Day Seventeen- 'cause Everything is RENT

I had a long conversation with my actor friend out here about housing options for poor actors.  He got into Section 8 housing, which means he has a kick-ass apartment that he pays 1/3 of his total monthly income for, no matter what his monthly income is.  I looked it up, they stopped taking new Section 8 applications due to lack of Fed. funding.  Lame.

My other friend BP lives in a studio in Brooklyn that only costs $695/month for actors, run by The Actor's Fund. They have openings, but your tax return has to show annual income of $23-32k.  I made too much last year, so no-go.  In California, you can only get Actor's Fund housing if you are an actor who is HIV positive, so it's nice to know that here they are a little more open to you just being an actor and not having to be literally dying to be considered for assistance.

Not that I'm planning to move permanently; just that I'd like to have a place here, too, so that I can keep auditioning.  And also, I actually like NYC.

Shooting a scene next Tuesday, hopefully it'll turn out good enough for my (outdated) reel.  I'm a junior attorney in a firm assigned to a Catholic Parish.  We'll see...

I found out that my brother is in the ICU in California, and NOBODY is in town- my parents are in Arkansas and I'm way the heck out here.  His roomate caught me on fb to let me know.  They thought he was having a heart attack, but after lots of testing it turns out that he had a virus that spread to his heart.  I'd be really freaked out right now, but the same thing happened to my friend Luis last year and he was able to have full recovery, so it makes me feel a little better.  But terrifying, really.

It's after midnight and if I'm going to get anything done during my last 9 days here, I'm going to have to start falling asleep before 6am.  Not my fault, totally, I found out that the supplement I'm taking has a MEGAdose of caffeine in it.  It's basically NoDoze with some vitamins thrown in.  But they listed the caffeine as herbal blend and I didn't know what that meant.  "Guarana" means caffeine.