Texas, Day 1

I turned on the tele this evening and the first thing I heard was a chuckling and pleasant sounding weather man saying, "yeah, there have been a couple of touchdowns reported, and other developing tornados as well. " Holy Shit, this is Texas allright, they're LAUGHING at tornadoes on the news.
I'm from South Dakota, and when serious weather threatens the people on the news get their serious faces on. We have tornadoes, crazy scary thunder storms, and baseball size hailstorms. Basically, I know and have experienced serious weather situations. Never have I seen such reckless disregard for the seriousness of the situation on a broadcast. Remember the scene from Forrest Gump when Luitenant Dan is screaming from the crows nest of Jenny? It's like that, only not crazy pissed off. I went downstairs to check out if there is a room that we should go into if the worst situation should happen and three girls decked out in their sparkling shirt best were on their way out the door, to the BAR. I called after them that no, in fact that was not the disco call, it was a tornado warning.
Welcome to Texas indeed.
The show that I'm here for is going to be amazing. Rehersal today was great and very revealing. Revealing to me that I need to step up my game and get an agent, a vocal coach and a personal trainer. Either that or give up...another exciting prospect because who knows where that would lead me.
However, I have the most amazing internet in my apartment room. I have HBO. I have my own bathroom that gets cleaned by someone else once a week. I've got a little kitchen of my own. I definitely could get used to this.
Seriously, the sirens are going off. I'm going to suck tommorow, but I'll have a TREMENDOUS excuse. F'ing Texas.