The Waiting Games

Last year on Billy West's birthday I filmed this

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This year, I didn't even need to plan to do something special, because it happened just by random chance! (don't thank random chance, thank my meteor-wishing powers ;P)

This year I woke up at 2AM to be on the road with my daddy by 4. We rode three hours - listening to Carrie Fisher's new audiobook and eating jellybeans. By dawn we had made it to our destination, a mall in Shelby, NC to enter the casting call for extras for a certain movie based on a VERY wonderful book that I have been obsessed with since first reading it the day Tangled came out.

We got there super early, so I was able to be one of the first people in line, and amazingly thee were other girls from my same hometown! That was pretty neat. The thing that took the longest was the waiting. The line got longer and longer until it wrapped around a corner so we could no longer see the end.

The actual submitting of my photo and form didn't take as long, I walked up to a lady at the big long table and handed them to her, she looked them over and wrote something I couldn't see, then directed me to put them in the correct bin designated for my gender and age group.

So, not really sure what I was so nervous about, but it really was a fun little endeavor. Even if I am not selected as an extra, it was still fun to get to talk to people who had also read the book; it was like a tiny tHG convention (especially with the waiting in line)!

Also I was one of the only people I saw who wore something having to do with the books. One girl had a shirt, and I had my Mockingjay pin.

I took many pictures and a little video, to be posted at a later date. There was also much mingling/attention-whore-ing as I handed out about forty cards advertising my voice-acting and other internet wares.


We made it home safely after waffles and turkey bacon, and since I didn't have time to actually watch anything Billy-oriented, I am now watching some Futurama :) .

On Sunday I saw Rio, expect a review - with hope - this week sometime (actually two ;P)
To give a tiny little review, it was nice. It's also a secret musical, just so you know. So, be prepared. It could've actually used more songs, really. Something before the credits rolled sung by the main two birds, and something from the humans.

So, that was my weekend. I have much to do this week, including making that review video, and a few voice-related things. Hope everyone has a good week as well!



ALOFC



-Celia