I said this world is full of endless abstractions

It’s positively exhausting, standing around preparing for things to happen. For much of the day, I felt like I was in a church, waiting for a wedding to start — hanging around the outskirts of a room, waiting to be sent for and told where to stand while lots of people were doing very complicated things with cameras.

But it wasn’t a wedding. It was a short independent film, and I was an extra.

Caitlin, Aric, and I met up at a lovely old historic mansion on the backside of Capitol Hill, where we lo