Wait, let me say that again: I’ve been super busy.
Sorry, I needed to bask for a moment in the joy of being able to brag about that. I blame the part of me that wants to be a performer for that.
As soon as I got home from Chicago after Halloween Weekend I had an email waiting for me from a woman looking for a babysitter on the Lower East Side. After a month and a week of searching desperately through the job listing on www.sittercity,.com and resonding to at least one ad a day and hearing back from maybe 5% of those families, I found somebody was contacting me when she saw my profile, and not the other way around. Just when I was done looking for sitting jobs because it was the first day of my ornament job that happens.
Anyway, I went in for the job interview, thinking that I didn’t really care if I got the job either way, since I'm not too terribly strapped for cash with my ornament job. I thought it was be a good experience, and wouldn't hurt to go out for it.
First off, let me just say this: you can never know too much about Star Wars. Forget talent, being friendly, or being cute ladies, because my Star Wars knowledge has single handedly helped me more in life that possibly anything else. Well, with the exception of my faith in Billy that is.
Yep, the little boy and his father are true fans. The three year old was Boba Fette for Halloween and his father has a collection of Star Wars action figures. Me and the future intergalactic bounty hunter hit it off as soon as I saw that costume. When he told me “Episode V, Empire Strikes Back is the best movie ever,” (you read that right, he included the episode number) we had enough to go off of to discuss and play for half an hour longer than I was initially expecting I would.
Needless to say, I got the job. And this child, as Billy would say, seems like easy money.
If that wasn’t enough, just a day after I found out I had my second job, I was offered a part in one of the student films I auditioned for a couple of weeks ago. I can no longer take the part because I really need to work that weekend, but it really feels like things are starting to pick up and look up for me in a big way. I’m knocking on wood that Billy is gonna’ be staying on my side through the rest of this Holiday season by keeping that money coming and sending some good auditions my way.
Update: This morning (the morning I started my sitting job) I was also asked by that restaurant from last week to come in and fill in for a girl. Had to turn him down, but I have to say when things get busy they really do get busy.
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