Maybe There Will Be Cupcakes

Ginny Bartolone's Blog of Many Years

Category: Life

  • The world isn’t ending, this year just sucks.

    WHAT THE HELL, 2012? Can we all just step back a moment, sit down, and figure out what has been going on with the world? I am all for positive blog posts, but these past several months have been one for the books. The only solace I have found is that 2012 has two weeks left and…

  • Sandy: This Side of the Hudson

    The past two weeks have been relentless.  It has been ten days since Sandy really walloped us and it is still the primary conversation in Jersey City. Ben and I didn’t expect Sandy to be that big of a deal.  We were barely affected by Irene, and if anything, it had been a nice break…

  • The Catch-22 of the Acting Business

    I am temping in an ad agency this week.  All day long, my desk sits next to a door that says “Studio.”  When the doors open I see green screens, cameras, the whole nine yards.  Every time someone comes out, I sit up straight and bat my eyelashes with the crazy chance one of them…

  • Day 5: Delirious

    This is how Christina and I feel after week 1 of camp. Blog post of the night complete. Bam.

  • The Secret Life of Background Actors

    This post has been a long time coming.  So be prepared for a lengthy one.  When I moved to New York City almost two years ago, I was pretty clueless about the realities of finding part-time work that didn’t make me insane.  Ten dollars an hour seemed like a dream to serve people cupcakes.  And…

  • Here Comes the Sun Doo Doo Doo Doo

    I started out having a pretty negative week.  On Wednesday, I had one of those “Me against the world” days.  A former job was a week late in paying me, my parent’s insurance company had a “computer glitch” and therefore couldn’t cover me (you read that correctly), another job that pays me in cash wasn’t able…

  • My Real Resume

    Bit of a dreary day today, and not just because of the weather. I had one of those cursed mornings that started me off of the wrong foot, and then the next ten wrong feet. Sure, that makes sense. In a span of two hours my cat ate my breakfast, my metro card broke, my…

  • Slow Down Graduates!

    Having the flu (or the mysterious 2012 bug) on and off for three weeks sure can slow you down. After taking another day off on Monday because I had a wave this odd sickness, I ventured out to the pharmacy on foot for a prescription. I figured the exercise might break me out of my…

  • Oh I should, should I?

    Bugs Bunny and $5,000 coffee tables Last night I started working a new part-time job.  Without going into company details that could get me into some trouble, the job involves me assisting at auctions and mingling with lots of drunk rich people.  Though my co-workers and most of the people I helped with the auction…

  • Flourish (v.)

    Tuesdays are strange.  Since September I have had most Tuesdays off, usually not by choice.  The way my schedule has played out among my four or five jobs, Tuesdays have always been left open to the possibility of background work or an audition.  And due to my pretty tight budget, lack of work does tend…