I got a call in the latter part of Monday afternoon with my call time for Tuesday's industrial shoot. Oh. This was the first I'd heard about it being the next day and I'd already scheduled a very full day; which included a meeting with a coach and with my agent on the opposite ends of LA. Fortunately, my calltime was 6pm in Hollywood so I didn't have to reschedule anything.

I received the script at midnight (well actually, around 5am when I got up the next morning) and it was all improv so I didn't have to memorize any lines. Cool. Unfortunately, there weren't any wardrobe instructions. I called the CD and was asked to bring some business attire. I was to play a business partner and the script indicated I was of the trendy variety. So, I hedged my bets and brought a selection of both traditional and trendy business clothes.

A rarity of Southern California in September, it rained on and off during the day. This made for some delays and interesting driving conditions. For whatever reason, even the slightest bit of rain just freaks LA drivers out.

I met with the coach and it went well. I'm going to work with her to get things moving professionally. I'm at a good place craft-wise but need to move to the next level in my career.

I got a message from the industrial's costumer around noon asking me to bring an unstructured jacket with me if possible. Since I'd already left my house for the day (and didn't have one anyway), that wasn't going to happen. But, I had some time to kill so I stopped at some upscale thrift stores. I found a really nice Banana Republic jacket for $20 that I thought could work. If not, I could use it for other things.

I met with my agent to discuss photos. We've been together about three months and, though she's submitting me a lot, I'm getting few auditions. My photos are admittedly pretty good. They aren't incredible and they aren't bad either so we're working on figuring out the problem.

After grabbing some dinner, I drove to the industrial shoot site. For filming, I ended up wearing my own jeans and two shirts & a jacket the costumer brought. It was an easy shoot that took about three hours in total and consisted of another actor and I have an argument over some invoices. We improv-ed it about 15 times and it got more heated each time we did it. The crew was all really nice and the whole thing was pretty painless. If only all shoots were that easy.

I got home around 9:45pm and crashed on our loveseat halfway into The Daily Show. It was a long day and it was nice to be home.