It looks like I'm not leaving yet after all because you can't enter hungry if your passport expires in less than six months.

So in L.

A.

For another week and I'm headed to santa Monica.

The far away mystical lands that no one in Los Angeles ever likes to go to because it's across four or 5 to get an expedited passport right now.

Mm hmm.

Right.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Mm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm.

Yeah.

Mm hmm.

Because of this whole passport situation, I'm basically going to be a week behind and fight Corio compared to the rest of the cast which you know, doesn't give me anxiety at all even though most of the other castes are professional martial artists and champions.

Yeah.

So luckily our director Ron yuan hit up his friend.

So she and asked him to treat me here in Los Angeles.

So we've either been going to martial arts gym or training at my home.

Let me tell you, your girl thought she was in shape.

Who are using a whole lot of muscles.

I did not know I had.

You could do.

Yeah.

Good, good.

What really?

Are you sure about that?

You really want to go outside?

Alright, let's go for a walk.

Okay.

Yeah.

Mm hmm.

Look at that spooky time.

Such a nice spooky town spooky over that house.

I'm not staying away from their spooky haunted house right there right there ghost is going to be cursed and alright, baby girl tell us, tell us what we're doing right now, let me tell you the tale.

Oh we're going to a place called R.

E.

This person is talking about.

Oh my God okay.

This is what it's like driving in L.

A.

People.

We're going to have to get our loving records Because we live in Los Angeles where it's 72° year round.

There we go.

I see your little finger wobbling about.

I'm doing a lot of zoom's now that I've figured out what the zoom is.

This bit.

Got the zombies.

And so then after our ai we're doing twin time right now right now.

Which is basically where we force each other to go on errands that we don't want.

So we go together.

So first we went to get a covid test or she did and everyone was like okay I guess this is just a bit with her.

And then we went to the commissary and had coffee and split tacos Michelle did not finish her arugula.

No, I didn't.

We got it still in my teeth though.

Mm hmm.

You know I stopped as much as many leaves in my mouth as I could.

You know what's crazy is that?

People come in here and they're like, I want to spend the night outside for a few nights and then they just come in here and drop a ship ton of money to sleep outside.

The people who shop here like dirt when they could pay for a hotel.

Probably with that money that they spend on like a tent.

They're not afraid of bugs.

Which I don't understand.

I know it's really hard for me to understand this place.

Mm hmm.

Well because I'm not leaving my schedule is the most empty I have ever seen it.

Which is both incredibly relaxing and terrifying at the same time.

And I'm gonna have plenty of time this next week as I wait for my passport to come in to work on my script.

My screenplay, I currently have a show with daddy netflix and development And that script is due on 18 November.

So I've been hacking away with my co writer Maggie Levin.

One of the things I learned from Reddit that I really adopted is this one screenwriter said every three months he or she turns out a new script and I love the assignment.

Let me tell you your girl loves an assignment.

She loves homework.

So I thought this was a brilliant way to be held accountable for churning out material.

I have felt incredibly insecure as a solo writer for a long time.

I very often hide in writing partnerships because that way you celebrate together and you can also be demoralized together versus when I have a piece of work that's purely my own.

I don't feel like I have someone else to also hide behind.

So it was really important to me last year that I strengthened my confidence as a solo writer.

So I adopted this Reddit ear's rule every three months I turn out a script.

It's been amazing.

I will say having the discipline to write.

Making it a habit, you know, has been really empowering.

I think creatively there's a couple of scripts I've come out with where I'm like, okay, I don't really, I don't really see the point in that I don't think I need to work on that anymore.

But it was a fun ride.

I learned a lot.

Thanks next.

The only thing crazier than writing which is sitting in front of paper or a computer and hallucinating is reading, which is also sitting in front of a computer or a paper.

And hallucinating.

Writing is purely self generative.

Hello, hallucinations.

Whereas reading is absorbing somebody else's hallucinations, fascinating ship.

Tell us what game we're playing, we're playing, settlers of Catan, which I've only lost at twice interesting.

Okay, you made it seem like and I want to have any every other time it's what it seemed like.

I wish you wouldn't understand I lost twice, but I've only played it once.

Let's go.

Yeah.

Okay.

You know what I just realized is my nightmares are getting so sneaky and advanced.

So I'm a pretty lucid dreamer.

If I am having a nightmare, I can normally find something to read, realize it's gibberish and then wake myself up almost all of my nightmares in the last year have occurred where I'm right here.

I think I'm awake and I think I'm experiencing something horrifying and so I have no reason to suspect I might actually be asleep.

Although I will say one time I had a dream, I was paralyzed in bed.

A lot of paralysis actually.

And I called my friend Michelle and Jason who lived close by, I was like struggling to get the phone and call them because they were, there's someone after me or there was someone in my house and said, hey please help, there's someone in my house, please help.

And I was paralyzed here and I somehow like was trying to move, ended up on the floor.

And Jason, my friend Jason is basically ted lasso.

When we first watched the ted lasso tv show all of us couldn't stop laughing because we were like this is Jason.

So in my dream Jason and Michelle come over and Jason goes, what are you doing on the floor?

Get up, the police are coming and I was like that's too mean, Jason would never speak to me that way.

Absolutely not.

This is a dream.

And I woke up so I think my barometer for dreams now has to be, where's Jason?

Let me talk to him if he's, if he's anything even remotely unlike Ted lasso, this is a fucking dream, I'm out of here.

But no, actually I'm very terrified by, by my dreams evolving, I don't like that, I don't like my nightmares evolving, no, thank you, I don't want that, I don't want that.

No, no, no.