Audition Adventures

Ok maybe it's just because the weather is crazy, but I've been having crazy audition adventures!

On Tuesday I had an audition on a studio lot. I wasn't allowed to park on the lot, so I had to park on the side streets and walk on. Except that I parked on the total opposite side of the pedestrian entrance and I couldn't find the entrance at all. I think I ended up walking a good half a mile or so. When I got out of the audition, I couldn't find my car! I kept walking up and down streets, looking for something familiar but I couldn't find my car. On top of that, it was raining AND I was supposed to be back at work since I left during my lunch hour. I freaked out, especially since I was downtown, and kept wandering up and down the streets, with my hot pink pepper spray in hand.

By chance I finally wandered onto the correct street, but I ended up coming back half an hour late to work!

So I thought that was bad, but here's today's adventure:

I wake up at 5am for work and leave at 6am, so I can be at my work (which is pretty far away) by 8am. When you wake up at 5am, it's too early to think about hair and makeup, so I left today with my hair in a high bun and no makeup. Once noon rolls around and it's my lunchtime, I check my phone and I saw that I missed a call from my agency. They have me scheduled for a last minute audition at 2:00. Yep, I had 2 hours to get there but I had work until 3pm. What's a girl to do? On top of that, they said to come hair and makeup ready and wearing short shorts and a tight tee shirt.

What?!? With only 2 hours? It's going to take me that long just to get there and find parking, plus I'm supposed to be at work! How am I going to get the outfit and get my hair and makeup done? And it's freezing cold and they expect me in short shorts?

I begged my supervisor, who is incredibly sweet and accommodating, and she let me go early. I then raced to the mall, grabbed the nearest t-shirt and short short I could find, took them in the fitting room and did my hair and makeup in the fitting room while trying on the clothes.

I get to the audition to find that 1)they made us sign pre-audition contracts locking in the rate we get paid and 2)it's for a feminine hygiene product! Haha I couldn't help but laugh as we were told to go in there, show off our thighs in this weird flamingo like stance, then pretend like we were walking through a field of flowers. So cheesy. Thankfully, even if I book it, it only airs in Taiwan and China so no one here will see it and mock me endlessly

Auditions. Crazy things.