About Time

Just a quick rant before we begin.

I hate my mouth guard.

I swear it is doing me harm. I clamp down on it when it is in my mouth, and my jaw is sore when I wake up. I'm right now trying to eat my breakfast, and my bite is so off that my teeth are banging against each other when I chew.

Grrrrrr.

Ok, rant over.

Let's get back on topic.

And that topic is...

SS.

As you know, I have for weeks now been feeling like I am flubbing up in class and with his guests.

I was worried he might consider not offering me the TA after all.

Then, yesterday I started out to class in the morn to help teach. I slapped on some cologne.

I don't normally wear cologne, but my mom bought me some a while back, and one time I put some on to go to work, and one of the girls fussed over me because of it, so I got it in my head that cologne is goood.

I'm not really the cologne type, but fuck it.

So, going to class, I slapped some on. Thought I kind of chintzed on the amount, so I slapped again. Then rubbed the remainder on my hands onto my shirt.

While driving to class, just as I was pulling up in fact, I was overwhelmed with the smell. My eyes started to tear, the cologne was so heavy!

I stunk!

I tried to wave it off when I got outside. I rubbed against my neck, but it just felt like I was a scratch and sniff, and all the rubbing was now activating it even more.

I hoped for the best.

Walked into the office, and TR, the guy I assist, and SS were there talking. I stayed across the room from them so that I wouldn't over power them.

TR leaned in close to SS as they were looking over the same page of paper.

SS suddenly winced and shook his head. He turned to TR and said, Whew, you are wearing too much cologne.

I died inside.

TR said he wasn't wearing any.

They both looked at me.

SS said, is that you?!

I said I spilled.

He said, go wash your hands.

I left. I went into the bathroom and tried to sink wash myself clean. I avoided SS the rest of that afternoon.

That night, I had my own class with him.

As I pulled up, he was standing outside the studio, looking up and down the street.

When he saw me get out of my car, he laughed.

I walked over to him, and he said that my Geo Metro should have a sign posted across it that says starving actor.

I told him it was the second such car I have owned in my lifetime.

We laughed together.

Then, he asked if I had gotten a haircut. Since this morning?

No, I said. I showered off all that cologne.

He burst out laughing. He couldn't believe it had been coming from me, since I was across the room. He said he swore it must have been coming from TR.

We laughed some more about it. He joked that he can be a bit too blunt.

It was great. I hadn't had a regular, casual moment with him for some time.

I told him I was helping out this Sunday on one of his all day long intensives. I usually don't do it, there is another girl who used to TA, and she does the intensives. She is a mother though, and asked if I would do it this Sunday, since it is mother's day.

SS was excited. He said he was glad I was doing it, and won't it be fun. He, TR, and I.

Then, in class, he announced the next Sitcom Competition and told us we were in it. It is in June, and he wants to tape it, and maybe sell it to cable, so he wants us to work on comedy until then.

He gave me a Lovable Loser scene. He always tells me I can't play it because I'm not vulnerable enough.

I got up and did the read through, and he was impressed.

He said only minor adjustments, and I did the taping. He said great work. Told me he was trying to challenge me, and give me a role I can't play, but that I proved him wrong.

About time!