Should Be At Work.

Last night I hung out with Mollie and Kate and we watched terribly awesome Apatow movies and ate junk food. It felt like college. I needed it after yesterday's interview which got me pretty stressed out.

Am I good at interviewing? Hmm. Well I talk a lot, but not too much. I make sure to answer the question but hopefully in a way that is memorable and charming. I made a L O S T joke and I think they got it. I could answer all of their questions and showed the research I had done about the organization. I made them laugh. I semi-explained how to play the warm up game Zip Zap Zop. They put me through a "situation" and I made up a pretty terrible answer, but I kept my cool and sounded really apologetic and nice. What they were looking for? Hell if I know. I don't find out about this one until April so, great.

We had a Teacher Artist Training at the Rep this past weekend and there were a ton of left over bag lunches. It always makes me happy when I don't have to buy food and can just eat off of the Rep's dollar. That'll be ending soon too. I might even have to go to the grocery store. WHAT?

My friends from Iowa get here on Monday night and I'm so freakin' excited!!!! Amanda, Justin and Aditi are coming on their Spring Break. I have really good friends. 

I should probably stop procrastinating and just go down the hill to work. It's just so darn cold it makes me want to not get out of my bed. 

Daylight Savings Time, I hate you. Love, Kiki

Stiff Upper Shoulder

When I search for jobs on my laptop I tense up my shoulders. (Probably tense from the impending doom of not having a job) I don't mean to do it, it just happens and it's starting to hurt. Maybe I should stop. 

I'm returning 6 movies to the library today. I didn't get a chance to watch a single one. Talk about a change from when I first moved out here and was averaging 3 movies a day. At least I've grown in that respect.

We had a company meeting this week at the Rep. People all over the building are just freaking out about it. It's been a sad place to work this week. I'm trying to help people remain upbeat. We need more dance breaks and more departments than just Development taking Rum shots at 3:00pm everyday. I kid you not. 

Talk Irish got extended and apparently our Managing Director said that it was a great example of what Audience Development should be. Too bad stuff like this didn't happen during my whole internship. I'll get to perform it a couple more time and even *gasp* get paid $50 for one of those performances so, here's to becoming a teaching artist. Maybe?

LOST is still amazing. When is there a new Office? I really want to watch Megan Mullally's new show. She's my role model.

I bet this was more fun to read when I was happily employed and discovering a new city. I STILL blame the government. 

Where's the Pepto?

Well I sent off about 5 resumes in the last couple of weeks. I talked with one company in Seattle today and set up an interview for Monday. Another summer stock theatre in New York also sent me an e-mail requesting an interview. My stomach can't take this. It all makes me so frickin nervous, hence why I'm still awake on a work night. It's fine. I'll live. 

In other awesome news my Talk Irish with Kelly Warm Up is apparently taking the world by storm. Usually our Warm Ups are lucky to get about 30 people in the Rotunda. I'm averaging 65 a night and there is always standing room only. Jerry Manning said that my work was "excellent." Now cast me in Rent, ho. 

I worked a ton this weekend. Hopefully I can come in late and leave early a few times this week. Every now and then I worry that I'm going to completely burn out because, oh I don't know, I'm selling my soul to an organization that can't hire me for the long haul. But what good is coming in late if you still wake up at the ungodly hour of 5:30am?

Wow, this post sounds so jaded. I'll work on keeping it upbeat. I blame the government. 

Bop Boop Ba Doop

I love Gmail chatting. I'm talking with Amie right now and it is ever so delightful. Why doesn't everyone have it? Get out of your log cabin-esque Yahoo mode and join us enlightened folks on the other side. You'll have more storage space and friends to sit with in the lunch room. Bonus.

Happy Oscars day! I didn't get to watch any award shows this year. I don't think I missed out with the Emmy's. They sounded LAME. No one cares about the Grammys. I tried to watch the Golden Globes but something came up. And the SAG awards were on a bad weekend. But I'm pumped about tonight. I'll watch them over at Jessica's place. We'll have a SlumHOTdog bar and lot's of Milk to drink. We've made Benjamin buttons as party favors along with Sean pins. For dessert we may even eat Meryl Peeps. I'm that cool. 

Predictions: Best Picture-Slumdog Millionaire; Best Actor-Sean Penn; Best Actress-Kate Winslet; Best Supporting Actor-Heath Ledger; Best Supporting Actress-Penelope Cruz; Best Director-Danny Boyle; and none of you care about the rest of my predictions so I'll leave it at that.

Friday night I planned the Communication's Retreat. It was actually just a party at Rob's house but I themed it Mafia Night. I asked everyone to "dress to kill" and come in cocktail wear while we listened to Italian Opera Music and had a delicious Pasta Bar. (Apparently I'm really into planning things with buffet style eating. I should just bite the bullet and go to overeaters anonymous. See I'd even bite a bullet. This is terrible.) Then we played the card game Mafia for three hours. Theatre people are so freakin good at this game. This needs to happen with every group of people that I know. I'm a titch obsessed with it. 

I went to Annex theatre today. I'm going to help them with their Marketing stuff for their next show. We'll see how this goes. I don't really have any more time on my hands, but we all know how much I love being overbooked and overworked. Let's do this. Hopefully once I get started at Annex I can find some other areas to volunteer for them and I think it could be a great way to meet people and work on new plays. So Iowa, so fun. What's really cool about this theatre is that there is no staff. Everyone that works there just does it in their free time and all of the ticket proceeds go to paying rent for the theatre space. It's really collaborative and I'll get to help make decisions on season planning and things like that. Here's to new theatre avenues and long bus rides to Capitol Hill. 

I have to perform my Warm Up this week. I'm all kinds of nervous about it. I just hope I don't say "um" too much and that it is a bit interesting. We'll see. 

In other news: In one week I ate a whole package of Oreo cookies. I blame the government. 

AH!

Frasier. Season Four. Episode Four for the Seesaw. Not only does Megan Mullally (Karen on Will and Grace) make a guest appearance but she actually has the line, "We went to Seattle Rep and saw The Man Who Came To Dinner.

I just died.