He's a 22nd Century Mannn, or Interviews, Auditions, and Plays--oh my!!

The picture and title will be explained soon...I didn't just put it there because I was bored.
Anyway, I have had a very busy last two days! On sunday I had a job interview for a film crew position, and it went really well! The people making the film had just graduated from a top arts school and they decided to start a film
production company--this will be their first film. They were very nice and there main guy told me something along the lines of, "Well, I definitely want to bring you on and we will definitely be contacting you!" I think that means I got the job? I'm not positive though--I haven't gotten an email yet but I know they were doing interviews for some other positions this week so they may just be preoccupied with that. After my interview I walked uptown to see an off-broadway at Second Stage Uptown with my good friend from school, Courtney. The play was called "The Bad Guys" and it was basically about 5 guys sitting in a back yard talking about their pasts and presents. Of course some conflict comes up--there are girlfriends, war, politics, and, of course, murder to be talked about. It was pretty good--enjoyable but not the best I've ever seen. The acting got better as the play went along and became more intense, but at times it seemed like the actors had trouble getting past the surface, which is disappointing for a broadway show. Let me set a scene for you real quick: Courtney and I are sitting in the front row when one actor comes on stage, followed a minute or so later by another actor. Once I get a good look at him, I realize something. I lean over to Courtney and whisper, "Is that Phil of the Future?" and she looks at him, looks down at the program and then turns to me with an excited smirk on her face. "Yup," she says. And sure enough, it was! The lovable Disney Channel star happened to be in this small off-broadway show that we got to see for FREE because of an acting class that I am taking. How weird / AWESOME is that?! He played the lovable, gay comedic relief character and he's still got it. Not to mention he's still adorable. After the play I went to Redeemer church, located at Hunter
College at 69th St. It was nice, but I'm going to continue searching for the "perfect" church. That doesn't mean I won't end up back at Redeemer though.
Yesterday I had an audition that I got called in for--wahoo, my first NY audition!--for a Children's Theater production at 13th St. Repertory Theater. Yikes...that didn't go so well. I only found out about the audition about a week ahead of time and I didn't have a monologue in my repertoire that was appropriate for Children's Theater, so I ended up picking one from You're A Good Man Charlie Brown that I had done for some workshop about 10 years ago at the last minute. It was really short, so I didn't have too much trouble memorizing it. I guess it was only in my short-term memory, though, because once I got there I just started saying whichever sentence came to mind. The order didn't really matter for this particular monologue, though, and I actually don't think they would have noticed if I hadn't started one of the sentences and then forgotten how to finish it. They had originally given me sides to read, but then after my monologue they said, "We've actually seen all we need to see, thanks!" Ouch! Oh well...there will be more auditions, right?
Later that day I had a job interview for a hostess position at a Greek restaurant on the Upper East Side. I ended up having to wait an hour for the interview because the manager was preoccupied for various reasons. However, once he got out he was very friendly and nice. I guess he had been busy for a little bit TOO long before I came, because we had to have our interview outside during his cigarette break! I thought that was pretty comical, but again, he was otherwise very professional and friendly so I didn't care too much. He said that the job didn't take too much; he just wants someone friendly and personable. He said that I seem like a very friendly and personable person but he is interviewing two more people and he wants me to email him on Wednesday and he will respond accordingly. Hopefully one of my next blogs will have some good news about that!

Back in the New York Groove

So yesterday I moved up to my apartment on the Upper Easy Side! My room is slightly larger than a closet, but hey, it's New York. Last night my parents and one of my roommates (Olivia Kimmel!) and I ate at a Turkish restaurant right across the street from my apartment. Thats one of the things I love about New York---there are so many different types of food! I tried calamari for the first time and LOVED it. Yum!

Today I spent the day with some of my extended family on Long Island. It was quite nice to see them and we ate lunch outside at an adorable little restaurant in an adorable little town, which is always fun.

We got back and ate dinner at a restaurant in my neighborhood called Fetch. No, unfortunately it's not Mean Girls themed--it's dog themed! It was all about comfort food--I'm talkin' macaroni & cheese on the adult menu comfort food. And of course that is exactly what I got. It was delicious and provided for a nice leftover lunch tomorrow :) Oh and one of my other favorite things about New York is the interesting and often hilarious things I hear people say on the streets. We were sitting outside eating and as a woman and her husband walked into the restaurant, we hear the woman say, "I wouldn't mind sitting inside...I don't really like the outdoors." Ha! Good thing she's living in the city, right?

My parents just left about a half an hour ago. I'll see them in a month when I go home, but I'll still miss em'. I have been away from them for this long before for school, but this is different. I'm not in a dorm with all my friends, you know? I am much more alone. I have a lot planned for tomorrow, though, so hopefully that will get me back into the swing of things and I won't actively miss them as much. One of the things I have planned for tomorrow is a job interview--yikes! Wish me luck!

Blog Intro

Sorry Gil, no kitties allowed in my NY apartment building! 

This Friday, June 1st, I will be heading to NYC to live there for the next 3 months.  When people ask me what I will be doing in NYC over the summer, I never quite know what to say. No, I don't have an internship or a specific reason to stay in New York. I'll be taking a few acting classes, going on auditions, seeing shows, and doing fun New York things--I really just want to experience NYC for a while without having to be in school.  Apparently staying in NYC for the entire summer is a pretty big deal, so I figured I'd start a blog to record my experience. So for the next three months, I will periodically be blogging on here talking about the fun things I do in New York, how little I spend doing those fun things--I was thinking about titleing this blog "The Frugal New Yorker"--and just my overall experience. I'm not really sure how to end this, but I feel like I should have some catchy conlusion phrase to end every blog. I really hate conclusions.