I rarely get stressed – honestly. But I suppose every once and a while it’s good for ya. I think. Call it my laying (somewhat) low over the past few months, working on my little projects and traveling, or perhaps its just ’cause I put everything off until a week before I fly to L.A., but man… I need a holiday.
Speaking of L.A., I’ve a friend-I’ve-never-met there who has been one of the most supportive people in my career here. He not only keeps up with my shows, but has been pushing me to do a reel for him to give out to his contacts (and they are both many and powerful – wish I could drop a few names, but I won’t) to see about work there. Please don’t laugh – I hate watching myself on cam:
That wasn’t stressful, actually, that was kind of exciting to do.
Stressful things? I need to moan.
A kind-of friend who was kind-of helpful to me in the beginning stages of my little career is claiming I owe him 20+ shows when in fact, his local staff lost the majority of them. Granted, I should keep all shows on file (we do for 30 days), but it wasn’t anything stellar so we dropped them. He’s demanding cash back. I actually exercised the old German Army movement of waiting 48 hours before responding to his email and it helped…at least, I think it helped. At least I stayed away from starting a mini-war. We’ll see.
I had a meeting with a man-of-more-success-in-Web 2.0-than me and theshanghaishow might get a breath of life. Might turn into nothing, but it’s nice to know that a few people are taking notice.
My friend Sarah is leaving and we organized a really-cool night away from Shanghai for her – long story short, I would be 30-minutes late to meeting up to get there and some people are saying the rest should leave without me. I don’t want to come across as a dick, but I’m one of her closest pals and have been going nuts these past few weeks putting it together…ugh.
I’m broke – kind of. Made a shitload of money this year and spent it all on travel…and these past few months of recreation. Don’t get me wrong, went a lot of places this year:
U.K.
Amsterdam
Indonesia
Malaysia
U.S.A.
Australia
Philippines
U.K. (again)
…and all over China, but liked having a little in the bank. I really don’t have much now. Oh well.
O.M.K.O.S. has had a bit of re-doing. P and I really wanted to make this big, but with him starting his own company, he didn’t have the time to make it what we really wanted (and it has very little to do with the programs now – you’ll see what I mean in a few weeks). Despite us having some civil meetings, it came, as business usually does between close friends, to a bad ending. It’ll stay up, but it’s just my show now.
My phone bill was over $300 – which in China is simply amazing.
Collin, one of my closest friends here and I have started shooting all the bands here for his magazines blog – fun, but still one more thing that had to be done this week:
The aforementioned video game VOX job is one of the hardest things I’ve ever done – I like to think I’m pretty good on-mike, but this is a whole new level. I did about 20-30 lines and it took 4 hours…am pretty sure they’re frustrated with me, as I am with myself; although, it’s a cool learning experience…and humbling. But, I was sort of cheeky in that I didn’t tell them on Wed. that I was leaving the next week for The States, hoping that they would keep me on after investing a lot of time in me anyway – have to write that email now. I suppose with L.A. just around the corner, a blow to my ego wasn’t the best thing…
Other work of mine is being re-directed to local staff. I can’t blame the co’s, I’m expensive and you can hire someone to do what I do (well, not as well, ha ha) for about 1/10 less. I know why people hate Wal-Wart now.
Here’s hoping it’s nothing an In N Out burger won’t cure.
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