I'm alive

I made it through the last five days and am ready for the home stretch. This past weekend I shot Saturday and Sunday on "Drawing Blood" an indie horror film that my friends are making. On Saturday, I met Joe Estevez, who plays the police chief in the film. Very nice guy and was a lot of fun to hang around the set with. My parents came into town to see my last "Patel Leads" sketch show. Since we wrapped a bit early on Saturday, I was able to drive back downtown to have dinner with them and my sister.

Sunday we shot out in Romeoville. Another long day, but we got a lot done and I am almost wrapped on the film. Sunday night, by the time I got home and got stuff ready for the next couple of days it was late and I made the decision not to go to bed. So on Monday I am going on zero hours of sleep and I have to work all day downtown at a furniture trade show. I hook up with a couple of guys and our "post" is the El train platform at the Merchandise Mart. And since we were not allowed to approach people we sat and read and talked all day in a comfy chair and made a lot of money doing it.

Monday night, still on no sleep, I had the last "Patel Leads" sketch show that went very well. My friend "M" and I had worked very hard on the show and people really liked it. We were a little sad when I drove her home, but we knew going in that I was moving to L.A., so we just decided that we were glad we got to do a show together.

Got home Monday night and crashed. I topped out at 40 hours of no sleep. I got about 3 hours of sleep Monday night and then back on the train platform on Tuesday for another day of sitting around. When I got done with that I went home, ate dinner and went to sleep with my body slowly shutting down from lack of sleep.

T-minus one week and counting. I have my going away party this Friday.

The countdown has begun

Well, it is T-minus 2 weeks until the big move and I have almost nothing done. In the next 5 days I have to shoot 2 days on a movie, work 2 days at a convention, perform my last show in Chicago, have a quick visit with my parents who are driving in to see the show, and move all of the furniture in the apartment because our landlord decided the week before I move,is the week he installs central air and heat in our apartment.

And on top of this, the good-byes have begun which adds a whole set of emotions on top of the stress that I am having.

Things are getting tight.