reflection

On my career:
You came into this life equipped with great curiosity, a lively, versatile, inquisitive mind, and an urge for constant learning and new experiences. Your most basic inner drive is to communicate, to make connections and association (between people or ideas), and to develop your gift for language and expressing yourself through the spoken or written word. Thus being an intermediary or messenger, a translator, a teacher, a broadcaster, a correspondent, or in some field where you can mix and mingle and interact with a broad spectrum of people, suits you well.
Fascinated by life's seemingly endless variety and the multitude of options and choices available to you, you may flit from one person, job, hobby, or location to the next, restlessly seeking new experiences and stimuli. Even if you do not do this in your outward behavior, inwardly your mind is in constant motion, and you require a healthy dose of variation and mental or social stimulation in your life in order to approach anything resembling contentment. Skimming lightly over the surface of life, however, can lead to a shallowness of understanding and a fluttering away of your energies.

Lessons Learned

I teach you to lie, cheat, and steal, and as soon as my back's turned you wait in line?
~ House

The Journey in a Symphony

No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve in quality as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing it is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them.
- Alan Watts

On A Roll....

GRE is taken and I'm happy with the score. I think it will definitely help get in the door of a good grad school.

The list of programs that I'm looking into is growing:
Emerson College, Boston - M.F.A. Media Art
NYU/Tisch School of the Arts - M.F.A. Film Production, M.A. Cinema Studies
U of CA, Los Angeles - M.F.A. Producers Program
Northeastern University, Boston - M.A. Cinema Studies
George Washington University - M.A. Media and Public Affairs

Making Plans

I'm trying to decide what to do with my life... as always.

I am working hard to get into Boston or New York. Very. I want to be there. I want be back there, doing something I love. Or at least something that is a step towards doing what I want.

I am going to find that job in radio or tv, first. Something to get in the experience.

And then the GRE is on the list again. Registering to take it in September.

Then there will be grad school for film at one of the following: NYU, Emerson, Northeastern, SMFA, UCLA.

Applications will be in by October.

Let's see........

Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2

Premiere and After Party Pictures here

Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 Premiere

I landed in New York midmorning and rushed to Aunt Sharon and Uncle Larry's apartment in order to get some sleep. After a little food, i spent a good hour and a half deciding what to wear. Luckily the hair was already curly. Got dress, walked over to 6th and caught a cab to the Ziegfeld Theater. We were guests of Debra Martin Chase, Sharon's good friend who got me this job.

The theater itself was nice. Caught sight of a lot of the crew members. Amy Johnson, publicist, and always with a camera on set. Phil Caruso, still photographer. David Allen, property master. Ruth DiPasquele, asst prop master. Michael Kirsten, hair stylist.

The After Party was on top of the Rooftop Garden. It was so much fun. I got to hang out with Sanaa Hamri, director. She looks great btw, changed her hair. Richard Patrick, 1st asst director. He's got a new HBO series starting filming soon, "In The Ninth" or something. Mariana Hellmund, script supervisor. It was great to see her because she did so much work for the film. She helped keep the story together which was NOT an easy job at all. Chris Sacani, exec producer. Gaylyn Fraiche, co-producer.

Funny thing happened. We ate first. We ended up sitting at this table with this woman and her daughter. And we're chatting about the movie and the books, and the film industry in general. She gets up to leave and shakes my hand. I ask her her name.... She says "Oh. I'm Ann Moore, president of Time, Inc." .... Aunt Sharon and Lori were stunned! Completely. Well they ARE lawyers. They are start saying "Get her back, get her back!"

And of course, I hung out with my men. The entire production I was in charge of the leading men and their "1st team production assistant". I had also looked after Blake Lively, but she was being hounded by the girls and their cameras because she had the whole Gossip Girl crew there: Leighton Meeser, Penn Badgley, Chace Crawford, and Ed Westwick. In a word: craziness. So I had chance to talk to her mother, Elaine. She was always a nice, but strong woman.

Back to my boys. Jesse Williams mostly associates me with Debra. Jesse's been doing Off-Broadway shows and . Still Leo Nam remember me. We spent hours in this house on a hot day without air conditioning and squacking parrots outside. We had the greatest time joking and dancing. He had the best attitude and a wonderful personality. So much fun to work with. I went over and found Tom Wisdom. He vaguely remembered me, but he's the perfect English gentleman. Asked me how I was, what I was doing now, and life in general. We talked about life since filming, about his year-and-a-half-old daughter and the vacation he's taking to spend time with her. Talking to him, I'm reminded how new this fame thing is for some. He's been fairly untouched by the media. He is amazingly sweet and sincere. A great combination. And there is Michael Rady. Michael spent 3 days hanging out with me. He was so funny and nice. He didn't remember me at first, but when I told him my role, he's like "Oh my God! CLAIRE!! I'm sorry I didn't remember you. " He introduced me to his dad, whom I talked to for a long time.

It was the best time. So surreal! And I got to see my name in the credits. It is under "Set Production Assistants", in the middle column under Patrick Bevilaqua. EXCITING!! I'll post the pictures soon.