The Law&Order : Delayed Flight = Amtrak (?!)

Alice and her freakin' Wonderland haven't had half of the adventures I've had in the past eighteen hours.

Last Night:
8:04pm -- email from Emmy/Oscar winning producer.  Directing an L&O.  Asks me to come in to last-minute producer session for guest star.
8:05pm -- I curse the fact that I'm in Florida for the day
8:09pm -- Get email from Fabulous Manager re: L&O
8:10pm -- Get text from Fabulous Manager re: L&O
8:13pm -- Get & take call from Fabulous Manager re: L&O, stain phone with wing sauce.
8:29pm -- Re-route plans to fly to LAX, have [the morons at] U.S. Airways schedule ticket to NYC.

Today:

7:55am -- Wake up and pack
9:20am -- Arrive at Tampa International via happily chatting Mom
1:05pm -- Arrive (LATE) for connecting flight in Philadelphia, my nemesis.
1:23pm -- Sprint to F gate and make it two minutes pre-10 minute cutoff time.
1:24pm -- Realize U.S. Airways should go to hell, after realzing the flight is delayed until 3 o'clock.
1:26pm -- Call Fabulous Manager.  Third 'late-via-flight' audition scenario.  She's not surprised, guessed it would happen.
1:32pm -- Get forwarded email from L&O casting.  My audition was at 4, which I'd never make.  They're going until 4:30.
1:46pm -- Sulk with Significant Other at the Airport pub.  Consume large dark beer and vomit-worthy plastic Caesar.
2:15pm -- Go back to gate.  Become informed of the TRAIN option, leave Significant so he can collect bags at Laguardia airport.  Sprint out of airport.
2:23pm -- Bite nails in back of speeding PA cabbie.
2:45pm -- Arrive at Philadelphia Train Station (which I hate, for reasons I'm attempting to black out of my memory) see train at 3:03 to Manhattan.  
2:46pm -- Stop self from kicking kiosk at the realization that a ticket is $87.00
2:27pm -- Splurge an extra $23 for a Business class ticket.  F#*@.

I am now sitting in a [relatively but point-moot] comfortable seat, charging my dead iPhone, and grinding my teeth as we pass Trenton.  

We arrive at Penn Station at exactly 4:30pm.  Law&Order is at Chelsea Piers.  It's rush hour.  And they say they'll be wrapping up BY 4:30, which leads one to infer that on a Friday of all days the producers aren't going to be sticking around for longer than they absolutely have to.

I'm guessing it'll take a total of 13 minutes, if I'm lucky, to make it from Penn to Chelsea.  Will they remain?

Luckily, I have the director's email... which goes to his Blackberry... so maybe, maybe MAYBE... he'll hold off, oh I don't know, six massively massive network executives so I can come in and read a few lines for them.

What we actors do for "IT".

Would be in awe of the foliage if she didn't want to BITE someone, Ashley Avis

Comments

[Lonni]

Oh, Ashley!! I feel your pain. I could get you from Philly to NYC ten ways, and that was the fastest for sure. It was just an impossible situation.

I trek from Philly to NYC, and I often find myself doing a cost benefit analysis. I went all the way to Brooklyn to do BG on As the World Turns. I told myself it was a fabulous adventure. It was actually just one of the most tiresome and frustrating days I've had in a long time.

I LIKE going to NYC!! I LIKE learning my way around on MTA!! I LIKE looking at the jumbotrons in Times Square!! I LUUURRRVVE acting!!!!

I HATE that I'm not getting more pay off for my efforts.

You are fortunate. Remember that.

[Justine]

I'm a bit sleep-deprived myself today, so I initially read this sentence:

"Re-route plans to fly to LAX..."

and I thought it said "Re-route plane to LAX."

LOL. If anyone could re-route a plane, you could!!! :-D

Seriously though, I'm really sorry. Transportation problems are the worst. As much as we know it's out of our control when it's happening, it still turns into a hair-pulling, nail-biting nightmare. :(