Together Again for Haiti

There's this Evanescence song called together again that fans have known about since 2006, but it hasn't ever been heard. All of the die heard ev fans have been losing their minds knowing a song is out that they don't know. So the band made the awesome decision to release it through unfoundation.org for a minimum donation of $5.00. It was a great strategy, and I'm happy to say I donated.

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I'm volunteering as an assistant stage manager for V-day Toronto. That's a global anti-violence movement, specifically but not only for women. They do it all over the world, from New Zealand to Nairobi.
Well, the stage manager is backing out, so I'm getting it! I guess she didn't understand the time commitment. Apparently she was an SM only once before. She seemed very surprised that she got the heftier job over me, but it's because she was interviewed before me. Also, she's older, and has more life experience.

I just wish I was getting paid. Oh well. Working on something so affluent is still awesome.

Haiti

Yesterday, I went crazy cleaning. The bathroom is nearly spotless, and I cleaned a ton of old clothes out of my closet. I want to donate them to Haiti, but I'm having a hard time finding a place that will take them. I hear Red Cross might work, so I'll call them tomorrow.

Damn Polic Check

Late last year, I was doing this volunteer thing where I go to elementary schools and help out on musical theatre workshops. This year, I'm getting small homourariums to do it, and because that technically counts as getting paid, I had to submit to a police check. Now, I have never committed a crime, and wouldn't even think of doing something that would bar me from working with kids. But paperwork can be a pain in the ass. Case in point, in the time that has passed since I filled the form out, the laws on police checks has changed. I'm not quite sure what the story is, but it's sitll not complete. I wasn't able to go in last week. But my boss Donna has talked to the schools so they'll let me in tomorrow and Wednesday anyway. What a pain in the butt.

It's been a while...

I've been a bad poster lately. Or rather, a lazy poster.



Still unemployed. Had a great job interview last week. It was to stage manage over at the Distillery District. The lady running the interviews only called in 6 people, so I thought I had a real shot at it. But she went with someone else. First real job interview in theatre in the longest time, and nothing came of it. Thanks to the economy, as well as our self-indulgent Prime Minister, the theatre business is cut throat right now. Who knows when I'll be interviewed for another great show like that.



The dya I went to the interview was great. I have a new volunteer gig with V-day Canada as an assistant stage manager, and my interview was at 11am while the rehearsal was at 6:30pm. Sp I spent the whole day in Toronto. First, I went to my old office to visit. There's not much to do there until the Genie Awards relaly get going, so they were lugging boxes around. It's really bad there now. Everyone is quitting. They're telling me that I got out in perfect time. The big boss fired another boss and went all gestapo on everyone there, so they're all quitting, one by one. It's crazy. Sometimes I see the job listing and shake my head. Two more quit since I was there less than a week ago.

One of the listings was hilarious. They were trying to be subtle and say we want someone who will follow orders to the nines. Interesting...

After my visit, I went to the Eaton centre, the big downtown mall. I bought Apples to Apples, otherwise known as the coolest card game ever, the video game Mass Effect, and season 3 of Roseanne. I don't care what most people say, that show is timeless. I also got some new headphones. They're metallic and quite cool.

Michael C came to visit frm Waterloo yesterday, we saw Avatar (first time for him, second for me) and we went to Tandoori Flame for lunch. He absolutely loved the buffet. He was so funny when he came out of the bathroom "It's so damn clean in there! I thought I went into the ladies room!" HA