Bye Bye, Bank Monday, October 14, 2002

The weather was so nice today that I couldn't even stand it.  New York is all about the Fall lately and it's so damn nice  What can't it be Autumn all the time? 

It was my last day @ the Bank and I was suprised @ how wistful I found myself.  I guess when you hang someplace 5 days a week for nearly 2 years, you kind of form a little attatchment to it.  My boss and her colleage took me out to lunch @ The Brooklyn Diner, which was really cool and sweet of her.  It's the same place they took me on my birthday... so uh, no points for originality.  But @ least they're consistant.  Hee.  She's from Queens, as it turns out.  Knock a couple of drinks into her and BAM!  Bring on the loud, bring on the sass, bring on the catty little girl from the hood that I never knew existed.  I was dying!  They gave me a card that everybody from the office signed, it was really sweet.  Also there was $100 in it.  That was even sweeter.  Ohhh these wonderful, wonderful people!!!  But no, really.  It was a great day, I'm glad I ended things @ the Bank on a nice note.  They told me that they'd love to have me back if ever I wish to return.  Awwww, you guys.... you're all so dumb.  I ain't never stepping back in this hellish office setting again.

Hey have you guys seen the preview for that new movie with Kevin Kline?  Sort of has a "Dead Poets Society" vibe to it.  It's called The Emporer's Club and I highly reccommend you all go check this shit out.  Why is Spriteboy plugging this random movie, you ask?  Why, it's another shameless act of self-promotion, of course!  Remember that whole mess about me claiming to be an actor, like way back in my bio?  Well, it's actually not a lie.  It's true -- I have proof, and you can see it in theaters nation-wide on November 22nd.  In the film, I play one of Kevin Kline's students @ this all-boys academy.  I only worked on set for about 2 weeks but we did a lot of classroom/stairwell/school hall scenes, and yes, my pimpin' ass did get a few lines too, so check em out.  Working on the set for this was fun and sort of freaky b/c I went to a private school a lot like that, it was weird to be back in a uniform and surrounded by kids dressed the same.  It was also a little fucking embarassing b/c most of the other guys playing students were about 14 years old and still taller than me.  I don't wanna discuss it.  Shut up.  Go see the movie though.

Hudson.  Bright and early tomorrow morning.  This means I have to start setting a bedtime for myself and planning my time wisely... dammit.  I'm hoping things will pick up more and that I'll just be so busy training that the time will fly and I'll be shocked that it's quitting time and I'll be all excited about coming back the next day.  See, that's how it plays out in my head --- in my inner world where I'm the star and all my foes are crushed under my power --- but it never ends up quite like that in reality.  I hung with the ultra cool bellman downstairs the other day, which was a lot of fun actually.  I just shadowed them for awhile, and then I shocked myself by taking initiative and jumping into it with both feet.  I was hailing cabs, I was pulling luggage, I was escorting big-haired women from Dallas up to their rooms... it was invigorating.  I made $18 in tips!  Ok, so maybe that's not too impressive but I was only doing it for an hour and I was totally making it up as I went along.  There seems to be a lot of that "winging it" happening @ Hudson.  Like with the managers and my training?  See, I still pretty much have just been left to observe and watch virtually all the departments in the hotel except for the one that I was actually hired to work in.  Have I learned much about the computer system yet?  Uh, no.  Do I know what exactly goes in behind the front desk?  Er, um.. pass.  If I was put behind the desk tomorrow afternoon and asked to check Lenny Kravitz in, would I be able to do it.  Hell-fuckin-no.  I'm trying hard not to worry about this, I honestly am doing my best to just trust that they know what they're doing here... but doubt is starting to kick in.  Isn't it supposed to be this big whirlwind of information thrown @ me or something?  Shouldn't I be feeling bombarded with all kinds of stuff to learn?  Right now, it all just feels really easy and gradual.  Don't get me wrong, I LOVE getting paid to stand around and look cool, but I'm sort of drama-free @ the moment and I don't quite know how to deal.

I do look pretty damn good in my Front Desk Prettyboy Uniform though. 

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