I’ve had a pretty full and exciting day today. Here’s what it looked like.

10:10am – Audition for a series of short films with Vancouver Film School

10:30-12:30 –  Grocery shopping for ingredients for a green juice (to help me beat a cold I succumbed to on Sunday and Monday) and Cleaning my apartment in preparation for an annual inspection from my landlords (having just finished a run of a show… it was pretty bad)

2:00pm – Meeting with talent agent Dean Osmon of Maijah lewk Talent

4:30-5:45 – Meeting with my actor’s goal setting group.

6:30pm – Audition for the play “A Particular Class of Woman”

7:20pm – Audition for the play “A Behanding in Spokane”

8:30pm – Visiting my library to pick up some books on play-writing to peruse before setting to work on writing the second draft of the one-act play I wrote as part of my thesis for my theatre minor.

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Since beginning the artist’s way, I have become much more conscious of synchronicity… and I experienced some today.

My phone was running low on battery by the time I made it to Starbucks for my goal setting group, and I planned to plug it into a wall when I got there. Unfortunately we ended up sitting at a table in the middle of the cafe, and I couldn’t plug it in. I thought I’d be fine. But I was wrong. I tracked out my route to the audition on my phone and jumped on a bus. I glanced quickly at the next bus I would have to take, and then realized that I was cutting it sort of close. Then the first bus I was on stopped prematurely (it was its’ last run of the night). I got off and run for the next bus, but I was too late by about 30 seconds. I watched it pull away. My phone was dead. I had no way of tracking another route,  and I hadn’t even written down the address for the damn thing. I did know that it was close to the Broadway skytrain station. So I ran to the nearest skytrain terminal (about 5 minutes away) and jumped on. I didn’t know what I was doing. I just acted. When I got to the Broadway station I saw a plug on the wall near the escalator. No one around? I pulled out my charger and plugged my phone in. I wasn’t even sure what time it was. Maybe it was already too late? It took what felt like an eternity for my phone to turn on. When it did I saw the time 8:21pm. Was this still a possibility? I quickly opened the map ap and found a route – a bus leaving in 2 minutes would get me there on time. I unplugged my phone and ran out of the terminal for the bus stop. I crossed the street. I could see the bus coming up the street. There were people waiting at the bus stop. Could I make it? YES! I did it. The bus brought me about a 3 minute run away from the audition, and I arrived at the door just as the casting director was opening it to get me. 2 minutes late, but no one was the wiser. Is that synchronicity, or what?

The audition was a ton of fun (I got to dance to the song “Mercy”) and I left feeling confident and ready for my second audition – which went even better than the first.

Here’s the crazy thing. As I stood, at that terminal with my phone plugged into the wall, waiting for my phone to turn on – a quote that a friend of mine recently told me rang in my ears: “All that is, could not be otherwise.” I reminded myself that stressing would not get me there any quicker, and if I ended up not making it then I wasn’t intended to make it. All the same, I sent a prayer up to the universe and the energy that surrounds me to help me to get there on time.

In “reality” I had no business making that audition… but I did. Just something to think about.