A lot keeps happening I just don't have the energy to keep the updates coming daily so by the time I get around to it I have a mountain information to convey, so I apologize for that...not saying it'll change just letting you know I'm aware of the flaw in my format.
I guess the first bit of news is that on Monday I have my call back for Jekyll and Hyde. I might have told you that already but what I didn't say is that I found out the call back is really just an excuse to find out if I'm an asshole to work with and that I basically have the job. an hourly wage in order to act...it's not Broadway but it's a job and it is something I'm going to enjoy.
Last Tuesday I went to the open mic night I heard about at the Jekyll and Hyde audition. Penny's Open Mic is in a small theater that is literally underneath St Marks Place (a street in the east village) and the theater is called poignantly "Under St. Marks". It is a safe place filled with art enthusiasts and artists that people can come to and work shop there material.
I saw brilliant comedians, moving musicians, dynamic story tellers and a few acts I'm not sure how to categorize. I didn't perform but I plan to next week. The people at this place where really amazing to hang around. Think of all of your outgoing funny and chill friends getting together every Tuesday to put on a show with 4 dollar tall boys and you have pretty much what I experienced on Tuesday.
After the show (which ended at around 4 because they go until everyone who wants to perform does) I joined a few people for breakfast and enjoyed a really great conversation.
I also discovered something amazing. a block away from my house is a deli. These delis are all over the city on almost every other corner, they are not what you would think of a deli they are a deli/ convenience store. I was walking home at 5 in the morning and went in to buy some crackers to eat when I realized that this deli served sandwiches.
I ordered an egg and cheese on a hero and watched a man clean is flat iron grill, crack two eggs, beat the eggs, fry them up, melt the cheese and put it on the toasted bread...it was amazing and it wasn't gross processed nonsense from Mcdonalds and I am now addicted.
Last night was the last night at the Nightmare house. If you go to a haunted house go the last night. This night was epic we destroyed minds and came dangerously close to something that could be considered illegal. It was epic and I think I may have made a woman have a mental break.
Drinks came after the show and we went out with a bang. I am going to miss this family. The Nightmare House was there for me in my darkest hour, they were family when that is all I needed, and they are some of the greatest people you could hope to meet in the big apple. I am so happy that the bulk of my New York experience thus far has been that house. If you are going to build a network of people who care about you and who you care about working at that house was probably the best thing I could have done.
I am in a transition period but what else is new? It seems like I have been transitioning for the past 2 years and I guess that is what my 20s is about but it is so exhausting.
The emotional trauma of mom dying is effecting my personal relationships and is making me doubt every step I make. I am about to transition jobs again, I am trying to find a new place to live in before I get kicked out of this one...I need quiet the problem is that isn't in the cards for me.
Perhaps quiet isn't what I need seeing as quiet doesn't seem an option...we do what we have to do to get by and that is where I am today. Today I am going to get the second care package my mom sent and try and spend the rest of the day having fun.
Wish me luck.
I love you all
KH-
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