The Next Thing I Knew...

I had a very interesting weekend, it began when I arrived home from my moonlighting gig around 2am Friday night (technically Sat morning)....

I got out of my cab on the corner because my street was blocked off due to some Big Deal production--and, by Big Deal I mean my friend, Eddie, had been texting me furiously earlier with all of the celebrity (real and potential) sightings he had been having. I also mean Big Deal, in that they had an entire Manhattan street closed down, granted it was 2am, but nonetheless, we're not talking low-budget indie here. In addition, there was a giant 6-story high crane parked on 6th Avenue fixed with a huge stadium-style light shining down my street...at 2am. I waltzed over to the nearest Production Assistant to inquire as to how long this night-shoot-masquerading-as-daytime would last (having been disrupted 2 weeks ago by Ugly Betty shining a spotlight directly into my bedroom window, I was not anxious to have a repeat bad-night's sleep). Luckily, they wrapped very quickly, but it set my weekend off to an interesting start.

Saturday found me paying a visit to my favorite, crazy Polish waxer, Lana. I should note that Lana is quite a talker and a little bit crazy, so sometimes I just let her talk and don't pay complete attention to what she's saying. Note to self, not a great idea to not pay attention to what the woman with the hot wax is saying, as I learned this weekend. Lana was busy working on me, slathering wax and chatting away and the next thing I know hair was being ripped from places on my body where hair has never been ripped from before. By that point, it was too late to say anything, lest I risk being oddly asymmetrical for the next 6-8 weeks. Next thing I know, she's thrusting a mirror in my hand to show off her handiwork. She then asked me if I wanted her to "take a little more off?" I politely declined, while secretly wondering where she was planning to "take a little more from." From what I could see (with my trusty mirror) there wasn't really much left to "take."

The rest of the weekend passed somewhat uneventfully, but after the 12 hours of excitement on Saturday I was pretty glad to have nothing else to report.