Over the weekend…

• Got a late start on Saturday morning due to an overall feeling of fatigue and miscellaneous errands.
• Had a lunch date with Linds.
• Attempted to watch Scary Movie 4. Attempted being the key word.
• Went to the improv show at school, after which I was feeling rather bummed due to a variety of insignificant factors.
• Did a greatly needed load of laundry.
• Got an equally late start on Sunday.
• Tried desperately to memorize lines for rehearsal that evening.
• Became overwhelmed by the general lack of awareness that plagues so many people here during my box office shift.
• Spent the remainder of the evening

In other news:

• I scored much higher than I thought I would on my costume history test. A 96, as opposed to the low B I thought that I had earned.
• Was cast as the jester (i.e. the part that I wanted) in this year’s scholarship-raising ballet, Cinderella.
• Also was chosen to be part of a quartet in the scholarship-raising musical cabaret.
• Have not been able to shake said bummed mood since I first it encounter it this weekend.
• Am completely buried with work and have no time in which to do it.

TV Guide Magazine + Patrick Dempsey

Patrick Dempsey is featured on the new cover of TV Guide Magazine to help promote the new season of Grey’s Anatomy, which premieres the first episode of the its third season Thursday, September 21 on ABC.

While I am a larger fan of the cover that featured both Demspey and co-star Ellen Pompeo, I am still of the opinion that Dr. McDreamy can do no wrong. I have been waiting with baited breath for the third season to start! Season two’s cliff-hanging finale has forced me to spend my entire summer biting my nails.

I’m so torn, though, because as much as I want to end up with Dr. Grey and several more love scenes like the one on the season two finale, I wouldn’t want poor McVet to be thrown to the curb. And what about the devastated Izzie. What will season three bring for her and Dr. Karev? Also, rumor has it that Sara Ramirez from Broadway’s Spamalot will be a regular on the third season. So I guess that she and Dr. O’Malley will be together for awhile.

Mm, mm, mmm. Thank God for primetime television.

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In which Jonny gets stressed.

I. Am. So. Tired.

This past week and a half has blurred together into one large day. The hours that I should be sleeping at night have been reduced to mere power naps (and believe you me, they are none too powerful) between school work, my part-time job and rehearsals.

I keep having anxiety attacks about this summer. What am I going to do if I don’t wind up with an internship? Am I going to have to spend the entire sitting around at home? Do I stay at school? How will I support myself?

I am still in the research part of the process. After searching Playbill today, I found some interesting leads. Need to talk to Dad about his LA contact; might have found some other universities in NYC that provide cheaper summer housing.

If I am able to land an internship with 6 hours of course credit, I will be able to qualify for financial aid- which means more loans. I fear that this is the only realistic way that I will be able to support myself for an entire summer in a major metropolitan area.

I have come of the opinion, however, that educational loans, in my situation, are a necessity. If I accrue debt in college, it just meens that I have to do something wonderful in my life in order to pay it off. Besides, I’ve added up the numbers, and the amount of debt that I plan on having when I graduate college is only a fraction of what others will pay at larger universities.

Where’s my anonymous benefactor when I need him!? Welcome to life, I suppose?

Grey’s Anatomy: Season 2

Only about four more days until the DVD release of the second season of my beloved Grey’s Anatomy!

If only words were sufficient in expressing my romance with this show. The DVD set is on presale now at amazon.com, but it won’t hit stores until September 12. Furthmore, the third season begins later this month on September 21. My only complaint about this season is that ABC has moved Grey’s to a more prime primetime. The show will now air on Thursday evenings; between school and rehearsals, I imagine I’ll be taping a lot of season three.

What I wouldn’t give for a taste of TiVO.

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Here we go again

It was about this time last year that I began the initial stages in finding an internship for the summer. I was researching companies, making connects, the whole nine yards. This year? I think I’m burned out. It’s just so much to think about. The biggest deterrent is the money it takes to support an internship.

I really need to get into gear though. I’ve broadened my search into three large metro areas: NYC, LA, and Chicago. I don’t know what it is with my sudden fascination of Chicago, but it’s definitely a contender, so to speak. Primarily, I’m looking for a casting internship, or an internship associated with talent management. This past year, my overall career goals have shifted, yet again, and right now I’m really into casting.

One of the largest dilemmas that I’m facing is the question of where to live. It’s so hard to be located in metro-rural south Georgia and plan on picking up and leaving across the country for the summer. NYU offers summer housing for non-studen interns, and for a mere 4,000 unair-conditioned dollars, that would be an ideal situation. Meal plans and utility costs, as with most dorms, are included.

From what I’ve seen UCLA doesn’t offer summer housing to non-students. I haven’t checked out other universities in the area, but I would assume that most if not all of them are of the same opinion. The same seems to be the case with Chicago, though I haven’t researched it specifically.

However, the internships that I’ve scouted there mainly suggest the use of craigslist to find summer housing. I’d actually really love to work university housing, because (a) it would be easy, and maybe the most affordable option for the summer, and (b) it is such an imposition to ask a friend for lodging for the summer. The last thing anyone wants is a squatter taking up their sofa for 12 weeks- even if I am paying a portion of their rent.

All in all, I feel more lost than ever, which doesn’t look good for me.

This next week I plan on re-focusing my research efforts, and really narrowing down some application choices. I need to rework my resume, as well, because I would like to have all of my applications and cover letters out before Christmas. That way I can spend all of second semester interviewing.

What I really need to do, though, is find where I left my optimism.

Little Miss Jonny

Saw Little Miss Sunshine this past weekend. I was actually surprised at all that it came to town. Typically movies with any thought at all put into them skip clear over us and land in Tallahassee. (Though I’m still totally a sucker for the likes of My Super Ex-Girlfriend, or The Lake House.)

It was something not-what-I-expected. After the opening credits, I was ready to be bored with another pretentious, trying-too-hard-to-be-different film. On quite the contrary, though, I enjoyed the film. A lot, actually. The plot was genuinely unique and heartfelt, and the cast obviously strong. While I’m not ready to say that it’s my favorite movie of year, I still have to say that the film really delivered in terms of unexpected emotional ups and downs, which really highlighted the film’s laugh-to-keep-from-crying point of view.

I imagine that this would stand a chance to get nom’d for at least best screenplay, if nothing else, this year. So there. Buy the soundtrack, too.

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LB3?

Realizing that I’m about two weeks late in writing this, I am none too impressed with the new season of Laguna Beach: Season 3. And honestly, nobody should be genuinely impressed with the catty and generally disgusting happenings of a the young and priveleged; but let’s face it: it’s totally one of my guilty pleasures.

 

Back to school blues.

In preparing for the start of a new semester (ugh), I have decided to compile a Back To School To-Do List, in order to- you know- help with the transition.[NOTE: This is meant in no way to reflect an excitement for the return of class. I just completely geek-out when it comes to schedules and school supplies. I imagine that this is just a byproduct of said...disorder.]

• Prepare a monologue so that I don’t totally embarass myself at auditions.
• Organize my notebooks and daily planner.
• Naturally, I must buy back-to-school clothes that I’ll inevitably reconsider later.
• I’d love to find some new shoes, too.
• Get everything prepared for the start of the APO pledge period.
• …clean out my car.
• START going to the gym. (This seems to make my list every year. I wonder why I have to keep restarting at the gym? Let me ponder.)
• Haircut possibly? We’ll see if funds permit.
• Get recruitment supplies in order.
• Order makeup and ballet shoes.

That should sum it up. Let me state for the record, though, that I am in no way eager to go back to school. Well, maybe like the first day, and then that’s it. Turning in my two weeks’ notice. The one good thing about the start of school is money. Cold hard cash. Er. Cold hard excess check? That’s more like. Then I can support my habits. (Habits, like: Taco Bell, GAP sales, Hollywood Video rentals.)And the countdown continues.

Oh! And does anyone have one of these? And- you know- possibly an invite?

A new start.

My job for the summer is over, and it was what it was. It was definitely a good experience for me, and it will hopefully serve as that extra “umph” that my resume needed. I met a few great people along the way, and learned some valuable lessons (include the truth that one can never underestimate the power of the occasional online-survey to pass the time).

I was also able to speak with my advisor about my desire to explore the field of casting. He has agreed to, budget permitting, allow me to accompany the school’s summer at both SETC and UPTA to get a hands-on approach to casting. That, along with GTC and Thespian Conference, will hopefully make my school year exciting, and very busy.

I’m trying this new thing: starting over. I feel like I’m stuck in this mid-collegiate rut, and I just need something, or someone to shake things up- startle me into breathing again. The latter, mind you, would be the preferred option. That, though, is neither here nor there, and most certainly not something into which I will delve right now.

The summer is slowly dwindling, and in mere days I will be embarking on my first year as an upper class man. My junior year of college will commence on Monday. I’ve spent a lot of time this summer dreading it; but I’m beginning to realize what I have to look forward to. New people, old favorites as well, new challenges, new experiences, new memories. But most importantly, the year will offer new chances to discover who I am and where I am going.

So. This is part of my new start.