Productive

I have felt so focused and driven the past few days. Much more so than I have in a really long time.

I forgot to tell you guys yesterday, but I've had a slight set-back in the work force. Okay, a pretty significant set-back. An old boss told me he'd hire me this fall, but now he can't hire anyone, so the job I was banking on having (literally, my bank account is running pretty dry these days) is no longer an option. And I especially need one since I want to join that film acting school. I met with my professor today and I'm seriously in love with the place. But level one classes start on Monday, so I have to enroll before then, I just don't know how we're going to be able to pay for it. If I could have started that job when I got here, or even next week, I would be able to pay for it myself. Instead, I spent today writing a whole resume, looking for jobs through UNCW's career center website (which is actually super convenient and I'm really grateful for it), and applying for a few. I have more to do tomorrow, but I got a lot done today. Pounding the pavement of the information highway is actually kind of exciting, even though its a bit more work than I anticipated. It has made me feel very accomplished though.

I have one more semi funny story before I log off for the night. Mine and Sweta's friend Anna is visiting Wilmington this weekend. She knew about me being hypnotized, so while we were at the apartment and I was finishing up a cover letter for another job application, she randomly said, "Olivia, hypnotize me!" Being a veteran of hypnosis, I thought I could do it. I have a strobe light on my phone that I turned on and had her focus on, then I went through the first part of what the hypnotist did to us at the show the past two years which was telling her to relax every part of her body and focus on the light and my voice and all that. And I was doing pretty well...until I forgot how to transition from the going to sleep to the actual sleep to the following commands. Needless to say she started laughing in the middle of falling asleep. So we tried to look up videos on self-hypnosis, and one video got me really relaxed, but nothing like the show. It was fun though.

Whether that made you laugh or not, I'm about to pass out so I'm going to bed now.

xoxo