Gee, unemployment is long hours

So I thought while I waited for work (like that?), I was gonna get a SAG card. How hard can it be? Thousands of people have it. Every actor has advice on how to get it. Commercials and extra work = SAG card. Piece a pie.

Well, I've auditioned for a few commercials and got very little out of it. In fact, I got auditions out of it.

But this extra work. Damn. I haven't had a full night's rest since I got onto an extras casting network. I've been on two tv shows and a movie. My call time today is 11am, so I'm nursing a cold at home. The weekend was nursing this cold and hating my life and learning how to make a hot toddy.

Maybe I don't really want a SAG card. I mean, sure it's cool. Everyone's doing it. You get insurance and a pension plan, but then you gotta do MORE extra work and/or commercials (or as I'm learning -commercial auditions). Maybe you'll get a few lines in a movie. Maybe you'll become a movie star. Okay, THEN it's worth it. But this extra work is for the birds, man, for the birds.

The upside: I've been playing poker for close to a week. I'm a poker freak! I'm loving it. I'm watching the championship as I nurse hot toddies. My charm is a bobble head buddha monk (from off my dashboard). I go in at 11 today and I'm gonna play like the wind!

So far, have I gotten any SAG vouchers? It's been a whole week. This would mean at least one of the three, right? Wrong. All I've gotten out of extra work is betting tips.

So here I am, using valuable sabbatical time on extra work and being sick.

There's the update.