My New Job... My New Temporary Job

Did I mention that I started working at a major entertainment cable television channel in their casting department? Because I did... temporarily. I thought I wasn't going to like it, but I do. My first day there I mainly escorted pretty girls to the casting room and back to the waiting room. It was a beautiful thing to see gorgeous girls so nervous that their eyes got watery. I just like seeing the humanity in everyone. Did I mention that we do bikini casting? Because we do.

We even do topless casting for the Latin American version of our channel, and I told them I wouldn't be comfortable with that, and they said, "Oh, don't worry, we never have guys in the room for that anyway." I was also there in the meeting with 5 girls (I was the only guy) while they discussed exactly why they needed to do topless casting.

Anyway, yesterday we were auditioning a comic, and he made a Mormon joke, and then he made a Paris Hilton joke. Then he got all serious and looked at this one girl in the room who he knew went to Hollywood clubs and said, "Oh, I'm totally sorry if you know Paris. I don't know if you do or not, but I'm totally totally sorry. It's just a joke." Afterwards, I tried to explain why this was funny to my coworker who knows I'm Mormon--she opted for the polite "Oh, did he tell a Mormon joke? Oh, I guess he did. Oh, I didn't even notice that..." approach. Whatever--it was funny. Also, another coworker is teaching me new words. So far I've learned about getting some "strange" and "touching" someone. For example, "He's got to get over her! I told him to just go out there and have some strange and get over her." For another example, "I know this one guy--this R'n'B singer who travels around a lot. He's married, right? But he touches a lot of girls on the road." I bet you can probably understand what these words mean now too. I also got new glasses. I wanted to just replace the lenses in some old ones, but Costco refused, so I got some similar ones.