What did you do today, aspiring actress?

Found this image on Glob-a-log. It's uncredited, but should be credited.
Thanks to the creator of this wonderful image.


I read my email and checked out Facebook. I got a new shower head with 3 settings, low water waste version by Waterpik, and a Navy shower setting and massage sprayer, and I got a replacement hallway fluorescent lamp, and a partial repair of a dripping bathtub faucet created a century ago - all this awesomely manly work done using tools and a ladder, by the next potential contender for Poet Laureate of Benicia, CA., and, after he left I tried to get to SF to hear my two wonderfully talented friends Kathleen and Lizette read their SF District-winning poetry at the SF Public Library, but I never made it there, because of bad timing and worse traffic. I forgive myself. Hope they read brilliantly to a good audience.

I used the newly available time instead to email my best headshot with name embedded, as prepared by Eduardo, to my local photo printer to see what the first one would look like. It looks like this: For $6 it's gorgeously printed on good stock. I cannot afford to make this en masse, so I headed to Staples and had them photocopied, glossy, and trimmed, 30 for now, and we'll see what to do next. I mailed out 10 of these with my updated acting resume to my agent, Mary, and I hope this helps us both. Haven't heard from her in a while. For the next 60 days I will know it has nothing to do with my photo, at least.

Then I looked around at various websites, as suggested by Eduardo, that let you sign up and create your own comp cards. Faux simplicity, indeed. They always tell us actors that we need comp cards. Do we, really? Well, these sites are not brilliant and I decided I don't need a comp card. An actress with a comp card - sort of like a fish with a bicycle, don't you think (Thanks, Gloria)?

I also used my state of aspirational acting ego to print out a sweet photo of self at home using up that ridiculously overpriced Lexmark color ink, and placed the photo in a terrific looking 5 X 7 turquoise leather look-alike frame sold by the local chic recycling boutique, and made in India, for my wonderful mum.

Happy Mother's Day, ya'll!