Progress again, yes!

Time for a new post. And this time there's a reason - I am progressing with my this year's to-do list. Alright, so it's easter vacation right now and I am going back home for a few weeks to relax, and rethink some stuff that I really need to. Up until now I've been doing some homework, so that I can scratch something from my list.

First of all, I got my black belt in karate. Thirteen years have finally paid off, and this belt will help me a little bit in future, I hope. I've got plans on working as a personal trainer as my survival job, so that might count a little bit. Also, having a black belt in some kind of martial art on your actor's resume might get you a very small, but still, bit of work. So there you are.

And I finally got my headshots. They are not as professional and as good looking as the ones that Los Angeles actors are getting, but they are still head-shots. As a student I cannot afford a high professional, so instead I got a very cheap one. But I hope these will still help me get a little bit of background/extra work, at least. And I look more professional now, even though I'm just a first year acting student.

Reading is going well, learning English not so much. I have got loads of work for University, and I am still thinking of doing lots of monologues at home, recording them and putting on YouTube (on private channel only). Yeah, so I really need to focus on my Uni work right now, just one month left and then all the extra work I want. OK, going to pack now... home, here I come!

Progressing!

Still here, still here. Keeping the score of my life time for myself, and myself only. So a quick post just for the record. Stuck with a new diet plan as promised from the beginning of this week - two months for bulking up, and then one month for getting ripped. Seems like not much time, but I'll try to achieve the maximum. Spend a nice amount of money for creatine, BCAA aminos, vitamins, omega-3, Liver Aid and protein bars. Ah well, it's just for few months. Can't wait for starting my losing weight diet, I'm already chubby now - I wonder how I'm going to look like in two months (boiling 1kg of brown rice right now, for the whole week). Well, the good part is - I'm eating an awful lot of food, and I love stuffing myself. It's not burgers, but still... meat is awesome!

Also, another good news is - got an appointment with headshot photographer for this Thursday! So I'm spending a few evenings reading Back Stage and some other sources on "How to make a good headshot". These ones are going to be very cheap (probably the cheapest professional headshots in UK), but for the beginner - it's awesome. And especially for someone who's only in his first course of Acting degree and only half a hear in England. Now drinking plenty of water, eating lots of fruits. Going to have as much sleep as I can today and tomorrow - need to look perfect in front of a camera.

So, as you (I?) can see, I'm going through that to-do list which I made for this year. Hopefully those headshots are going to help me to start getting into the business - I mean extra/background work, maybe one or two student films, fingers crossed. Eh, will see. Oh yeah, karate competition is this weekend, and the a week after that is my black belt grading. Going pretty serious on my training right now, need to accomplish these goals and mark them as "checked" on my this years to-do list. That's pretty much it. Going to eat my rice a beef-sausages now.

Currently reading: "Sanford Meisner on Acting"