Grad School or BUST!

I'm about to time travel.  I leave at noon and by the time I get to England it will be 11 the next day... I'm only traveling for 14 hours. ( I'm basically a time lord)

Oh ya, I'm going to grad school in England for the next two years!! I don't know if it's possible to be more excited. I'm going to East 15 to get my MFA. It's a really wonderful program, I'll be interning at THE GLOBE THEATRE (squeal of happiness) and studying in Moscow for a semester. My class mates are from all over the world. I"m going to learn a lot and I'm super pumped!

What have I been up to this summer to get ready?  I moved from NYC to Portland, Oregon to live with my parents and save some money. 

Brunch at my favorite place "The Tin Shed" they let dogs in the patio, and frank (on the left) loved my father. 

I worked at a really wonderful place with some really fantastic people called Salty's. I had the best office view of anyone I know :) 

The Columbia River

I've also been picking heavy things up and running around like a crazy person at Crossfit P.A.W. 

I have some serious calluses on my hands and bruises everywhere, they are badges of pride.

RAWRRRR!

Every day this summer I have been very aware of how blessed I am. I have amazing supportive parents. wonderful friends all over the country and I have been given an really amazing opportunity to seriously pursue my goal of being a professional actor.

The Gorge

Here's to never waiting tables again and getting tough :) I'm coming for you England!

Identity Crisis

I am two people. Not in a United States of Tara kind of way but in a how do I market myself kind of way.
What made me think of this is ? Graduation. I'm graduating soon and for the first time I don't know what I'm doing next year. It's all up in the air. The only thing I know is that I'm planing to move to NYC in september and who knows, that could change if I get some kind of awesome job before then... okay back on topic. I'm graduating and I want a job specifically as an actress. I am also a PR major and would like to use my PR degree form one of the 13 accredited programs in the country some how and get a survival job doing that too.

Here in lies the rub, someone hears that you're striving to be an actor and they figure you aren't serious about having a "regular" job and that you aren't going to be at any job for long.

then in the acting world the saying is  "if you can see yourself doing anything else do that". SO you tell a casting director that you do PR (or what ever) as well then they don't think you are serious... it's a circle of doom!!! so in the social media realm what am I suppose to do? How do I market myself? Do I have a web-cite that says JOJO GINN for PR click here for acting click here or do I go as Joanna in the PR world and as JoJo in the acting world and have two brands, then really give myself an identity crisis... or is it cool to be doing both things? any advice my social networking friends? what oh what shal I do... I've exhausted myself typing about this...


Cheers,

JoJo