After about an hour and a half of submissions, my cover letters go from this:

Hi, my name is Michele McNally and I would love to be considered for this project. I have studied improv with the Upright Citizens Brigade and have extensive experience working on student films. I'd really appreciate the chance to audition. Thanks again! Michele

to this:

I do a great nerdy-but-secretly-pretty girl. Just wait till you see me in a pair of thick glasses with my hair in a ponytail, like the first half hour of "She's All That." I totally get it.

True story. Consider this my apology to the casting director that is going to open that cover letter in the next 24 hours. Good luck with the rest of auditions.

I greatly dislike not being able to go to auditions because I can't get my lunch shifts covered.

It would be one thing if I was in a rehearsal or shooting a film at the same time as said audition, but knowing that instead of doing a monologue, I'd be trying to up-sell a Ketel One and tonic makes me want to hurl.

BUT even if I don't get the shift covered for my audition on Sunday, I did get Tuesday off, so I can definitely go to that one. Woot.

Doesn't change the fact that if one more person orders a shrimp parmigiana at 11:30 in the morning, I will lose my breakfast, I'm not even joking.

Drawing the Line

Well, the Kentucky Goblin Siege is finished, which means I'm back to the world of auditioning.

That being said, I had the most wonderful time with my No Tea crew, both familiar and unfamiliar, and cannot wait to work with each of them again. And that goes for the puppets, too.

So I'm trying to audition for as much as possible, and I'm submitting for loads of short films. I would really like to get a decent reel together this year to start sending out.

I was supposed to have an audition today for a short film, but I won't be attending. I've bowed out of a few auditions in my life. Usually it's because I worked or went out the night before, and staying in bed for a few more hours is a much more appealing way to spend the morning. But I always fee like crap afterwards.

This time the reason I'm not going is because I got the sides for the audition, and they are definitely rated R. When I submitted to the audition, there was a warning for sexual situations, and my character was described as being "in revealing clothing" for most of the film, but she was also billed as comic relief, so I thought it would be less of a bombshell role than the lead female.

It's not too outrageous, I've seen comparable scenes on cable television, but I can't wrap my head around the thought of actually being the one to say the words without feeling a little twinge of discomfort. So I've decided not to do it.

Part of me still feels like the lazy A-hole who just wants to sleep in, but I think I'm making the right decision.

And on the upside, now Jen and I can go to the earlier showing of Harry Potter. No spoilers, please.