Friday, June 09, 2006

pigtails and porn stars

i've got the day off. lots of errands planned. this morning i'm blog surfing while listening to the morning show on 93X, where they're interviewing Mandy Starr, a local porn star.

can you search on monster.com for movie roles like this? or do you find an actual agent?

it makes me wonder what other jobs i could have attempted, if i didn't get into the payroll industry. which is, by the by, quite a sedate and boring business, but one at which i do see all kinds of varied jobs. consultants, exotic dancers, waiters, lab rat attendants, people who make stained glass. it's interesting to see what different people do for a living.

one of the gals at work showed up the other day with her newly dyed bright red locks pulled into pigtails. it looked so cute that when i got home yesterday, i had to put mine up too. my hair's much longer than tish's is.

at what point did i stop wearing my hair in pigtails? how old was i, did i make a decision that pigtails were childish? at what point did i not take the same road as Ms. Starr?

sometimes i look back on the life i've lived and feel that it's so mundane and boring that i don't even want to think about it. i'm a cog in the wheel; i'm a gear, i'm a leg on the table.

then again, if this cog didn't show up every day, things would be difficult. the world wouldn't run the in quite the same pattern. i'm sure that my teammates at work are pulling together just fine, and that it's going to be a normal old friday for them. it's not going to be a life-changing experience to not have me there, but it's not going to be the same, either.

this morning i'm taking a break from my strenuous bitching schedule to appear in blogland. this morning Mandy Starr took a break from her strenous moaning schedule to appear on a radio show with three radio personalities.

what's the difference? i'm sitting here in pigtails, listening to a porn star talk about orgasm-induced foot cramps. two hours from now, what's not to say that she's not sitting in pigtails, reading this blog?

the world really is as small as my parents always postulated it was.

course, that being said, i'm still rather glad that i'm sitting here, in my pigtails, being content in the fact that my job doesn't involve lube or lingerie. it's the little things in life, really.

3 comments:

dan said...

I heard Mandy on my way into work this AM.

I bet she does read your blog. :)

Jacq said...

Ok so the important thing is did she have a remedy for orgasm induced foot cramps? I um, want to know for um, a friend. ;)

Personally I'm glad you chose payroll over porn, and even more glad that you choose to write in your spare time.

ombren said...

no, there was no remedy...the question posed was "have you ever been hurt while in the porn industry?" and she said the worst was always the foot cramps. perhaps she just needs more potassium... (;

and mandy, if you're reading, stop lurking already and comment!