That 4
Friends Movie
Before it starts - Waiting to
get the job
It's (whatever day of the week April 15, 1997 is?),
and I spent most of last night and today trying to avoid the
superstitious things that automatically hex a person's shot at winning
the job after a job interview. Lonnie, the brother of my script
supervisor teacher, called me last Saturday to schedule me for an
interview on a movie he's working on. I did the interview
yesterday and he totally hexed it by telling me they really liked me
and they've got to meet with the producer's friend but that's just a
technacality (oh, Lonnie, why did you say that? I moaned in my head),
and he started telling me to meet with his sister to brush up on
stuff. He'd probably call me by 5 o'clock that day to give me the
good news.
When I got home, I started to do the math on how
much I would make for the whole job at 24 days. Then,
milliseconds before I hit "=" on the calculator, I turned off the
calculator because I figured that was a hex thing. Then the phone
rang around 5 and it was my brother, not my script supervisor teacher's
brother, saying "Hello, this is not opportunity knocking" and asking me
what my week looked like because he needed me to pick him up at the
airport Thursday. Between the long tug-n-pull how's my work week
looking and what he really wanted, I let it slip about the interview
but not wanting to talk about it because I didn't want to hex it.
Two more phone calls from friends, and no call from Lonnie. And I
couldn't vent into my e-mail, because that's just as big a hex.
Tuesday, no call, I didn't spend my last couple of
bucks on a raspberry and white chocolate scone at Starbucks because I
figured I'd need the money to buy a Hollywood
Reporter to continue the job search, but I decided to wait to
buy the Hollywood Reporter
until later in the day just in case, which might be a bigger hex than
blowing my last $2.65 on the treats scone.
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