Even though it has been over a year (and one more blog-starting attempt) since I've written here, this feels like the right place to pick things back up again. When I started this blog the August after graduating from college, I had subtitled it "a post-grad story." Now, after a year and a half of being "post-grad" in the "real world" (or so they call it) my life is exactly the same. Except that's a lie. My life is totally different.
In 2012 I shot my first commercial, made my first appearance on a television show, and worked on my first project with a multi-camera setup. (Most of this was less fancy than it sounds, but still, it happened.) I was also going to say I voiced my first cartoon but that was so 2011 it hurts. I ended my first real grownup relationship while continuing to sleep in an Ikea loft bed. I traveled to Bermuda and Israel almost for free and rode camels in the desert with a bevy of gay 20-somethings. I got my NYC sightseeing guide license and failed to begin work as an NYC sightseeing guide. I went to Kathleen Chalfant's house, had drinks with Celia-Keenan Bolger and rekindled my love for the [title of show] crew when I saw Now. Here. This. I discovered anti-gravity yoga, went to my first friend-wedding, and worked (...and got wasted at...) my first pet industry trade show. I got paid to dress up as a large banana, and as Super Mario, to teach people how to play snake, pass out fliers in a prom dress, pose as a secret agent, dance with Pop-Tarts mascots at a Gym Class Heroes concert, and to get stepped on by Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen. I was so busy it hurt and so not busy it hurt.
In 2012 I struggled with a lot of things that I think I may write about here in 2013. Or maybe I will write them somewhere else. We'll see. What I know is that I like to write, and not in journals, because my brain thinks in a narcissistic 21st century 20-something thought catalog kind of way. Sometimes I think in blog posts while I'm walking to the train. I need to start carrying a notebook because I always forget them by the time I get to my destination.. Actually, I am writing in a notebook on the train right now. Or, I mean, I was, until I got home and typed this up. I know it's self indulgent and self-indulgently, I don't care.
So anyway, here goes. Let's see what happens 2013. I think we're off to a pretty good start. I rang in the new year in style with an appropriately, but not overly, messy party at my abode, ate lots of seafood noodle soup and saw Water by the Spoonful and The Event of a Thread (both great) with old friends. Tonight I'll be checking out some improv and tomorrow morning I will be going off to work as a banana. I guess things can only change so much in a year.
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| January 6th, 2012. "Does this banana suit make me look fat?" |
