My little black book

I use these (the lined ones) to track all my audition information. A pretty simple, chronological system of notetaking.

Lately, though, it's been used mainly for figuring my vacation itinerary and jotting down notes on hotels and things. Because I haven't had an audition ALL MONTH.

That's insane. I knew it had been a while, but a look at the big blank calendar shows it's been two weeks and two days, which is my longest dry spell since January. Even February, when I took a week off for Mexico, I didn't go that long.

I had a booking last week, yes, and that's good. But this basically means there's nothing now in the pipeline. All callback and booking dates for those old August auditions have surely passed. And with me going away next week, it's looking like it's going to be a while before I'm back in the groove again. (No doubt tons of opportunities will arise for the dates I'm gone.)

It's a very odd feeling, not having been on the Halsted bus in so long. I'm not going to worry too much, though. The worse situation to be in, pipeline-wise, is to have no outstanding checks due for jobs already done. I've been in that situation a number of times. Meaning, even if I booked something the very next day, no acting $ would be coming in for 30-90 days.

So there's that. Well, that and the fact that I just expanded my vacation itinerary to include White Sands. That'll be fun -- sledding down 50-foot dunes of gypsum.