ramblings of a raconteuse

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Actress, raconteuse, and artivist with a serious love for zombies.

This is my journey <3
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rac·on·teuse
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a woman who is skilled in relating stories and anecdotes interestingly.

art-i-vist
-noun, plural
dedicated to using art to promote awareness and educate.

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Oh man, I have “vacation head.” My husband Barry and I just got home from our first vacation in 5 1/2 years and holy nuts is it hard to get off of island time and back to “real life.”

My brain seems to move slower and my limbs don’t react to what I want them to do. I am apparently, on some level, still drinking margaritas and lying on the sand, instead of staring at my giant to-do list. Everything on it looks like some alien language. ”Blurbitty, blurbitty. Blech.”

I didn’t think returning to LA and getting back into the swing of things again would be this hard, but I guess being like a hamster running tirelessly on a treadmill for 5 1/2 years without stopping to recharge will do that to you.

I’ve spoken before about the crazy hustle that is LA in my vlog which is (now archived on YouTube), and it is in fact, insane. I call it “going UP the DOWN escalator.”

Basically, pursing a career in LA, feels like you are constantly climbing UP the DOWN escalator. The stairs are pulling you down and you just have to keep walking up faster than the rate of the stairs that reach the bottom. Sometimes you are running up to gain momentum, and sometimes, it’s just a steady climb, but it is always going up. If you don’t keep going, then you are right back down at the bottom, right where you started. It’s exhausting.

The reality is that choosing to be in LA pursing a career means that I have also chosen this ridiculous “workout.” I’ve done my best to not see it as a burden, but instead as a challenge, but man is it hard sometimes. Today is one of those times.

Wish me luck going “up the down” today since apparently my legs don’t want to move, and I am still here…