Me, I figure as each breath goes by, I only own my mind...

Lin_See — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 01:58:00 GMT

The post-premiere Sunday evening activities were tame in comparison to the morning. Ann came over and met up with us for dinner down at the pizza place. It's nice to have yet another friendly face from home around. She's living about 2 miles from Beverly Hills in a really nice apartment complex with 4 random stranger roommates. She seems to like it okay, but I don't think it's the kind of situation I would enjoy. I think she's probably a little more independent about all this than I am though.

We spent the rest of the evening watching the MTV Movie Awards and playing Guitar Hero. A game at which I totally suck. I finally made it through 'Mother' and then got brave and tried 'Evenflow.' Not. Even. Close.

Matt is really good at it and Luke is way better at it than I am. Brianna spent the evening writing script coverage of what appears to be one of the worst scripts ever written.

At any rate, she finished the coverage and found out this morning that she got the internship for 2 days a week, which is FANTASTIC news.

Today we attempted to go to the Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson at CBS, Ann came along for that adventure too:

Unfortunately, we weren't able to get in so no show for us. But since CBS is right next the Farmer's Market we headed over there for a late lunch. Farmer's Market is a neat place and it's nice to say we've been there, but it's not really a place I think I would want to spend a lot of time at. I do want to check out The Grove at some point though, it's right behind the Farmer's Market.

We ate there and the food was okay, I got about as close to cashew chicken as I think I will get out here in California:

It was some kind of Orange Chicken and it wasn't that great, but I guess I can't complain. I mean we did invent cashew chicken in SpringPatch so I can't expect anything to even come close to it. And I couldn't for the life of me find crab rangoon. Grrrr...

It was a pretty good day, but I really just want to take a nap. I had my first REAL encounter with L.A. traffic today, but I think most of it was just the fact that CBS is in a place that I thought was really hard to get to. And when we left I got totally lost trying to find Vine St. again, I never did find it. We ended up really far away from where we needed to be, way past Melrose and in a part of town that I don't think was very safe. But we did manage to get back on the 101 just in time for Rush Hour. My nerves were really shot by the time we got back. I did not like driving in that part of town with a car full of people at. all. It was way too much for me.

As you've probably guessed, no I did not work at my internship today. Why?

Well, in case you had your head buried in the sand for the last 24 hours, you know that the Universal Studios backlot was on fire for a large portion of the day yesterday. And yes, the fire was very close to where I work. So, yesterday, Scott called and told me not to go in today as everyone would be working from home. Bummer for me because, yes, I'm crazy, I like the work...but it's all good because I get to go in tomorrow morning. We have temporary space to work, but I suspect most of my job tomorrow will include cleaning up the trailer and getting it back up and going so the writers and producers can be back working in it by the afternoon or Wednesday morning. That's fine with me, I get to work and that's what I'm here for after all!!! I guess that probably sounds ridiculous but I am really having an awesome time out here and it's mostly because of the internship. I mean all of the other things are amazing too, but I have to admit that Los Angeles is not what I would consider my dream place of residence. I don't think I want to live here for a long-term permanent basis (by this I mean no longer than 10 years, if even that long). It's too...cluttered and difficult. It's a high maintenance city and I know there are tons and tons of beautiful places out here, but I have yet to really see them. Now, if I could somehow figure out a way to snag a gig in Vancouver...well, I just might never return!

TOTAL MILES TODAY: 35

TOTAL GAS COST: $400 -that's total overall trip, today I paid $4.27/gallon

TODAY'S THEME SONG: 'I Am Mine' - Pearl Jam

Oh yah, go read Brianna's blog about her internship here:

http://coalserver.missouristate.edu/blogs/thunderroadpictures/default.aspx

And Luke's:

http://coalserver.missouristate.edu/blogs/workingonacontinent/default.aspx

Eureka! An Internship at NBC/Universal : Traffic

Me, I figure as each breath goes by, I only own my mind...