A Catch 22.
You can't get a job without experience. But you can't get experience without a job. So i finally heard back from that lady at ATL. She said she decided to go with someone with more professional theatre experience (a former intern at that particular theatre actually.) Its understandable and all but it still sucks.
Anyway i finally finished reading "Catch 22". I'm not nearly as far along as i should be on the summer reading list i made for myself. I just only seem to have spurts at a time to read and if i put a book down mid chapter i tend to lose my train of thought next time i pick it up. It was an interesting novel though. It was sort of slow moving and had way too many characters but the dialogue was amazing. I've rented the movie and watched half of it the other night (hmm, i should finish it...) Alan Alda plays the lead character and so far he's phenomanal. I think this book/movie should be turned into a musical. There are certain scenes that i remember reading that i imediatly envisioned characters breaking out into song. I would enjoy seeing a production if someone were to do that. The unrealistically ambitious part of me wanted to undertake that project myself. And i would...only i don't know the first thing about writing music and that seemed to be a problem.
In other news, i did finally go back to work. I figured after over a week i could no longer prolong the inevitable. I flew back up on Monday, sat ready reserve at the airport for a few hours (they didn't use me though so i just sat in the crew lounge and watched monday night football with a couple of pilots.) And then Tuesday night i flew a trip to Grand Rapides, MI. The guys i flew with were insane. Its hard to explain really, but it was like there was this huge inside joke that i wasn't on the inside of. They said they were just really tired and delerious. It never ceases to amaze me how these pilots can fly perfectly fine when they can't even form complete sentences. The overnight was really short but aside from the Wyndham in Harrisburg, PA, the Hilton in Grand Rapides has the best hotel beds ever! (just a little FYI in case anyone were to ever happen to find themselves in Michigan for some reason.)
I think i'm becoming a full fledged commuter this month. If you work for the airline you are either a resident in the city you are based or else you are a commuter. I'd say 70% of pilots/flight attendants don't actually live where they work. In previous months i hadn't been going home much but lately i've been flying home whenever i have a couple of days off.
I flew home on Wednesday and was very excited to have a package from Dell waiting for me.
I had been wanting an MP3 player and was going to get the IPod but i found that Dell has a Digital DJ jukebox and it is $100 less and holds 4000 more songs (the one i got cost $200 which you only have to pay a mimum of $7 a month and it holds 7000 songs!) Its kind of confusing to figure out how to upload the songs but i think i'm starting to get the hang of it. I can put any song that i download off the internet (i have winmx which i find doesn't give you as many viruses as kaaza) and i can put all of my cds on there. The actual device is about the size of a walkman and there's no tapes or cds or anything to insert. It is so cool. Especially for me traveling all the time, i can put my entire music collection on this one thing. So...if you're into electronics and can figure out how to work things without getting too frustrated, then i totally recomend! (i feel like Becca, promoting things.)
So, yesterday i got to go up to Natchitoches. I so miss that place its sad. Since i graduated in December, i went up there in February for Circle K's Midevial Ball then i went in May (i had a couple of days off so i flew into Shreveport at the last minute just to surprise a couple of friends and visit.) It seems like i go every three months because then i went up again yesterday with my friend Mickey who had to go up to get his lease signed on his new place. We only stayed less than 24 hours but at least i got to see a few people. There's a chinese restaurant called Chef Wok and they have the best sweet tea ever and then right across the street is this daquris shop where they have this drink called a Starburst...absoulutely phenomenal. Its crazy how those are the first things you think to do when you get to a place like that (well besides go to Wal Mart, that place is just like a social icon or something.) Most of the people i knew have graduated but my friend Angela is still in her last semester (she got her very own trailor out in the boonies...its cute though!) and then my friend Robin is gonna be teaching GED canidates in Natchitoches parish so she's up there. I think it will be sad when everyone is gone from there that i know.
Somehow just a couple of beverages doesn't seem like good enough reason for a four hour trip.
But anyway...back off to the windy city in the morning. It was in the 50s when i was last there. Every time i pack my suitcase to go back up i have to bring an array of clothes because you never know what the tempature will be. Gotta make sure you're prepared. On the other hand, you don't want to overpack...hmmm, could that be a catch 22??