Saturday a bunch of us (17 to be exact) went out to this really nice Italian restaurant Ginny had a coupon with for my birthday dinner. It was really great and I am pretty sure everyone had a lovely time. :) Then at midnight, the group of us that are 21 went to Dimples, a karaoke bar within walking distance of Oakwood. That night was a blast! Dimples was really great about the fact that it was my birthday and gave our group a lot of free stuff, including a DVD with the entire nights performances on it. It was a riot going back and not just watching the people in our group, but some random acts as well.
Sunday was my actual birthday as well as the Superbowl, so we played it pretty low key...watched the game and the dreadful half time show (that girl cannot sing live for the life of her....) and Ginny made a cake that we had afterwords. She also went around and collected all my presents and cards and displayed them on the table with my Elvis wine glasses that my brother gave me a while ago but I had been saving them for my birthday. It was so cute! Ginny is an amazing person and I could not ask for a better friend to be spending the semester out here with!
Monday and Tuesday were regular days at Intuition. I prepared a pitch for my boss about the place we went to a couple weeks ago for her to show some people about possibly picking the idea as a show. She said I did a really good job on it so I was happy with that. I also read my first script that wasn't very good (guess there is a first time for everything!) and I learned how to word a letter to the writer, politely telling them their script lacked a plot. That was an experience!
Wednesday I went to the production office for The Doctors for the first time to catch up on some paperwork on the talent that needed to be entered into the system. It was nice to learn new things and get a change of environment for a day, not to mention only having to get there at 10 instead of 6:30. I probably would have gotten all the work finished, but I had to leave early because 11 of us got tickets from Jon to go to the 2nd Annual 3D Creative Arts Awards Ceremony at the Chinese Theater!
Now it sounds really exciting, which I guess it was, however we were sitting outside of a Starbucks waiting to first get our tickets and then wait for them to take us to the theater for over 2 hours. That definitely killed the enthusiasm a little. Once we finally got to our seats (in the second row) it got a lot better. I guess I wasn't all that into it because I don't really know too many people in the field of 3D development other than James Cameron (who wasn't there! he received an award and had his assistant accept it on his behalf...dumb). However, it was being televised for the first time, which is really cool and we got to see clips of everything that won an award which was pretty neat. I now want to see How to Train Your Dragon because of it. It won quite a few awards and looked like a really good movie! There weren't too many famous people there, however, Tom Cavanagh (who plays JD's brother on Scrubs) hosted the show and they honored Lenny Lipton (who wrote Puff the Magic Dragon), also Brian May (from Queen!) accepted an award but I can't remember which one. One other cool thing they did was edit one of Harold Lloyd's movies by adding color to it and making it 3D in honor of him for an award his granddaughter presented, so that was pretty awesome. Overall it was an interesting experience and I think it is an event that will gain enthusiasm over time. Also it will be pretty cool to say I went to an awards show in the Grauman Chinese Theater because I don't think to many average Joes can say that!
That night I went to a cabernet at the M bar with a few friends to see the cast of Spring Awakening perform an assortment of cover songs. That was pretty awesome! I sometimes find it hard to believe such amazing voices can come out of people so young. Also, it made me want to go see Spring Awakening while they are here on tour so a few of us are going to try to get lottery tickets at the earlier show tomorrow. Let you know how that pans out!
The Doctors had a dark week this week so I thought I could spend thursday and friday doing nothing, that was only half true. Thursday I had to catch up on all my homework I had been putting off for class at 7. We are about to start writing our spec script (I am writing one for Modern Family) and we had to present our ideas that day in class. At first I was really nervous that my idea was stupid, but it was actually met with a far amount of enthusiasm and I feel alot better about it now. :) More on the script later.
Friday I bummed around for the morning and started to make calls to my family members to thank them for my birthday cards. I am not done, with three more people to call, but hopefully I can get them all done tomorrow. It is a little hard to call people with the time difference because I dont want to call when people are eating dinner or when they might be in bed already....but enough about that!
Today we went to the Getty Museum, which is definitely the most beautiful museum I have ever been to in my life. Not only is the artwork there incredible, but the landscaping is beautiful! Dad, you would have loved it there. They have one of the prettiest flower gardens ever that looks right out over a view of southern California. We could literally see from the Pacific Ocean to well beyond downtown LA. It was amazing. The picture here isn't a recent one because the display has changed a lot since the picture was taken, but atleast it gives you an idea of the property.
Two noteworthy items: It has been confirmed that James and Oliver Phelps (aka Fred and George Weasley) currently reside in my community. My friend played H.O.R.S.E. with them the other day and got a picture with them. That is the second time they have been spotted at the basketball courts, so I now intend to creep around the courts until I see them.
Also I got an email today about working the Luxury Lounge for the Oscars like I did for the Golden Globes. She told us to send our availability, since it is a 4 day long event, but I don't want to blow off The Doctors, so I told her I can only do Saturday and Sunday. Hopefully that works out because we worked Saturday last time, but we will see how it goes. That would be incredible, you don't get much more famous people than the guests at the Oscars!
AHHHHHH!
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