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August 3, 2006
Ode to a Great Intern
I have a great intern. Seriously. She's amazing.
And she's been coming up to Los Angeles from San Difuckingego every week or so to organize my headshots, purge the duplicates, make sense of my postcard files, and generally just hang out in the floor of my home office and do the stuff that is NOT fun about having a casting business.
She occasionally gets to do stuff like run camera, read with actors in auditions, and sign in a zillion actors while reminding them to have their headshots ready to hand off as they enter the room... and I've given her access to the What Were You Thinking file, which she seems to enjoy.
But for nothing more than a thank you, some gluten-free snacks, and whatever it is an actor can learn by seeing thousands of headshots and hundreds of auditioning actors, Julie endures my bizarre taste in TV shows, provides love to the kitties, and tolerates Keith's Ninja obsession. AND she lets me sit around in my jammies doing my job like I always would (whether it's fielding pitch calls on a new breakdown or checking interest and availability on a name actor... or something much more boring like meticulously organizing my audition sides).
I am so thrilled with how much more organized my casting files are now, and a MAJOR part of that is Julie. So, thank you, Julie. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU. You have been so very awesome to spend time with--and that's just a way cool bonus!
PS--Casting announcements on Three Poems within hours. Woo!
Posted by bonnie at August 3, 2006 4:28 AM
Comments
Oh my gosh. I'm so red. :) Thank you, Bonnie! That's so sweet I'm going to make my mother read it. ;) You know, I wouldn't do it if it wasn't fun!!! :)
Posted by: Julie at August 3, 2006 10:23 AM
Julie's a good! :)
Posted by: Debra at August 3, 2006 1:15 PM
She sounds awesome!!
You might not realize it, since you're so in tune with the business and you've been doing it so long.....but I'm SURE she's learning a lot more of the business than you even know! Sounds like a great match. And you get to work in your jammies?! Smile.
Posted by: Angel at August 4, 2006 10:36 AM
THis has nothng to do with the lovely and effieicent and cool intern.
http://archive.gamespy.com/comics/dorktower/
Posted by: Ed R at August 4, 2006 1:49 PM
Does too! The lovely (you called me lovely! I love you!) and efficient intern (I'm not efficient, I'm slow :P) used to read Dork Tower ALL THE TIME when she was a game programmer. Yes, she IS that cool...
Bonnie, what HAVE you done to my ego???? :) :) :)
Posted by: Julie at August 4, 2006 11:06 PM
Nothing it didn't deserve, darlin'. ;) Hee! Enjoy the love. You've earned it!
Posted by: Bon 
at August 4, 2006 11:47 PM