• meetings that feel like auditions
• indifferent casting directors
• rejection
• juice cleanses
• reconciling my bank statement (ha! as if!) Read the rest of this entry »

Colette Cool

Flew home yesterday on Virgin Atlantic, my new favorite airlines. As I pulled out my copy of Fifty Shades Darker (part 2 of the 3-part rage Fifty Shades of Grey), three Flight Attendants suddenly became my new best friends–

All the ladies are reading it!

I can’t put it down!

I’m fifty shades of red!

It was a fun way to end a fun trip…

Loved London and Paris, even though it was necessary to carry an umbrella at all times. I lucked out on the weather though — it really didn’t rain that much – more like twenty-minute showers. So it was easy to get around and and make lots of new discoveries. For me traveling involves walking-walking-walking. It’s the best way to see everything and get a sense of what’s where. I always lose weight on trips, no matter how good the food is (and in France it IS!).

My favorite time to walk is in the early morning hours when a city is just walking up. Read the rest of this entry »