And so it begins.

Well okay, I've actually been in L.A. for almost 4 months but this is my first time blogging.

In the days to come, I'll share my L.A. actor experiences with you. Maybe you'll find some humor or inspiration or comfort in my stories.

So...this weekend I had an audition for a short film called Rapture. I show up at the L.A. Film School, an enormous, impressive building on Sunset and Vine. I meet Heather, who's the producer and Donovan, who's the director. I walk into the room and sit down.

They both smile at me and then he says, "So what did you prepare for us?"

I wasn't told to prepare anything so I thought it was going to be a cold-reading from the script.

"Uh, I didn't know I was supposed to prepare anything," I stutter.

"I said that in my email, I thought," Heather says. She looks a bit annoyed.

I'm usually good about details like that but nonetheless I can't remember being told that. Anyway, they're staring at me waiting for me to do something. And my mind fails me. All the monologues I've done over the years and I can't remember one to save my life right now! They both banter around ideas of what I could do for them on fly and nothing sounds feasible. I feel like I'm one of those "my-dog-ate-my-homework" kind of people. I feel like a huge dork.

So I decide to just take responsibility for this and I say, "Look I guess I messed up. I have nothing prepared so if you want I can just...go."

And I start to gather my things.

The director says, "No no don't go."

So I take a deep breath and pause and then somehow this came out of me:

"Okay. I moved from Seattle about 4 months ago. And everyone wondered why. And people have this impression that L.A. is very slick and superficial and phony. But since I've been here, it has been just as beautiful and spiritual and deep as I wanted it to be. I believe what you think of something is what it will be for you. I left behind everything I knew and loved to come here because something told me that I was supposed to come here to...be the next grandest version of me."

At that point, saying those words out loud, made me get all teary. I couldn't believe I was telling perfect strangers about my life and my journey. I'd never done anything like that before.

They were staring at me and there was just silence for a moment.

Then the director says, "That was the best audition I've seen all day...because it was real."

The producer then says that I can prepare something and come back next week, giving me a second chance at this audition.

Anyway, maybe I won't get the part but it was one of the most memorable audition I've ever had.