Funny, I thought all clowns were scary.

Well, it's been 10 days since I have updated and I apologize, again, for the ridiculous delay. A few things:

1 - we moved offices, so that's been fairly crazy. I now work on a street named "Corporate Pointe" (shudder) in Culver City. The good news is that my commute is way shorter, like, 20-25 minutes shorter, depending on traffic. I can actually get here and back in ten minutes if traffic cooperates (ie, is non existent). The space is way more corporate but we have a crazy view of LA:



My group works right next to the window, which is a huge plus, especially during lunch:


So that's all nice.

2. Ever since we actually moved to the new building, I have been out of my head busy. Like, out of my head. Early meetings, conference calls, late meetings, late conference calls...and since they have been having to keep the building at less than 65° all week, I have been freezing. And although I hear that the temperature has nothing to do with getting people sick, I think I am now, actually, sick. I was actually going to work from home today, but they are gutting the apartment building across the way, so we have been waking up to jack hammers and bellowing workers. Miserable. Whit was pissed this morning; she was out late last night at the Mt. Wilson observatory observing things space and I guess she got a cold, too. Fun fun fun.

3. On a slightly more positive note, I have been spending a bit of time playing Halo 3 and it's been super fun. Nick took this shot from last night: It's pretty amazing, the Halo 3 thing, and I have zero time to go into it now, but you can get a sense of how deeeeeply nerdy it is by looking at my player page in the Bungie site. It's odd to say, but the game might actually work its way into being worth all the hyper surrounding it...

4. Acting was crazy slow this week, which is actually a relief, to be honest. The move, which was really freaking me out, actually only adds 5-10 minutes to my "normal" travel time for auditions, and, in maybe a few cases, might actually decrease it. We'll see. My agency has been awesome about keeping the auditions during lunch time, so traffic tends to be pretty light anyway.

Actually, yeah, I have enough time to talk about something that happened last week. I got a message from my friend Kelly suggesting I get in touch with Caryne, who apparently had some news. I gave her a call, and she told me that she has decided that she was going to quit acting and that she and John were going to sell their house and live full time in Las Vegas (John lives and works near there in Pahrumpf), so they could all be together (they have a baby named Audrey). For years, John has been basically driving back for weekends so he and Caryne could be together while Caryne pursued (successfully, I should add) her acting career. But ever since Audrey arrived, Caryne has been spending much more time being a mom than a working actor, which obviously makes sense and is understandable. In fact the whole decision is laudable--leaving LA and being together just "fits" in all kinds of ways and makes a lot of sense for their family. I will admit, though, the news really has made a profound effect on me. Not only will I obviously miss having Caryne around--we have been friends (and have acted together) for many, many years, and having her in LA with me has kind of grounded me, in a way. Acting full time...well, it's basically a life decision, right? And it is nice to have other friends that are making the same kinds of experiences as you, so you at least have some comrades-in-arms in what is, in the end, a fairly frustrating and sometimes lonely endeavor. I regret that we were never able to book a job or do a play together in LA and now, well, I guess it won't ever happen. Caryne was so happy and I was so h

The choice to no longer pursue a professional acting career is always there, hovering behind the scenes. You hear about people "quitting" all the time, and for all the right reasons. I think one of the main reasons I have been able to confidently stick it out for so long is because I have always had another career to focus on when the acting slowed down. But for people who are able to make a living acting, it does become a grind when work starts to dry up. You do get tired of auditioning and not booking all the time. I mean, the past few months has been like that, many, many callbacks and no bookings. After a few years, one has to wonder, "What's the point anyway?" And when you have a truly meaningful alternative like Caryne does, to actually have a life with her husband and child full time...well, there's no argument, really. Still, when she told me about calling her agents and telling her them she was through..so crazy.

I was actually supposed to have uploaded this entry earlier tonight but the app crashed when I tried connect to my server...let's see if this works...

have a good weekend!!