Two Months down, now I can get settled…almost

Things are moving along now. I have a job that I am enjoying. The Swedish Espresso Bar is the perfect amount of busy, never get’s boring and them time goes pretty quickly. Although it’s only going to get busier as there was the giant New York Chocolate Show. The chef from my job took home best in show. and he is getting all sorts of press about it. See below, he shows up at the one minute mark and talks like cookie monster.

http://online.wsj.com/video/non-edible-treats-at-the-chocolate-show/28A77579-BE07-4A52-A302-2C3823F2EF8E.html (I tried to embed the vid into my blog post but it wasn’t working for some reason. If someone knows what I am doing wrong let me know.)

So the place is only going to get busier.

I have recently moved out of Hotel Jalapeno, the place I was subletting. I am now crashing on the couch of two friends in the Lower East Side. It is very sweet of them to let me crash here. After this I am probably going back to Hotel jalapeno, but who knows. That could all change.  So I am trying to settle in here in the big apple but don’t really feel like it yet. A friend, who will be visiting the city in December, asked what places I should recommend since I have lived there and I didn’t know what to tell him. I have been so busy I haven’t really had any “fun” just yet. I mean I have fun, life is what you make of it and I am having a good time despite the fact of being broke and sleeping on a friends couch.

Oh and guess what, the Lower East Side Couch I am sleeping on is across the street from that crappy crepe job that I got fired from. (see the earlier post First Day/Last Day) I get to walk by it everyday and thank my lucky stars that I got a much better job. Also douchebag doesn’t seem to work there anymore of if he does I haven’t seen him. He stupidly bragged to me about marrying one of the owners daughters so she could get a green card. I told this to my friend, the Grad Student, and she sent an anonymous email to the owners warning them to be careful with this guy. One phone call and their daughter could be deported, if he is bragging about it to me who else is he bragging about it too.  Hopefully they fired him too.

I have started writing on some projects again, some pilots, plays and maybe a return of The Timmy Wood Show but the NYC edition, who knows? I have some ideas and that could be one of them. Until then I post the old poster from the Texas Timmy Wood Show for nostalgia sake.

My New Job!

So I finally found a new job (again)

I got a job at a swedish espresso bar and it is amazing. They have great coffee and amazing food. One of which is espresso, cocoa, oats and coconut rolled up in a ball. They have their own swedish chef who makes all the chocolate truffles and he talks like Cookie Monster. Also the place is full of all these cute swedish girls, I am like the only guy who works there. Every one is ridiculously nice, for instance today one of the chefs made me a humus and vegetable sandwich today for my lunch, it’s a million times better than that stupid crepe place, people are nicer and pays better too.

I also played bartender at a local theatre that a few of my friends are associated with. And by bartending I mean just beer, wine and coffee, nothing fancy.

So I am working. That’s good, now I need to figure out a place to live permanently.

Oh, also I think I am going to take up boxing training. I am not even kidding. I am going to become am amateur boxer.

First Day/Last Day

So I landed a job, finally after all the hunting, sweating and crying I found something.

The Grad Student found a posting on craigslist and forwarded it to me for a popular Crepes bakery on the lower east side. I sent my resume and promptly got a phone call asking me to interview at ten that evening (the place stays open late!)

I get there and there are at least seven other people interviewing. It is a tiny tiny place and the line goes out the door late at night when the bar lets out. I interview with the owner, turn on the Timmy Wood charm and sure enough she gives me a call later saying I got the job and I would start on Wednesday.

It’s been a week.

Ok where to begin.

So, first off I moved to New York City. Yeah, I did it. I am here now. Now I am job hunting. I decided to go back to the restaurant business. Everyday I have been walking through New York, visiting restaurants, talking with managers and dropping off my resume. I have been hitting all the areas.

The other day I totally hit the Chelsea area of town. A lot of the restaurants were pretty gay friendly, those were the ones I had the most success with. I dropped my resume off and as I was leaving I heard the bartender tell the manager.
“Fire Jared and hire that guy!”
I am straight as an arrow but they don’t need to know that until after they hire me.
Today, I was in the Tribeca area looking at restaurants. One I came in and the guy I talked said
“Hold on, let me call my manager.”
dials phone, turns and mumbles something away to the person on the other line.
“Um..Ok let me check.”
Looks me up and down.
“Yeah…uh-uh…yes…(still eying me up and down while I stand there awkwardly) yes..ok”
Hangs up
“We will call you if we need you.”
A couple more places, actually had me sit down and fill out applications, one had a pop quiz on the back. Asking me what different grapes where for a Bordeaux, what “braising” means. Thank god for the G1. I cheated my entire way through it.

I also was walking down the street and saw a pink purse lying in the middle of the sidewalk. I thought that it was weird and kep walking, then I stopped. I went back and picked up the purse and found a cell phone and wallet. I called the most recent number and told her what I had found. I then went and met the woman I talked to, she was a friend of the purse owner, and I delivered it. Later, the purse owner called and thanked me. She said she wanted to thank me in person tomorrow and offered to meet me for coffee. Good deed of the year!

What else..Oh I saw Micheal Showalter on the street and since he’s my favorite member of the State I got a little goosebump.  (Only one goosebump though!) Then he saw me recognize him and basically gave me the “Please please don’t come approach me, I am not in the mood.” I hate doing that anyway so I just kept on walking. I twittered about it and later he replied thanking me.

Despite the fact of not having a job it has been great seeing some old friends who used to live in Houston. Hanging with them has been wonderful reminding me why I missed them so much in the first place.

last but not least. I saw the ASSCAT show on Sunday with Bobby Moynihan. It was great! Also Pat O’Brien was in it and I saw him perform with a troupe called The Reckoning when I visited a Chicago a couple of weeks back. He was one the best improvisers I had seen then and still is. It was a fantastic show. Seeing the Asscat show reminded me why I moved to New York in the first place, to pursue comedy both in writing and performing. I gotta to get in on those classes at UCB and hit the open mic nights (i’ve only been here a week though so give me a break!)

also since I am a comedy writer it probably would not hurt if my blog was funny too and now just a run down of what I did that week. Alright, alright the next one will have at least some jokes in it.

You’re Gonna Make It After All.

So in the next couple weeks I will have started a brand new job and will be getting a new place to live. It’s like I am on the first episode of the Mary Tyler Moore Show.

But I thought you were looking for a place to live by yourself  Timmy. That way you could become a hermit and shun everyone away just like your heroes Ernest Hemingway, Alan Moore, and Treat Williams.
I know. I know. But I wasn’t really finding a place and it was getting harder and harder to look with all these projects coming together like they have. A friend called me. She said that her roommate was moving out and she lived in a condo with her sister and they needed someone pretty quickly. I told her that I was looking for my own place but I would come by and look at it. I did and it had too many things going for it.
1. Down the street from my new job. I could bike there if I wanted.
2. A little fenced patio area that is perfect for Hobbes.
3. They don’t mind that I have a puppy. In fact they seem excited by it.
4. Super big condo. Looks great and amazing cheap rent.

So despite my attempts to become a hermit I was thwarted and had to take it. I move in on Sunday.

Well that sounds just grand Timmy. You got a new job? What happened to Starbucks?
Starbucks was fun. Flexible schedule. Benefits for part time employees. Free Coffee. And probably the best looking customers in the world (all ages. I am not joking there are some MILFs, GMILFs, in fact some just plain old ILFs.) But my body yearns for a set nine to five schedule. And getting to work ar 4 in the morning, while it can be fun, really has taken it’s toll on me. I will be working at an Interior Design Showroom and it looks so much more laid back then Starbucks was. I am looking forward to it.

That’s all for now. By the way I love crappy 90’s pop music. I know how bad it is but I love it.

Sick and Painting

So I seem to have come down with some sort of cold and I hate it. Man, this is what happens when you move in with you parents and your nine year old brother (I think he is the reason I got this cold.)

My grandparents also hired me to paint their walk-in kitchen pantry today. It is pretty big and the first thing I had to do was take out everything out of there. Holy Crap. They have enough food to feed an army. And what made me laugh the hardest was the duplicates of everything. All can foods came in multiples of five or six but they were all from different times. It was like they went to the store and couldn’t remember what they had so the just bought it anyway. And the nuts. Holy Shit there was so many containers of mixed nuts, cashews, walnuts, I mean I know my grandparents were drinkers but they really needed that many nuts. Grandma said anything I wanted I could take though. So I might take some cereal and chef boyardee that I found.
I need to get better. I have a ComedySportz show tomorrow night. A kids show Sunday Morning and a ComedySportz remote on Sunday evening (a remote is where a company hires us to go to them and perform at like dinners, conferences, or church functions.) I need to access my mutant power and heal up!

Back in god old H-Town

So I am back in Houston. I suddenly feel like a whole new chapter of my life is starting. I am getting a new apartment. Starting up on some new opportunities in the fall and so many things have changed. So that suck some that are great.

The ones that suck are pretty shitty though. I had one of the worst days of my life yesterday. Leaving that Lagardia airport and trying so hard not to cry (and failing) was one of the most heartbreaking things that has ever happened to me. I have had some sad shit happen before but nothing affected me like yesterday. So now I am back in Houston. Trying not to think about it.
By the way the title of this blog was supposed to be Back in good old H-town. I decided to go with the typo.

By the way my longform Improv troupe will be performing in Austen at the Out of Bounds Improv Festival tomorrow so you should check it out if you are in town. 8pm at the Salvage Vanguard Theatre. $10. I promise I will be funny and not depressing like this blog post was.

NYC Trip

This trip has been quite interesting. I have enjoyed the festival and I need to make it out to see some more shows. I have to see NOIR: a Shot and a Chaser and also Exodus. I am going to try and make those most definitly before the festival ends.

Alright we have another show tonight. I am pretty excited.

Show Opens Tonight!

My show CHOOSE YOUR OWN PLAY will be having its New York City Premier tonight at 7pm. It will be showing at the CSV Cultural and Educational Center-Milagro which is at 107 Suffolk St. (in between Rivington and Delancey Streets).
The other performance dates are

Monday 8/11 @ 7pm (TONIGHT!)
Wednesday 8/13 @3:15 pm
Friday 8/15 @9:30 pm
Monday 8/18 @5:15 pm
Thursday 8/21 @9:30 pm

Come check out a show. It is a lot of fun and YOU decided what happens. So if you like audience participation, comedy, mythical sea creatures, magic spoons, live sex scenes, pogs, God, Satan, desert islands, or shows with over 80 different endings, than you might like this show.

www.chooseyourownplay.net

uggg.. old angsty post from the past

On a whim I went back and read some posts from the Live Journal I used to keep as a blog my freshman and sophomore years of college and man were they embarrasing.
Every other post was me complaining about why girls don’t like me and the other was me raving about the latest movie I had seen and how much it rocked. I look at those and I am like, man did I really like Matrix Revolutions that much? Because I don’t like it at all now.
All my opinions have changed, for the better too. If I had known myself back then I would have thought that I was an idiot who didn’t know what he was talking about more than half the time.
No wonder girls didn’t like me then.