One Year - Today!

Yes! Tis true! ... last year on 03 August 07 I boarded the plane from Amsterdam to La La Land ... I survived ...

one year in America;
one year surrounded by Americans;
one year working with Americans;
one year of sex w/ Americans;
one year in Bush-land;
one year of capitalism;
one year away from socialism;
one year w/o health care,
one year of broken bones,
one year of tripping again and again (literately);
one year surviving my first major earthquake (5.4);
one year w/o hay fever;
one year of Eurovision from afar & not being able to vote;
one year of auditions;
one year of student films (I did one Schindler's List - I played a Nazi);
one year of TV commercials: did one for Garnier Fructis;
one year of Extra-ing (Background Acting): Boston Legal, Nip/Tuck and He's Not That Into You;
one year of plays: 12 Angry Men, MLM, The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told, The Foreigner, Orange Lemon Egg Canary, Fat Pig, Late Night Gong Show, Agrippina;
one year of Stage Managing;
one year of Hollywood Fight Club;
one year of Celebration Theatre;
one year of 2 apartments: Cahuanga/Santa Monica (on Theatre Row) & Gardner/Sunset (near D.G.A. - Director's Guild of America);
one year of many jobs: coverage (reading scripts) for Here! Network, Bodyfactory, Nick&Stef's Steak Restaurant (was fired), NASH Entertainment, Temping for W.G.A. (Writer's Guild of America);
one year of getting fatter;
one year of getting balder;
one year away from friends;
one year of making new ones;
one year of leaving my French lover behind in Amsterdam;
one year of getting to know forgotten friends again;
one year of getting to or trying to understand Hollyweird;
one year attending my 1st gay wedding;
one year of figuring out WHY WHY WHY did I move here;
one year of skipping down that yellow brick road to my dreams;
one year of knowing I'm on the right path ...

One Year - TODAY!