What's Up With That?

I started to write this brilliant but boring piece on Balance in one's life and I abandoned it.  Why?  Because I am exhausted and I cannot struggle to complete the topic at hand.

I think I know what it means to have Writer's Block.  Of course I would experience this anytime I had to write a paper for school.  I just experienced it this morning as I worked on a presentation for work.  I had no problem making the presentation look great...but the substance...now that was a different story.

And this seems to be true of me lately.  I have no problem making myself look great but often wonder where the substance is.  In fact, making myself look great has become very easy for me in my life.  I am only now realizing my full potential as a seven-or-eight-figure-salary-drawing top male model.  Hey, I can look at my watch and point at the bus (with a briefcase in my hand) along with the best of them.  Alas, I have not yet been discovered because of all the favoritism in the industry.  So I must toil away at my engineering job until the day when I get my first real screen test.

Crowds went wild for my comedic performance as Curt Keshian, High Paid Consultant.   My repeat performance in the role drew favorable reviews as well.  I branched out to do a series of Spanish Home Safety tapes in which I discussed the dangers of spoiled fruits, slippery tile floors and sun burns.  It was in these roles that I felt I was beginning to branch out as an actor mostly because I had no idea how to speak Spanish and yet I was able to transcend the language and move the audiences. Take a look at the unforgettable kitchen scene where my "daughter" Maria looks at me and asks [translated] "are we not to eat this lettuce, Father?" to which I reply [translated] "No, Child...No."  It only took four takes to get that tear to roll off my cheek and onto the spoiled lettuce head in slow motion close up and let me tell you...there were NO dry eyes on the set that day!

I've mulled over a few scripts...the part of "Nutty" in the upcoming Littleton Jr. High 8th grade play Nutty in which my character plays a janitor who sweeps peanut shells off the stadium seats of a ballpark and then becomes a superhero after eating a radioactive peanut.  The role of the "skinny Terminator" in The Six Million Dollar Man Takes On The Skinny Terminator, a play being produced by Ward 4 of St. Michael's Hospital.  In both cases I didn't feel the parts were "right" for me. Patience is the key.