Rrrrarrrgggh!

Woke up grumpy. Or actually, I woke up pretty okay but now I'm pretty grumpy. Lesson learned: working for free makes me grumpy. I'm doing a v.o. for the Addy awards in exchange for my membership fee, that's cool. But they called and asked me to do a v.o. for another piece of the program, sometime today or tomorrow, and that kinda peeves me. I'm busy! I'm important! Don't they know that? But I don't think it's really about the "free." I tend to get angry everytime the phone rings with work. I panic and think I can't possibly handle it, and it's against my "plan" for the day. That's maybe the real issue--my all-important "plan" and how rigidly I adhere to it. I need to learn to just stop and say "breathe. It'll be okay. This is a good opportunity." I've never worked with this production company before, so this freebie job could actually lead to bigger and better things. And it'll only take me 15 minutes or so. So what's the what, Tension Girl? I swear, I need a course in "Remedial Grown Up."