First Day of Work

Wow! I don't know where to start, other than to say, I can't wait to get assigned my first job. Everything about the program sounds right up my alley—I got a new laptop, a sweet t-shirt, and about 50 pounds of books dictating every contract agreed upon by every union involved in stage, film, television, or commercial production (wait, what?). Luckily it sounds like I'll have over a month to familiarize myself with all of them. Unluckily, however, is the reason why I should have over a month. Apparently, the New York state budget is caught up in the legislature, and in that budget are the tax incentives for the next year pertaining to films being shot in New York. So while that's still held up, a lot of productions are holding off shooting, making job availability terrible for us trainees.

I'm really impressed with the group of trainees that will be going through this process with me. They're for the most part all over the place—though a lot of them have a connection to New England and particularly Boston. They also seem to have all had more experience than I, especially in New York. But they're all good people, so I look forward to getting to know them better.

After work, Brother and I went and looked at the apartment in Brooklyn and, as promised, it had that "wow" factor. The building is a converted, old-timey telephone company building, so it has this cool art deco lobby. Also, as I learned from my mom, her grandfather worked for a phone company while he lived in Hell's Kitchen. She's going to look into it, but I may be living where my great-grandfather may have worked.

Brother and I got pizza in Times Square, and he said it perfectly that Times Square is like Blade Runner. I still feel like a tourist in the City, but I'm slowly getting comfortable with the subway, the traffic, and the overall hecticness of big city living.