Today I was an extra again, for a TV show which films here, and maybe it even takes place here, but we sign very fierce forms about not disclosing anything, so I am not disclosing anything.
But I can talk in a very general way about the general experience, which was generally very fun, and also very exhausting. It was an 11.5 hour workday, all told; there was lots of activity at the beginning of it (including! I got to drive my car! on film!) and then lots of no-activity as the day wore on (for me and a few other people) (because yet other people were being lots more active). And since this is the way these things go (and they are very careful to explain to us that this is the way these things go, and we sign lots of fierce forms about that too), I was neither surprised nor disappointed, though I admit I did get a bit bored, especially after I finished the book I’d brought to read, and then could only keep checking my phone obsessively every two minutes, to see if anyone had emailed, or had played a scrabble move.
So that was basically today.
And yesterday I didn’t blog because it had gotten very late, and there wasn’t much to say that was new (I wrote, I did freelance work, I had a real estate meeting, blah blah), but I did do something new: which was I joined a different gym, so that Mark and I can belong to the same gym, and also it was lots cheaper, and has a larger and better pool–well, I think it’s better, it’s a saline pool. Which I looked up on the internet and it’s better than chlorine pools, but it also is a chlorine pool, so I am a bit unclear there. But I did go for a swim there, and though they keep it a tad warm for my liking, I did like all that space. And, of course, being lots cheaper doesn’t hurt either.
(And so when I went to cancel my current gym, they were all, Why are you leaving?, and I was all, Well, me and the boyfriend, same gym, and, you know, cheaper; and they were all, Well if we could match the rate?, and I was all, Yeah we talked about that when I wanted to sign him up here and you were all No Way, so here we are, and besides, saline pool; and they were all, Okay, well, yeah that is much better.)
Hmm. I feel like I’m rambling. Well I am tired. Did I mention eleven and a half hours work? We had lunch at 5pm. LUNCH. So maybe my caloric input is wonky too. Anyway, it’s Friday night, no one reads blogs on Friday nights anyway, right? 🙂