The Casting Director - Something Special in the Air (cough)…

I am over-worked this week. My assistant is leaving for an executive casting job (I’ll miss you Gene) and I am going to be solo casting five (gulp) active films. All of them are shooting October 19^th. I expect a few to push, they always do. Two shoot in LA, one in Detroit, one in Iowa and one in Romania. Some have more work to do on them then others, but if I think of them all as one film, I think that it will be manageable. I will keep telling myself that.

Our new phone system is up and running. I can’t figure it out. Who has time to read 50 pages on how the frickin thing works? But if you call the office and are put on hold, I promise you will like the music - all songs with names of the people who work here in them or KCRW…

I have a cold. I hate working when I am sick; it is nearly impossible for me to concentrate.

I was in New York over the weekend and I was flying there on Wednesday and had to set up a session for Friday morning. I tried the new Wi-Fi service on American Airlines. It literally was the best thing ever! Setting up sessions at 35,000 feet was awesome. I was able to do so much work it was like I wasn’t out of the office.

I got a Kindle for my birthday. Now, I don’t have to schlep scripts home, I just forward the PDF to my kindle. I love it! I feel like I read faster on it and my back doesn’t hurt from carrying a bag full of scripts around. Oh yeah, I am saving the environment, less paper used, etc…

I have to say that “District 9” was a fantastic movie. Yes I am biased towards loving sci-fi, but this film is really worth it. It gets a little gory but as I had to remind my fella, Aliens are not real, so when they kill someone, it is not the same as watching a film with violence in it, right?

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