 I didn't give you a recap last month of my auditions and it was partially because I didn't get that many but I thought I should tell you why I didn't get that many and when I don't get that many auditions because that does happen. Welcome to this week's vlog! Four of the auditions were voiceover from my agency and then one of them was for a tech company in New Bay Area that does videos for their products and then I did book a job but I didn't have to audition for it which was nice but it was for somebody that I worked with previously and I just wanted to tell you like sometimes you don't get that many auditions so this month was one of those times. I am a little upset that that happened because I should have concentrated more on self-submissions but I also got a meeting with an agency this month which of course is really great because I've been working at it a lot. I self-submitted the first week of September and then after that I pretty much stopped because I was featured on YouTube in September so in my head I was like oh let me make sure that I am making good videos and you make sure that I'm publishing all of the time and I also got more into editing videos more creatively and so that's why I didn't self-submit very much. And another thing that I focused on a lot this month was submitting to agencies and doing tons of research. When I do research for an agent like right now I am trying to get an agent in LA at the atrical agent specifically. I usually start on IMDbPro and I look up a show or an actor and then that puts me in a you know in a research hole of seeing what other clients they have what films they've worked on what relationships they have and sometimes I can sit down and do research for an hour and then at the end of it realize that that agent doesn't accept any unsolicited emails or letters or whatever like you have to have a referral in order for them to even consider you or they would have to approach you. So the ones I'm doing of course are the ones that accept emails and this past month I submitted to two or three agents and one of them did contact me back saying that they were interested in representing me in all of California which meant if I signed with them I would have to drop MDT in San Francisco who is my current agency and I was like okay well if they can get me more opportunities or the same as MDT in San Francisco and then on top of that also LA and all of California then I'd be willing to. So I set up a call with them and during the call I essentially told them that I said what relationships do you have in the San Francisco Bay Area because I do get some work from my current agency MDT and I'd be willing to drop them if you could get me the same or more opportunities in San Francisco because I do want to continue to work out of LA and San Francisco so I don't want to drop MDT if they're not ever going to get me any jobs you know in San Francisco. So I asked them do you have good relationships with any particular casting offices in the San Francisco Bay Area and I because I've auditioned for all of these casting offices for a while now I was expecting to just you know hear a familiar name and be like okay cool they do know about the San Francisco market but no they weren't able to tell me that they had a good relationship with a single casting office in San Francisco so I took that as a not so great sign because why would you want to represent me in all of California if you don't actually have any relationships in the San Francisco Bay Area and also with this office like you weren't ever allowed to get your own jobs anytime you had an opportunity you had to immediately send the contract and all the information to the agency and they would handle that which I do not like because I do like to get my own work and sometimes there are smaller projects passion projects and I don't want to have to go through the agency in order for me to work so I said thank you so much I'm going to continue looking then because I do want to keep working in both places so um yeah I don't have too much to update you on and uh the holiday season is coming which means that there's going to be a lot less things filming of course during the holidays and right before the holiday so um I'm at Trader Joe's now because um all day today I've been feeling like nothing sounds fun it just feels weird I used to have these days all of the time last winter and I feel like because fall is coming this is what it's feeling like but I came to Trader Joe's and I bought these pumpkin spice batons it's like white chocolate with pumpkin spice it's really good this is waking me up a little bit but um thank you so much for watching especially if you're still watching at this point thank you so much and um next week's next week's vlog will definitely be different