All You Wanna Do is Dance

You don't want to deal with the future,
You don't want to make any plans
Oh, baby, all you wanna do is dance.

Sittercity is a website that allows parents to pay to find babysitters either by placing an advertisment, or, more frequently, to browse though a list of sitters living near by, read their profiles and references, and call them up and use them. This second option only happened to me once, and I have been nannying that young padawan ever since.

(Hughie can't write yet; but imagine the first sentence he can write will be this)

Well, that anomaly was true until three and half weeks ago when I moved to Soho. Since changing my zip code on sittercity, my profile has me down as being less than a mile away from Tribeca, Soho, Union Square and West Village (A.K.A wealthy families with babies galore). I couldn’t be in a better sitting location, unless, you know, I moved uptown.

In the four months that I was living in that L.E.S. rat hole I had had one job offer. Since moving to the 10012, I have become the favorite sitter for four different families. FOUR! I haven’t even been here that many weeks! I didn't even have to lift a finger; they all found me.

Of course, just because my zip code is baller, and has allowed me to become Sittercity’s MVP of Tribeca, doesn’t mean that I’ve gotten a second permanent real job...

I’ve taken to blitzing stores.

I print out the applications to work at those big chain stores on Broadway, staple a cover letter and resume, and I just drop them off with the managers. A clearly written “we’re hiring” or craigslist ad be damned! I will give you my resume whether you're hiring or not. I certainly have all the same qualifications any of those people working at the Old Navy, if not more.

Especially, if you consider the fact that my resume is “enhanced” half the time...

Moving on past my indiscretions, and right on to some good news:

When I started this blog I wanted it to be about my struggles as an actress in New York. I wanted this blog to be a place where I kept my memories of an actress so that I could use them for my subsequent memoirs, books, movies, and E! True Hollywood Story. As of late, is has mostly been a blog about the troubles of being a young girl without a college degree just trying to survive the big city during a recession. That, and occasionally it’s a poor man’s Uptown Girls (R.I.P. Britney) and Nanny Diaries. While those stories are fun in their own right; they aren’t the kind of stuff “True Hollywood Stories” are made of.

Therefore, I am glad to announce that this week marks my return to auditioning. I already have two lined up for the end of week/early next week, and plan to have many more to come. While I may want to dance, Joel, I am dealing with my future and making plans, so get off my back.