Miya rocking it with her snowboard

I really can’t believe I have any time to type this at all, but it has been so completely off the hook insane lately that I think writing about it might calm me down.

So, I have been doing a lot of video work for my day job, which has been both really fun and fulfilling as well as completely crazy-making and stressful. It would be one thing if I was shooting down in LA, but many of the shoots are up in Northern California, in Mountain View, where our company’s headquarters are, which is where many of the executives I am interviewing work. So this means I have been having to do these crazy day trips where I fly up in the morning, do my thing, then fly up at night.

Now this is not so bad, but it is clearly the busiest time of the year in terms of my acting and my two lives have been completely colliding the past few months. It’s been an incredible challenge, I have to tell you. My work has not suffered, but wow, I have really been pulling some rabbits out of quite a few hats.

We had one interview that we had to reschedule, which was kind of a pain, then at the last minute it was cancelled, which I thought was fine because then I could be around LA just in case an audition came along. Then it was scheduled back on again. Now, I have been annoying my agents with some “book out” messages at the beginning of the month, and I had to send out some correction emails because of the rescheduling, so I didn’t want to send yet another email saying “Yes, indeed, I am going to be out, sorry about that,” just because everyone is busy enough with hundreds of other clients without my having to constantly update them on my schedule. I mean, I told my commercial agent just because we were already talking about other things, so it was fine, but I didn’t want to bother my manager and theatrical agent with yet another email during pilot season.

So, I take the 8am flight to San Jose and everything is fine until turn on my phone. WHAM! Voicemails and texts galore--Call me immediately even if you are in a meeting! says my manager. This is bad. This is so bad. I call him up and he needs me in LA at 2:30, one hour before I am shooting in Mountain View. He needs me to audition as a season regular for a new pilot. My world falls apart--the call I have been waiting for for years and years has actually come and I can’t make it.

I am obviously upset and freaked out, and am in a terrible mood as they try to figure out how to push my appointment back a day. Then it hits me--why don’t I tape my audition? I am taping anyway, I’ll just do it real quick before we do the real shoot! So, long story short (so long), we are able to tape the audition, edit it, compress it down and post it to a website. I have never worked so fast in my life, seriously. Everyone is happy. We even have a little birthday celebration for a co-worker, which is great until my manager IM’s me, “they are passing on you, it’s not strong enough.” I am literally reading this as we singing happy birthday. I am devastated.

Skip ahead a week. I am back up in San Francisco doing another media event just for the day and part of the next, returning that night. Everyone knows I am booked out and I have gotten over that last audition snafu. My phone rings. That casting director that passed on me wants to bring me into the office!! Yay!! But he wants to see me the next morning!!

You can imagine how frustrated I was. I couldn’t believe it--here I was getting second chance and, again, I am not in town. Thankfully, after many calls and hours of teeth grinding, they are able to see me when I get back to LA. The audition went well, I did everything I wanted to do, but, alas, they passed. Again. But who knows, you know? I am half-expecting to get a call on Monday while I am snowboarding saying they want me there in an hour.

It’s all fine, though. I just had another crazy day that ended in a very last minute audition that was squeezed in because I couldn’t make the one on Monday, when I will be snowboarding. Not to mention that I might be called in for a callback on Tuesday, when I will be snowboarding, or Wednesday, when I will be driving back to LA from snowboarding.

I need to snowboard only in the summer. That’s the only time I can do it.

More pictures and stuff later, I just need to pack now!