26/05/08 14:16


So only the one casting today, for a showroom again. I went in and it was like a conference room size with rows and rows of clothes on rolling racks everywhere. Eventually I went up to the front, and they asked me put on a pair of pants and then a shirt, and as I was putting on the shirt the designer (I had one of his cronies handing me clothes) comes over and looks at the pants, and says "Soo close. Nearly perfect, but your too skinny. Almost had it" pats me on the back, and walks away looking kinda upset. I though that was hilarious.

The agency thought it was funny that I was too skinny for the job.

So the other guys in the line with me were from Canada as well, one of which was from my home agency (NAM) who I had talked to previously. Always nice to see a familiar face.

Went to a bike shop to look into buying a bike. Apparently if you are wearing slim fit jeans people think you are retarded. The guy first of all though that riding fixed on the street is pointless (fair enough) so I asked about single speeds, and he points out this one bike at the back of the store, and he makes a comment about gears are better (fair enough), so not wanting to deal with gears (or needing them in the flat as day old pop city) I asked him about an old from he has sitting around that I could build up, to which he responds "no they all have vertical or kinda slopy (I'm guessing he meant horizontal) dropouts, to which I pointed out the one single speed he had in the store, which has vertical dropouts. This conversation went on for a while, him telling me what I was looking for is wrong, and then me telling him that it could be done. Even pointing out a bike that IS BUILT to be put together as a single speed (it was rocking internal gears) he said it wouldn't work. So I finally just left, no point talking to someone who isn't listening.

No casting for tomorrow. Instead I have a photo editorial with Vogue Sports (sounds kind of oxymoron like to me), first job, should be fun. Hopefully I get some clothes out of it. Apparently it is for Converse shoes... great... more shoes that will destroy my feet... just what I always wanted...


I need a bike.


Random funny fact:
While looking up a spelling i came across this discription of an eating disorder

Defencive vomiting is a symptom of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa in which a person who has drastically over-eaten (generally in reaction to previous extreme dieting) vomits as a reaction to an excess of food which the body is not prepared to handle.

Defencive vomiting can also refer to a tactic used by some animals. In the presence of a threat, they vomit towards the threat, thus possibly distracting a predator and perhaps obscuring their scent."

How many people can say they have an eating disorder that also helps protect them from predators? (FYI I don't have an eating disorder, I was looking for a spelling, and after some random clicking I got to this page on Wikipedia and laughed)