This Week and Last Week

have been quite difficult.

As most people already know, we lost our sweet Butterscotch last Wednesday so most of the week revolved around making it through that terrible ordeal.

But I got back to work the next day and I think it helped, I don't know.

Friday night I went to the Grizzly Bear show at the Wiltern and it was just mindblowingly awesome. They are so incredible live it's almost unbelieveable. It was a really beautiful experience that I think made me feel better about things. It definitely inspires creativity. I went with my siblings and my sweet friend Ty Foster was also there and I ran into a few other people I knew including adorable Davy Franco. I don't know if he remembered Mariana and I or not but he chatted with us for a while which leads me to believe that he did.

Saturday I auditioned for The Theatricians production of bobrauschenbergamerica by Charles Mee and am very happy that I did get cast. I am really excited to work with my wonderful friends who are also incredibly talented artists across the board. bob is probably my favorite play in the world, I just adore Charles Mee and think he is a brilliant poet.

Somehow I never recieved an email telling me that the audition location had been changed so when I arrived at a studio in Santa Monica and no one was there, I called the director, Tracy Woodward. He then informed me that the audition had been moved to NORTHRIDGE because the studio had mold or something. So I had to book it over to Northridge which is basically 20 minutes from my house after I had driven almost an hour to Santa Monica. But everyone waited for me to begin which was very lovely of them and then it was all fine.

The audition was very fun because it was done workshop style, so we sat outside amongst the trees (and spiders) and basically did a read through of the play but getting up and working scenes and doing a few of them over and over. It was fun and hilarious. Until the spiders got me. Now I have these giant, grotesque and painful bites all over my legs and one on my arm. I don't know why insects flock to me when I hate them so. They just went to town on my legs and I have really painful welts on them and have been icing them all day. I'm trying to not scratch but I am terrible about that.

After the audition I had to book it over to the theatre for my closing night of As You Like It. We had a full house and it was a great audience. Had a great show I believe. Though at one point a pot was dropped onstage and it shattered but most people thought it was part of the show since everyone handled it quite will until it was able to be cleaned up at intermission. I was definitely looking forward to having a break because I feel like I have been going nonstop for weeks now. It's just so draining but wonderful and fun and I am so happy to be jumping right into the next project with my first rehearsal for bob being this Thursday. It's not the readthrough though so I don't know what we will be doing. I need to relearn how to rollerskate again. Le sigh. I'm really concerned I'm gonna break some bones this time.

Audition in the morning for BoostMobile. I think in Spanish. Then work work work. Maeby needs some new toys.

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