two months

...is how long it has been since I have written here. Over two months, actually.


I am officially a college graduate, and I am officially a resident of what they call "the real world". Summer hasn't been summer because I have been working non-stop at two different jobs. Luckily, I had one week after graduation to enjoy some freedom...in New Orleans.

I'm still submitting, and I'm still auditioning. With a ton of help from Barbara, I finally have a finished reel. Next steps: uploading it, so that I can post a link for my website and getting my agent submissions together. High hopes that I can get this together in the next week or two. It will be great to have someone actively trying to get me work, without me having to find it all by myself. An agent is also going to have a lot more access to more work, specifically PAID work, which is what I need.

Besides finding auditions, being booked for auditions, and getting cast, the hardest thing about being an actor might just be scheduling. It is so difficult to work around two work schedules when scheduling auditions and much more difficult to have the availability to shoot a project for a day, a couple of days, or even a few weeks at a time. How do people do this?! Let me rephrase that: how do people do this and still generate an income to LIVE?

On another note, I am moving apartments at the end of July. Though I've been living by myself all summer (I'm hardly ever home), this will be the first time I will officially have a place all to myself. It will be nice...I just hope it's also not lonely. I am really happy with the place I have found and am actually going to sign the lease today. I wish I could enjoy buying furniture and decorating my place, but it's really not practical if I am going to pick up and move to California in six months...or at least within the year.

I didn't post the links to the student films I was in, but they are posted on my website. I will also be posting a link to my reel (hopefully today), so if you're interested, check it out. My website is... http://www.samwiley.weebly.com/