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Writers' Room: ‘Couver Comfort
June 19, 2008 - 8:35am — Cassie Pappas
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Seeking ‘Couver Comfort
Reply to: pers-635241846@craigslist.org
Date: 2008-06-19, 9:38AM PDT
There. I said it. Well, not out loud, but at least I’m telling Craig, or rather, his list. And I’m okay with that because whatever is said here doesn’t technically exist unless someone clicks on it. It’s very proverbial-tree-in-the-forest. If only it was the 17th Century Italian Renaissance, I’d be fanning myself in a corset while I tie this message to a pigeon’s ankle. But alas, here I am, in the Hollywood forest, fair maiden of modern times, betrothed to my Lady Macintosh, writing letters seeking comfort in far-off lands.
It’s actually very simple. Los Angeles-based girl seeks familiar comforts of home during three-month stay in Vancouver. I’m doing a re-casting of the immediate players in my life. Looking to rent in these areas:
* short-term faux family
* fully furnished BFF
* friend plus benefits
* sublet pet
I consider this a preemptive measure against the imminent danger of a Bridget Jones attack, i.e., ending up in a facemask, bottle deep in chardonnay, eating Whoppers on a futon crying at So You Think You Can Dance Canada.
* Location: Vancouver
* It’s NOT okay to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests
PostingID:635241846
I sit alone in the empty writers’ room, posting an ad on Craigslist. The wind blows in through the open door and, as the dust settles, a faint, familiar whistle of the Wild West. A tumbleweed rolls by. This place is a ghost town.
Okay, it’s not that bad, but still, everyone has left for Vancouver to shoot Season 6 of The L Word and I feel like orphan Annie. I’m a writers’ assistant without my writers. I’m a ying without my yang. A ship without a sail.
Cue the slow motion montage of Cassie: Eating tofu, alone. Rooftop yoga pose, alone. Brainstorming, alone. Taking notes about nothing, alone. Walking along the beach with pants rolled up at sunset, alone. (I know, sunset strolls on the beach, not part of the job and screams douche commercial, but it seemed montage-appropriate.)
Here’s the good news: Daddy Warbucks, aka Mama Chaiken, is taking me with her as the resident in-house blogger on set. Blogga whaaaat?! (High five!) After weeks of standing outside her house with a “Will Blog for Food” sign, Ilene finally gave in. Some say it was out of sympathy, but I blog to differ.
Now, it’s Vancouver or Bust! I’ve decided it’s exactly like playing Oregon Trail in the fourth grade, but instead of a covered wagon and a broken axel, I’ll fly Alaska Airlines and have a layover. I’ll ration my food and kill a buffalo if I have to. Basically, as long as Mary Beth doesn’t come down with dysentery, I’ll be able to forge the river.
Which brings me to a series of realizations and this ever-growing Canadian to do list:
1) Find Vancouver on a map
2) Find place to live
3) Get passport back from underage jailbait sister who’s been using it as a fake ID
4) Learn how to say ‘about’ like the locals
5) Buy hockey stick(?)
6) Join Celine Dion fan club
7) Blog on
_______________________________________________________________________
Seeking ‘Couver Comfort
Reply to: pers-635241846@craigslist.org
Date: 2008-06-19, 9:38AM PDT
There. I said it. Well, not out loud, but at least I’m telling Craig, or rather, his list. And I’m okay with that because whatever is said here doesn’t technically exist unless someone clicks on it. It’s very proverbial-tree-in-the-forest. If only it was the 17th Century Italian Renaissance, I’d be fanning myself in a corset while I tie this message to a pigeon’s ankle. But alas, here I am, in the Hollywood forest, fair maiden of modern times, betrothed to my Lady Macintosh, writing letters seeking comfort in far-off lands.
It’s actually very simple. Los Angeles-based girl seeks familiar comforts of home during three-month stay in Vancouver. I’m doing a re-casting of the immediate players in my life. Looking to rent in these areas:
* short-term faux family
* fully furnished BFF
* friend plus benefits
* sublet pet
I consider this a preemptive measure against the imminent danger of a Bridget Jones attack, i.e., ending up in a facemask, bottle deep in chardonnay, eating Whoppers on a futon crying at So You Think You Can Dance Canada.
* Location: Vancouver
* It’s NOT okay to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests
PostingID:635241846
I sit alone in the empty writers’ room, posting an ad on Craigslist. The wind blows in through the open door and, as the dust settles, a faint, familiar whistle of the Wild West. A tumbleweed rolls by. This place is a ghost town.
Okay, it’s not that bad, but still, everyone has left for Vancouver to shoot Season 6 of The L Word and I feel like orphan Annie. I’m a writers’ assistant without my writers. I’m a ying without my yang. A ship without a sail.
Cue the slow motion montage of Cassie: Eating tofu, alone. Rooftop yoga pose, alone. Brainstorming, alone. Taking notes about nothing, alone. Walking along the beach with pants rolled up at sunset, alone. (I know, sunset strolls on the beach, not part of the job and screams douche commercial, but it seemed montage-appropriate.)
Here’s the good news: Daddy Warbucks, aka Mama Chaiken, is taking me with her as the resident in-house blogger on set. Blogga whaaaat?! (High five!) After weeks of standing outside her house with a “Will Blog for Food” sign, Ilene finally gave in. Some say it was out of sympathy, but I blog to differ.
Now, it’s Vancouver or Bust! I’ve decided it’s exactly like playing Oregon Trail in the fourth grade, but instead of a covered wagon and a broken axel, I’ll fly Alaska Airlines and have a layover. I’ll ration my food and kill a buffalo if I have to. Basically, as long as Mary Beth doesn’t come down with dysentery, I’ll be able to forge the river.
Which brings me to a series of realizations and this ever-growing Canadian to do list:
1) Find Vancouver on a map
2) Find place to live
3) Get passport back from underage jailbait sister who’s been using it as a fake ID
4) Learn how to say ‘about’ like the locals
5) Buy hockey stick(?)
6) Join Celine Dion fan club
7) Blog on
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Haha!! Awesome. Welcome to
Haha!! Awesome. Welcome to Vancouver (when you get here) it's a great town :) Just remember 'ab-owe-t' unlike your 'ab-aw-t'
~I would enter your sleep if I could, and guard the thing that hounds you, but first you must dream of me.
Shavasana on Skates girl
It's taken me a couple of days to carve out my response. I'm normally not this way, and I don't know why I use your comment pages as a chance for my private journaling time, but there is something about your easy manner in print that feels inviting for me to do so. Here are my thoughts:
1. I'm happy for you.
2. Congratulations.
3. I look forward to visiting you via the world wide web of Our Chart.
4. I'm now gonna go find my own Vancouver.
5. We're gonna call it "Raising Kentucky".
6. And you need some serious love and attention on that yoga.
I bow to you in Canada. With heels on of course.
Namas...
Talent with a capital T
I almost didn't recognize you in the hockey get-up since I didn't hear Savage Garden preachin about drinkin a cherry cola in the background! Then I saw the head nod.
Love the blog. She's got talent, folks!
Can't wait to hear all about the Vancouver action. Keep up the stellar bloggin.
highlight video
LOL!!! Cherry Cola..... Head Nod..... Oh Yeah...
Perhaps while Cassie's away in Vancouver a little highlight video circuit 1990's could mysteriously appear on Our Chart?
Or maybe...
Savage Garden... or maybe rekindle an old flame with Alanis Morissette or perhaps Ryan Adams?
Cassie....
Some notes before you arrive...
• Wreck beach refers to a ship wreck - not to your state of mind (clothes optional)
• the West End is different from the West Side which is altogether different from West Vancouver
• 'The Drive' is where you will find 'the dykes' (ummm yeah, check out the dyke march)
• a loonie = one dollar / a twoonie= two dollars (easy eh?)
• however you say it - we do NOT say "ABOOT"
• the weather forecast in Vancouver: 'cloudy with a chance of showers turning into sunny periods with rain and a continued chance of showers' - yeah it's the same everyday...
haha, love the roller hockey bit..
you are CUTE.
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"Been there, touched that."
Me too...
I'm just sayin'.....
If your prep –work is anything to go by
.... you’ll have a scream!
I’m sure the ladies in Vancouver will put you up/down/whatever?!!!! (Right ladies) Give the girl a place to stay....look she can multi-task!! She is trying her best with the hockey. Well...how “about” it?!!
clever
thought about ghost writing personals ads?
Cute.
Have fun in Vancouver. Looking forward to your blogs.
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"Been there, touched that."
Woo and hoo!
Yay Cassie! I am so looking forward to your blogs this summer. And I request further silliness in the vein of this one!
Silliness. The other white meat.
So jealous...
Can you stow me in your luggage? Vancouver is great but Vancouver Island is even better. You must spend time ALONE on the beach anywhere in the Pacific Rim and watch the amazing sunsets.
You MUST MUST visit Tofino and Ucluelet - Paradise on earth. The surfing here is simply fab. Gawd I am so jealous! You will NEVER be lonely here - People are so so friendly and most importantly, very open-minded. This african girl felt so at home I almost made it my home. I havent ruled it out yet. I think its the sea. I so enjoyed my undergrad years in Canada.
"Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself"
The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran
Hey, Cassie,
are you from Texas? I note an accent in your writing!
Nothing but love
Tex
Ha!
Yaaaay! You get to join the gang in Vancouver! Good stuff. Looking forward to your blogs.
Jealous
Nice check list for your Vancouver trip. I'm so jealous, you will be there before me, but i will join soon.
That one dream place for me.
Keep writing, I want to know all about it.
Enjoy.
Curious4life. EL.
walked right past you
since nobody introduced us. I'd have congratulated you if I'd known. Well done on the picketing for the job. No doubt as a writer, you've had recent experience at that. ;-)
Welcome to the 'couver, Pappas!
You'll love it here. We promise to be nice.
Oh, and, the weather is not our fault...Just remember that when you're cursing about the umpteenth day of "combination rain/cloud/small chance of sunshine" day in a row, in what is supposed to be summer.
That's exciting...
I'm so envious right now. I would love to be traveling to be close to a set let alone on a set instead of stuck on the studio lot inside a hot ass bungalow in this 100 degree Cali valley weather.
Lucky Pappas:) Work hard, Have fun!
Action
Hopefully Vancouver will have a faster pace than line by line Oregon Trail. I used to play that at the Library.
And where is your hockey jersey?? Only a Buffalo Sabres jersey. No other kind is allowed!
Buffalo?
*ahem*
Flyers is the only kind! :P
rovermom :)
Life is a 3D puzzle and everyone has a piece!
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Go Flyers!
Right on, rovermom! I live in NYC and I actually took a bus to Philly to watch them play the Rangers. And the Flyers won, of course. :)
The only sport that I really
The only sport that I really enjoy watching on TV is ice hockey - and I am a Flyers fan for life. My nic-name in high school, with some of the guys, was, Hextall. Guess what position I played in field hockey?
rovermom :)
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Ha!
The only kind of crappy hockey? No, aside from the Flyers, there are a few other crappy teams. :-D
Don't mess
with my flyers! vengeance is painful my friend;)
When will people learn?
The Philly fans are tough. Anyone going to Philly, to see the Eagles or the Flyers, MUST represent the home team, or else!
No if's. No and's. No but's. Must represent Philly.
We got brotherly love...for our team only.
rovermom :)
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Pshaw!
What place were the flyers in last year BEFORE they two of our best? Briere and Biron? Hmm? Hmm?? :-D
Edit Credit
Nice video Cynthia. Way to upstage me! Nah seriously, you've got the Right Stuff.
"THE VIDEO YOU ARE TRYING TO
"THE VIDEO YOU ARE TRYING TO WATCH IS CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE. PLEASE CHECK BACK SOON."
topo bad i didn't even get the time (because i'm late) to watch it...:-(
eh hem...
camera work: cynthia galindo. edit credit: right here gigi. cp + imovie. aren't you proud.
And...
Who knew you were a sound/music supervisor too? Shoot- a jack of all trades! (or a jane, i guess you'd say... a jane of all trades) You're good! :-)
keep an eye on your feet
..... ouch!
WELL Pappas...
Even though it MIGHT be tough and a BIT of an imposition, I'd be willing to help you out with SOME of your needs. ;) After all, we can't have you going all Bridget Jones on us...on the other hand, I have no doubt that you would make it just as entertaining as the BJ movies... ~_^
SERIOUSLY though, get your ass over here and I'll school you in all things Van-city!!
WTF is there a layover from LA to Van? It's only a 3-4 hour flight.
******
"Men should be knitting and women should be running the world."
Hey, Foxy,
I'll give you music tips for a rack in your crib on a Van-city tourista stop - I've got a passport - can't cook - but, I can figure something out to pay for the board with that room!
Nothing but love
Tex
Whoa there Tex...
When you say "music tips," are you talking about my drumming? 'Cause you KNOW I'm down with the whole music appreciation thing...but the erm drumming could use some work... ;)
******
"Men should be knitting and women should be running the world."
Drumming for room and board!
I'm there, Hon!
Nothing but love
Tex
I want my hockey stick back
I want my hockey stick back now, Pappas. And your little dog too.
:D
Hahahah!
You're the best, keep these amousing blogs commin'!
Ahhhhahahaha!
That video is awesome! Looks like you're better on skates then you are at yoga- a sure sign that a pilgrimage out of LA and up to Canukia is meant to be. Congrats! I will send over a copy of the South Park movie so you can get yourself oriented. ;)
OMG
I loooove La Pequena!!! That's one of the best pics ever. Maybe we can get her to wave a Canadian flag (or like with a single Maple Leaf in the background)
Canukia
Dear Kimberlicious, you like South Park, I like South Park... I like Dinos, do YOU like dinos?
I dont know what a Dino is....
But I do like Sadaaaam!
oy
**hands kimberlious a used take-home-left-overs-airplane bag**
rovermom :)
Life is a 3D puzzle and everyone has a piece!
NEW! OurChart Photo Assignment and My Blog
hmm...
Is the bag for leftovers? I've been using it all wrong ...
absolutely!
:D
rovermom :)
Life is a 3D puzzle and everyone has a piece!
NEW! OurChart Photo Assignment and My Blog
Zzzzzing
Good work kimberlicious... that was like 10 points right there
Hockey night
Hehehe. Cassie, all you need to know you can learn from "Hockey Night in Canada."
http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/
Go Cassie
I love reading your blogs we need you in Vancouver!
I love to laugh - you make me laugh!
I'm sure Ilene will let you stay on her couch!
jan
Made My Day
<3333333 I can't believe you said "Oregon Trail in the fourth grade" that was HAWT! OMG I effing loved that game ... in the fourth grade rofl :p
~ insert sudden memory flashbacks from another lifetime here ~
Grab some of those mini board games to play Or! make a cootie catcher and see how many people on set you can get to play - that'd be hella funny. But what do I know, I have a secret fantasy of turning all the lights out in the office and laugh as the suits run around playing hide-n-seek in the dark.
Peace & Love,
P~
Yes!!
So excited that you'll be able to give us the inside scoop from Vancouver!! Amazing!! And oh my god, your video is hysterical (hy-sterical)... please keep up all the good work! (and don't worry, you'll get that Tree pose down)
Special shout out to Grace Moon- thanks for putting up this blog :-)