Can I have a do-over, please?
I get to my audition with plenty of time.  I get sides - I prepare sides.  The fabulous casting people let us know who's in the room, that they're nice, etc.  I get in the room - the clients say "let's pick out a script for her..."

Now, at this point I have two choices.  Choice A:  pipe up and say "Hey, I've been preparing side X - would you like to see it?"  Choice B:  keep my mouth shut, see what they come up with and go with it.

I chose Choice B.  I chose poorly.

Choice B wasn't that bad.  I read it once, they said "let's get you off the page with it, do it again."  I did it again, trying to be more off-page.  They said, "Okay, let's do it again completely without the script."  So I did.  Three more times.  With redirection between each, etc - and let's just say that improving (that's improv-ing, not trying to make better) dialogue on a script I've had one minute to prepare and two read-throughs - well, it could've gone more smoothly.

BUT - I was easygoing, professional, I took the direction (though it didn't result in a stellar performance) and I did the best I could.  And I warned the other girl in the waiting area that they might change scripts on her due to gender.   So there's some karma for me, right?

I'm playing hooky from class.  I was falling asleep on the way home - stopped in Carlsbad to hang out before class, ended up sleeping in the car for an hour - decided I had things to do (which I do, and time-sensitive things too!) and punted.  I'm a little cranky about that audition, I'm going to do my toenails or something.

Oh - and my agent has fewer headshots on the shelf than she did two weeks ago.  How fabulously wonderful is that?  Oh wait, now I can be neurotic about why I'm not getting called in off those submissions....