Well, This Is Exhausting by Sophia Benoit

Author:Sophia Benoit
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Gallery Books
Published: 2021-07-13T00:00:00+00:00

The Greatest Joy on Earth Is Getting Ready to Go Out

I used to work at an improv theater, which doesn’t even break the top ten most embarrassing things about me. I want to reiterate, as I have earlier in this book, that I did not actually do improv. I liked working there, though, because I generally got along with my coworkers, and since I was uninterested in improv or sketch comedy, I felt little to no competition with the people around me, which in the entertainment industry is pretty rare.I Most of the time, when you work with and especially for people who are doing the job you want to have, you feel like total shit every minute of the day, because that could be you, but it simply is not. But I did not want to do improv, so I was safe from becoming an embittered front-desk crone.

At the improv theater job, one of my frequent tasks was training interns/giving them an orientation of sorts. I’d worked there longer than most other people at my level (shout out to flexible hours, a casual dress policy, and snacks) and I’d done pretty much every job at every part of the organization. Plus I enjoyed training people because it required talking and I love talking. I had always wanted to be a campus tour guide, and this was basically that.II

One of the interns I was tasked with training was Kelsey. Here’s what you need to know about Kelsey. She’s hot, she’s blonde, she’s an actor, and she’s from Utah. At least, that’s what I knew about Kelsey when I met her. I was immediately like, “This is not a match.” Being hot is one thing (and one which I take personally), but she was also younger than me? And, again, blonde. I felt in my bones that this was not a person who was aligned with my values, which were: being mediocre-looking and the low-level hair maintenance popular in the Midwest. I’ve watched a lot of kids’ movies and they never make the hot young lady who is trying to marry your dad a brunette, okay?? I want to be very clear that I wasn’t rude to her or anything, but I also wasn’t planning on being friends. Some interns you love, some you mostly ignore, some you give little errands to all day so that they stay away from you because they’re kind of creepy. And some make you seethe with envy.

Kelsey was new to LA, and so other, more tolerant people at my workplace were always trying to invite her to go out with them and get drinks. Mostly this was because she was hot, and not out of a great interest in actually getting to know her. (Sorry to beat this dead horse, but I’m really wanting you to get the picture here!!! She’s gorg!) Unfortunately for all my thirsty coworkers, I was—surprisingly—the present authority on Fun Times for Young Ladies in LA, which meant that I alone had good suggestions of places she should go and bars she should try.

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